Overview

• In his first plenary as STF president, Edson Fachin put nationwide cases from Uber and Rappi on the docket to decide whether platform drivers are employees, beginning with reports and oral arguments.
• Prosecutor General Paulo Gonet formally urged the Court to reject recognition of an employment bond, citing constitutional protections for free enterprise and prior STF understanding on platform work outside the CLT.
• Italy’s Court of Appeal in Catanzaro declined a pretrial detention request for ex-assessor Eduardo Tagliaferro, ordered him to surrender passports, restricted his movement, and noted Brazil’s extradition request remains under review.
• Alexandre de Moraes ordered penitentiary authorities to provide daily reports on electronic ankle monitoring for several supervised defendants, including Chiquinho Brazão and Daniel Silveira, to tighten compliance checks.
• Separate PF and STJ actions in Teresina led to searches and precautionary measures against a state appellate judge and lawyers in a case on alleged sentence manipulation, as the STJ also issued a note backing ex-minister Benedito Gonçalves after U.S. visa cancellations.