Six European countries, including France, the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Italy, on Tuesday agreed on joint legal action against Google over its privacy policy . The countries claim that 13 months ago when Google merged 60 separate privacy policies, including email, video, social-networking and additional services, that Google failed to inform customers about [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday refused to approve Citigroup Inc.’s proposed $590 million settlement of a shareholder lawsuit, questioning the reasonableness of some details of the agreement. Judge Sidney Stein requested that Citigroup and its shareholders, the bank’s opponents in this case, revisit the [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Saturday that ReDigi Inc.’s “pre-owned” digital music sales infringed on Capitol Records LLC’s music copyrights. ReDigi’s online service allowed customers to use its platform to buy and sell “used” digital music originally purchased from Apple Inc.’s iTunes service. Judge Richard [...]
The Arkansas House of Representatives on Monday voted 52-45 to override Governor Mike Beebe’s veto of a bill that requires voters to provide photo identification. Since the state senate voted March 27 to override the veto, the bill now becomes law under the requirements of Article VI of the Arkansas Constitution . The bill provides [...]
The court-appointed administrator responsible for determining and paying out damages to individuals affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill , on Monday asked the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to dismiss a lawsuit by British Petroleum (BP) over how damage claims are determined. Last month, BP appealed the court’s earlier [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari in one new case on Monday. In Atlantic Marine Construction Co. v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas the court will consider whether its decision in Stewart Organization, Inc. v. Ricoh Corp. changed the standard for enforcement of clauses that designate an alternative federal forum, [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist John McAvoy, Widener University School of Law Class of 2013, explains how public policy affected the outcome of Lebron v. Wilkins… The Power of Public Policy The notion of drug testing welfare recipients has recently become a highly publicized and debated issue. Newspapers and blogs across the country have helped fuel this [...]
Amnesty International (AI) criticized the government of Kuwait on Monday for executing three men convicted of murder. The three men, a Saudi national, a Pakistani national and a stateless Bidun man, were convicted on separate murder charges before being hanged outside the Central Prison on Monday. This marks the first execution in Kuwait since 2007 [...]
The Myanmar government must investigate and hold accountable those involved in the deadly violence in the Mandalay Region in March, in which an estimated 40 people were killed and 61 more were wounded, Human Rights Watch said Monday. The attacks were the result of ongoing clashes between Muslims and majority Buddhists in Meiktila. HRW analyzed [...]
The Supreme Court of India on Monday rejected efforts by drug maker Novartis AG to patent an updated version of the company’s leukemia-treating drug Glivec. The court reasoned that subject product “beta crystalline form of Imatinib Mesylate (the ingredient in Glivec), fails in both the tests of invention and patentability” and thus, appellant’s appeal would [...]
