China adopted new rules on Friday which impose new restrictions on the country’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and individual users. The rules, called the Decision to Strengthen the Protection of Online Information, were adopted by China’s highest legislative body, the National People’s Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) , after one reading and without any public consultation. [...]
Lawyers representing the Mexican government asked the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in an amicus brief to uphold a lower court ruling that blocked enforcement of a section of the 2010 Arizona immigration law SB 1070 that prohibits the harboring of illegal aliens. In their brief, Mexico’s lawyers argued that the prohibition harms diplomatic [...]
A Moscow court on Friday acquitted prison doctor Dmitry Kratov of all charges stemming from the death of whistleblowing lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in 2009. A Russian judge found that there was no evidence showing a causal link between Kratov’s negligence and Magnitsky’s death. Dr. Kratov was the head of medical services at Butyrka Prison, where [...]
Apple Inc disclosed on Friday an agreement to withdraw patent claims against Samsung in the US District Court for Northern California for a new Samsung phone, Galaxy S III Mini, that the South Korea-based company said it was not offering for sale in the US market. Samsung began sales of the Mini in Europe this [...]
A Beijing court ordered Apple, Inc., on Thursday to pay damages of 1.03 million yuan, or $165,908 USD, to eight Chinese writers and two companies for copyright infringement. The Beijing No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court , a regional court directly below China’s appellate level courts, held that software available on Apple’s app store contained unlicensed [...]
China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) on Friday passed amendments to a law allowing elderly parents to file suit against their adult children if they feel they have been neglected or abandoned by them. While the law mandates that adult children must visit and assist elderly parents on a regular basis, it provides no express provisions [...]
Former Galleon Group hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam on Friday agreed to pay approximately USD $1.45 million to settle an ongoing civil lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) . After the SEC charged Rajaratnam with insider trading in 2009, the US District Court for the Southern District of New York convicted him [...]
Hobby Lobby, Inc. and Mardel Inc. announced Thursday that they will not comply with Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s order that the companies provide employees with coverage for contraceptives under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) . The two businesses, a craft store and religious bookstore, are owned by a Christian family, and are represented [...]
Egypt’s chief prosecutor on Thursday ordered an investigation into allegations that opposition leaders were inciting supporters to overthrow the country’s president Mohammed Morsi , which amounts to treason. The investigations are against Mohammed El-Baradei, a Nobel Peace laureate and former head of the UN nuclear agency, former Foreign Minister Amr Mousa and Hamdeen Sabahi . [...]
Cambodia is misusing its judicial system in order to suppress dissent and thereby undermine justice, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday amid two court rulings against three individuals. In the first case, the Court of Appeals of Cambodia upheld a lower court’s 20-year sentence against two individuals, Born Samnang and Sok Sam Oeun, [...]
