Apple filed a motion in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Wednesday requesting that the court sanction Samsung Electronics by ruling in Apple’s favor in the ongoing patent litigation between the two companies. Apple filed the motion with Judge Lucy Koh, accusing Samsung of “litigation misconduct” after Samsung publicly released [...]
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced two new economic sanctions on Iran’s oil exports that aim to cut the country’s financial transactions with the Chinese and Iraqi banks allegedly doing business with Tehran. In the first of these orders President Obama explained that the penalties against Iranian energy and petrochemical sectors were designed “to [...]
Japanese authorities on Wednesday began a criminal investigation into last year’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster . The Fukushima Prosecutor accepted a criminal complaint filed in June by more than 1,300 people against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for causing the catastrophe and for the plaintiffs’ resulting radiation. The Fukushima Nuclear-Plant Plaintiffs residential group named at [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Mais Qandeel, an LL.M. Graduate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is the author of an eight-part series that explores which party should bear the legal responsibility of providing medical and health care for Palestinian children affected by Israel’s use of white phosphorus bombs. This series will explore Palestinian history, [...]
The widow and daughter of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday asked a French court to investigate what they believe to be the murder of the former Palestinian leader. The allegations of Suha and Zahwa Arafat stem from a Swiss institute’s report suggesting that Yasser Arafat was poisoned by a radioactive substance before his death in a [...]
The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) infringed on the authority given to state regulators by the Clean Water Act , the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) and other surface-mining laws when the agency established water quality criteria for coal mining [...]
Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday published a report holding the Syrian government responsible for human rights violations in Aleppo that AI claims amount to crimes against humanity. “All-out repression: Purging dissent in Aleppo, Syria” documents how security forces and militias routinely used live fire against peaceful demonstrations in and around Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria, [...]
Three members of the Russian feminist activist group Pussy Riot went on trial on Monday for charges relating to their performance of a protest song in a Russian Orthodox church. The three women have been charged with “hooliganism” for their performance of the song, which sparked public outrage after a video of the performance was [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday released a 56-page document accusing Myanmar security forces of human rights abuses against a minority religious community in June. “The Government Could Have Stopped This”: Sectarian Violence and Ensuing Abuses in Burma’s Arakan State alleges that government security forces committed killings, rape and mass arrests following an outbreak of [...]
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia on Monday struck down a state law that prohibited out-of-state residents from circulating petitions for third-party candidates. Virginia law requires that candidates from parties that did not receive at least ten percent of statewide votes in a recent election to obtain a petition with 10,000 [...]
