The Constitutional Court of Germany on Monday announced that it will hear a claim brought in opposition to the 500 billion euro (USD $632 billion) European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the fiscal pact. The main opponent of the agreements is the leftist party Die Linke which asked the court to consider whether the ESM and [...]
A federal judge on Friday issued an injunction against Samsung Electronics to stop the sale of its Galaxy Nexus smartphone in the US. Judge Lucy Koh for the US District Court for the Northern District of California found that Apple is likely to succeed on the merits in the litigation and would likely suffer irreparable [...]
The US government on Friday dropped all charges against a Kuwaiti national being held in Guantanamo Bay . Faiz al Kandari, who previously lost a petition for habeas corpus, was never formally brought to trial. His case was never referred to a military tribunal . The decision to drop the charges came shortly after a [...]
North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue on Sunday vetoed a bill that would have lifted a ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the state. Fracking is the process of injecting a high pressured mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground to break through rock and release oil and natural gas. Most major oil [...]
The Libyan government on Monday released four International Criminal Court (ICC) staff members who had been detained for nearly four weeks. The release was announced while the ICC’s president, Sang-Hyun Song, was visiting the country. The prosecution’s office confirmed the release and noted that a hearing in their cases is expected on July 23. It [...]
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Sunday told reporters that attacks by Islamist rebels on religious monuments in Mali will not be tolerated. Bensouda said that the rebels’ destruction of tombs of ancient Muslim saints in Timbuktu may amount to war crimes. The rebels said the saints’ tombs are idolatrous. Bensouda said [...]
The Supreme Court of Israel on Sunday postponed the demolition of illegal settlements in the West Bank . The Supreme Court had ordered the 30 apartments in Ulpana neighborhood to be destroyed by July 1, extending it from May 1. However, with Sunday’s ruling, another date for the demolition was set to November 15. The [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Sunday issued a temporary injunction blocking a controversial Mississippi abortion law that was scheduled to go into effect July 1. The new law requires that all physicians performing abortions at a clinic be a licensed OB-GYN and have privileges to admit [...]
A Chinese court on Monday confirmed a settlement reached last week in the trademark case between Apple and Shenzhen Proview Technology . The Guangdong Hich People’s Court said that Apple has agreed to pay USD $60 million to Proview for the use of the iPad trademark in mainland China. Although Apple had paid $55,000 for [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Phelim Kine, Senior Researcher of the Asia Division at Human Rights Watch, says that the Chinese government’s new National Human Rights Action Plan is filled with empty rhetoric and is actually a downgrade from the previous plan…
