A European court on Wednesday upheld several fines imposed against Microsoft Inc. for noncompliance with an order of the EU Commission . Microsoft was initially requested by the Commission to provide competitors with interoperability information and to authorize the use of such information, allowing competitors’ products to interface properly with Microsoft’s server software between 1998 [...]
A UN independent commission on Wednesday told the UN Human Rights Council that government forces in Syria “may have been responsible” for the deaths of more than 100 civilians, including women and children, in Al-Houla, Syria last month. In a report presented to the 20th Session of the council in Geneva, the panel of experts [...]
A federal judge on Tuesday granted a request by Apple to issue an injunction against Samsung Electronics blocking the sale of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while the patent infringement case is reviewed. Judge Lucy Koh for the US District Court for the Northern District of California stated that Apple has a strong case on [...]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that a German law requiring landowners to allow hunting on their property is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights . The case was brought by Guenter Herrmann, who is morally opposed to hunting. He argued that the law intruded on his quiet enjoyment of [...]
The New York State Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that New York City is not contractually obligated to carry on with the current rent subsidy program available for the formerly homeless. The Legal Aid Society sued the city on behalf of tenants, after the city terminated the Advantage program, which provided rent subsidies of [...]
Investment research firm executive Tai Nguyen pleaded guilty to insider trading charges in connection with the investigation into Raj Rajaratnam‘s Galleon fund. Nguyen, an executive of the research firm Insight Research LLC, surrendered to the FBI Tuesday morning in compliance with the authorities’ investigation of Galleon. Rajaratnam was convicted of 14 counts of insider trading [...]
A German court ruled Tuesday that circumcising young boys based on religious traditions is prohibited even if the parents consent to the procedure. The Cologne state court addressed the issue of whether to criminalize the circumcision of Muslim and Jewish children and reasoned that a child’s right to physical integrity is above the freedom of [...]
The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday unanimously approved a bill that would impose sanctions on Russian officials linked to the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky . The bill was approved by a House committee earlier this month. If passed, the bill will bar the US State Department from issuing visas to [...]
Libyan armed forces on Tuesday signed an agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) affirming that the country will consider international humanitarian laws during military operations. Under the memorandum, which was signed at the Libyan military headquarters in Tripoli, the ICRC is expected to provide information and support to the country’s military [...]
The Bahrain government on Tuesday announced that it would pay $2.6 million in restitution to the families of protesters killed in pro-democracy protests last year. The government said that the compensation was to comply with the recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) , which suggested in its report last year that the [...]
