Google has reached a settlement with a group of French authors, ending a lawsuit challenging its book-scanning initiative , which displayed scanned images of select pages of books, according to a joint statement . The Societe des Gens de Lettres (SGDL) and Google reported Monday that they had “reached an agreement to promote initiatives for [...]
More than 1,300 people filed a criminal complaint on Monday against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for causing the March 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant and for the plaintiffs’ resulting radiation. The complaint named as defendants Tsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of TEPCO, Masataka Shimizu, the former president of the company, and Haruki [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Israel on Sunday not to enforce its “Anti-Infiltration” policy, claiming the law violates asylum-seekers’ “basic rights.” According to HRW, Israel will soon begin enforcing the new law which reflects amendments made in January by the Knesset to the 1954 Prevention of Infiltration Law that regards all irregular border-crossers as “infiltrators” [...]
Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio asked the US District Court for the District of Arizona in a motion on Friday to dismiss the lawsuit pending against him that claims his office discriminated against Latinos and disregarded their constitutional rights. The motion to dismiss the case comes a month after the US Department of [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday ruled unanimously to allow 17 media groups unfettered viewing access at future executions, overturning a Tuesday ruling from Idaho. The court declared that the Associated Press and 16 other news organizations have the right to view all stages of an execution by issuing a [...]
US Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two US Attorneys on Friday to investigate recent “leaks” of classified information. The investigation will run concurrently with an FBI investigation, and the US Attorneys are empowered to prosecute any suspects as they see fit. The classified information, which was reported in the New York Times late last week, [...]
The International Criminal Court (ICC) said Saturday that four ICC staff members have been detained in Libya since Thursday. They traveled to Libya Wednesday to meet with Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi . Reportedly among the detainees are Melinda Taylor, an Australian lawyer working for the ICC. A [...]
Defense lawyers for the alleged architect of the USS Cole bombing, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , on Friday requested that the court allow for worldwide broadcast of the Guantanamo trial, instead of limited broadcast in the Pentagon. Lawyers asked the military court judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, to allow international television stations to broadcast newsfeed [...]
JURIST Contributing Editor Jordan Paust of the University of Houston Law Center says that despite recent legislative efforts to prevent the enforcement of international law, state governments are obligated to do so by the US Constitution…
JURIST Columnist Courtney Joslin, writing the sixth installment of a column authored by the faculty of the University of California, Davis School of Law, says that a Supreme Court decision regarding Social Security benefits for children conceived through in vitro fertilization may have implications for same-sex marriage rights…
