Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News International (NI) and former editor of the newspaper News of the World , was arrested Sunday by UK police on charges related to a wide-spread phone hacking scandal. Police arrested Brooks on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption. She was questioned and released [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday dismissed a lawsuit over the constitutional right to sell cigarettes. The lawsuit was brought by Safeway, Inc. , a chain of grocery stores, challenging a San Francisco city ordinance banning the sale of cigarettes by pharmacies. The original ordinance had [...]
The UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Monday ordered that both Thailand and Cambodia immediately withdraw military personnel from a disputed area along the border between the two countries. The Temple of Preah Vihear is a demilitarized region between Cambodia and Thailand, and has been the sight of armed clashes between military forces from [...]
A Milan criminal court on Monday denied a motion filed by Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to move his prostitution trial to the Tribunal of Ministers , a special court set up to prosecute public officials. The Tribunal of Ministers would require parliamentary authorization before hearing the case against Berlusconi. Berlusconi is on trial for [...]
A Hungarian court on Monday dropped war crimes charges against accused Nazi Sandor Kepiro, who was alleged to have participated in the 1942 Novi Sad massacre in Serbia. Thirty-five people were killed by Hungarian forces under Kepiro’s control during the World War II raid. Kepiro, whose trial began in May , persistently denied involvement and [...]
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized Turkey’s neglect of some human rights issues , including a lack of religious freedom, the censoring of the internet and improper detention of journalists. Clinton noted the rising economic importance of Turkey as well calling it one of the most exciting places in the world [...]
Apple prevailed in a complaint against HTC on Saturday when the US International Trade Commission (USITC) ruled against HTC for patent infringement on patents 5,946,647 and 6,343,263 , both of which relate to cell phones that run the Android operating system (OS). HTC will appeal the ruling. If the ruling stands, the United States will [...]
A federal judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Washington on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction suspending the imposition of contribution limits in Washington state recall campaigns. Judge Robert Bryan ruled that, given the diminished potential for quid pro quo arrangements typically feared in electoral campaigns, the state failed to demonstrate [...]
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday dismissed consolidated racketeering claims against British Petroleum (BP) in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill . Gulf residents and businesses filed lawsuits in June 2010 alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute, claiming that BP purposefully [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW), Amnesty International (AI), the Arabic Network For Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and Front Line Defenders (FLD) on Saturday urged United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities to end the trial of five pro-democracy activists charged with publicly insulting UAE leaders. The five men, who have been detained since April, were charged in June [...]
