Malaysian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim failed a third time Monday to remove the judge in his sodomy case. The charges against Anwar allege that he sodomized a former male political aide. Anwar argued that Judge Zabidin Mohamad Diah had convicted him before he had a chance to give his defense. [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Board of Trustees of Stanford University v. Roche Molecular Systems that federal law does not automatically vest title of inventions from federally funded research in the university through which the research is being conducted. The 7-2 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts held that the Bayh-Doyle Act [...]
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday in Erica P John Fund v. Halliburton that, though a party to a private securities fraud action must demonstrate that the defendant’;s misrepresentation caused economic loss, securities fraud plaintiffs do not need to prove loss causation for class certification. Erica P John Fund (EPJ Fund) sought class [...]
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday in McNeill v. United States that a federal sentencing court must determine whether “an offense under State law” is a “serious drug offense” under the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA) by consulting the “maximum term of imprisonment” applicable to a defendant’s prior state drug offense at the [...]
The US Supreme Court Monday granted certiorari in two cases. In Martinez v. Ryan , the court will decide whether a defendant has a right to effective assistance of counsel in the first post-conviction appeal at which the defendant could raise a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel in the trial. Martinez was convicted on [...]
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Monday in Fox v. Vice that it is improper to award defendants the full amount of attorney’s fees incurred while defending non-frivolous claims along with a frivolous claim. 42 USC § 1988 permits courts to award defendants attorney’s fees for defending against a frivolous claim, even when the [...]
A Bahrain court on Monday arraigned 47 doctors and nurses on charges of trying to overthrow the government and participating in illegal demonstrations when they helped treat injured protesters. The doctors and nurses were stationed primarily at the Salmaniya Medical Complex , a state-run center in Bahrain’s capital, Manama, when protests calling for democratic change [...]
US President Barack Obama has been urged to stop deportations to Haiti on humanitarian grounds. More than 3,000 Americans signed a letter sent to the president on Thursday, claiming that deportees are immediately imprisoned upon return to Haiti and can suffer illness-related deaths as a result of the unsanitary and inhumane conditions of the jails. [...]
A report by UN Special Rapporteur Rashida Manjoo has said that there is a continued prevalence of violence and discriminatory treatment of women in the US, with a heightened impact on poor, minority and immigrant women. The 28-page report, delivered Wednesday, says the US has taken some positive steps with the passage of the Violence [...]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Sunday expressed concern over the arrests of dozens of civilians by Libyan opposition authorities. HRW called on the National Transitional Council (NTC), the opposition ruling body in Libya with de facto control over eastern Libya, to provide civilian detainees with full due process rights, access to counsel, and the ability [...]
