A judge for the US Court of Federal Claims has issued a preliminary injunction preventing the US Department of Interior (DOI) from accepting a bid from Microsoft to overhaul its e-mail system, according to a ruling made public Tuesday. Google had filed a lawsuit in November alleging that the DOI arbitrarily decided only to allow [...]
Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law ’12, attended the Hot Shale Plays conference co-hosted by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and Energy and Mineral Law Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He writes about the Pittsburgh City Council’s ban on Marcellus Shale drilling… Pittsburgh recently played host to a RMMLF and EMLF co-sponsored special institute titled “Development Issues [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court of California to weigh in on whether supporters of Proposition 8 , California’s same-sex marriage ban, have standing to defend the measure when state officials have refused to do so. Judge Vaughn Walker of the US District Court for the [...]
Archbishop Jerome Listecki announced Tuesday that the Archodiocese of Milwaukee will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as a result of financial strain from lawsuits over the clergy sex abuse scandals . The archdiocese’s purpose in filing the petition is to achieve the dual goals of compensating remaining victims and survivors of the abuses and [...]
Spanish National Court judge Fernando Andreu on Tuesday issued a writ to pursue an investigation against Iraqi Lieutenant General Abdol Hossein Al Shemmari for allegedly ordering a July 2009 strike against Iranian exiles at Camp Ashraf in which 11 unarmed civilians were killed, 36 were detained and approximately 500 were injured. Most of the citizens [...]
The Hungarian government on Tuesday continued to defend its controversial new media law in the face of criticism from the EU. The new law, which entered into force this week, creates the National Media and Communications Authority (NMHH) , which controls private television and radio broadcasters, newspapers and online news sites. Under the new law, [...]
The Supreme Court of California ruled Monday that law enforcement officers can legally search text messages on a suspect’s cell phone without a warrant incident to a lawful custodial arrest. The court held 5-2 that a search of the defendant’s cell phone text messages in the police station 90 minutes after the arrest did not [...]
The governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was shot and killed Tuesday by one of his own security guards, apparently because of his opposition to Pakistan’s blasphemy law . Taseer, a senior member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) , was shot while getting into his car at Islamabad’s Kohsar Market and died later [...]
Afghanistan’s five-judge panel set up last week to investigate election complaints said Monday that it will issue rulings in time for President Hamid Karzai to seat the parliament as scheduled on January 20. Karzai has promised to have the parliament seated on time amid controversy surrounding the results of last September’s parliamentary elections . However, [...]
The Uganda High Court on Monday issued a permanent injunction and awarded damages to plaintiffs who were alleged to be homosexuals by the Ugandan tabloid newspaper, The Rolling Stone. The complaint was filed by Uganda’s Civil Society Coalition on Human Rights and Constitutional Law on behalf of three members who, along with 97 other individuals, [...]
