Voters in California, Arizona, South Dakota and Oregon on Tuesday rejected a range of marijuana-based propositions, including legalization in California and medical marijuana initiatives in South Dakota and Arizona. In California, Proposition 19 , which was defeated by a 54-46 margin , would have legalized the sale and possession of up to one ounce of [...]
A Turkish Magistrate Court in Ankara reinstated the nearly-three year ban on YouTube on Tuesday, just days after it was lifted. The court ordered access to YouTube blocked after video of former opposition leader Deniz Baykal in a bedroom with a female aide surfaced on the site. Baykal resigned in May following the exposure of [...]
Arizona voters on Tuesday approved Proposition 107, amending the state constitution to ban affirmative action programs in state government agencies. The measure was passed by the state House of Representatives and placed on the ballot after the Senate also approved the measure in June 2009. The language on the ballot read : A “yes” vote [...]
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced Wednesday that Google UK has committed a “significant breach” of the Data Protection Act through its data collection practices for its Street View maps . During the investigation, authorities found that when Google Street View cars gathered data over WiFi networks they also collected pieces of personal information [...]
Oklahoma voters on Tuesday approved State Question 755 , an amendment to the state constitution that bans the use of Islamic or international law in state court decisions. The amendment, also known as the Save Our State amendment, was approved by voters 70 percent to 30 percent . The amendment was overwhelmingly approved by the [...]
The voters of Arizona, Oklahoma and Colorado on Tuesday voted on state constitutional amendments seeking to make the individual mandate provision of the recent health care reform law unenforceable in their states. In Arizona, Proposition 106 passed 55.4 percent to 44.6 percent . The amendment purports to “preserve the freedom of Arizonans to provide for [...]
The government of Kosovo dissolved its parliament Tuesday after the coalition led by the Democratic League of Kosovo (DLK) fell to a vote of no confidence brought by the opposition. The DLK’s parliamentary majority was lost in September when its leader, then-president Fatmir Sejdiu, resigned after the Constitutional Court ruled that his dual roles as [...]
Google has filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Interior (DOI) alleging that the DOI arbitrarily decided only to allow Microsoft to compete for a contract to overhaul its e-mail system. According to the lawsuit, filed Friday in the US Court of Federal Claims , the DOI decided in August to limit bidders to [...]
The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association on whether the First Amendment permits any limits on offensive content in violent video games sold to minors, and whether a state regulation for displaying offensive, harmful images to children is invalid if it fails to satisfy the exacting “strict scrutiny” [...]
The Administrative Tribunal of Versailles on Tuesday cancelled an order refusing a residency permit to Agathe Habyarimana, widow of assasinated Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana , ordering that her application be reconsidered. The reconsideration gives Habyarimana more time to defend against extradition attempts by the Rwandan government. The court denied her residency permit in July, considering [...]
