A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that a second-hand software merchant may not invoke the first sale doctrine as a defense in copyright litigation when the software licensing agreement (SLA) specifies that the distributor maintains ownership of the software. The court held that because the SLA specified [...]

Richard Judelsohn : “The most common question I get from parents and patients regarding vaccine safety is ‘I heard on TV and read on the Internet that vaccines can damage the body. Is that true?’ The first part of my response is to explain the science, and state that studies have not established a causative [...]

Serbia’s Office of the War Crimes Prosecutor on Saturday announced charges against nine individuals for their suspected involvement in the 1998-1999 Kosovo war . The charges include murder, rape, looting, destruction of property and intimidation. The nine, all former members of the Serbian paramilitary group Sakali, were arrested in March and accused of the systematic [...]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) on Friday ordered former Kosovo Albanian military leader Ramush Haradinaj to remain in custody while awaiting a new trial. The court determined that granting Haradinaj a provisional release would lead to increased media exposure that would “add to the already threatening atmosphere for witnesses.” Though stating [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld a jury verdict clearing Chevron of wrongdoing in the 1998 deaths of two protesters occupying a Nigerian oil platform operated by the company. Protesters Arolika Irowarinun and Bola Oyinbo, were killed in May 1998 on Parabe Oil Platform and several others were injured [...]

Two Guinea election officials were convicted Friday of election fraud and sentenced to a year in jail for irregularities with June’s presidential primary election. The convictions of Ben Sekou Sylla, president of the election commission, and his top aide, El Hadj Boubacar Diallo, have raised further tensions before the presidential run-off election scheduled for September [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday invalidated a municipal ban on tattoo parlors by Hermosa Beach, California, calling it a violation of the First Amendment. The controversy initially arose when Johnny Anderson was denied a permit to open a tattoo parlor by the city, located in southern California. The city [...]

French judges may drop charges against two police officers who chased three teen boys into a power substation where two of the teens died after being electrocuted, according to Friday reports . The two officers were charged in 2007 with “non-assistance to a person in danger” under Article 223-6 of the French penal code for [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Central District of California on Thursday struck down the US military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT) policy, which bans openly gay individuals from the armed services. The suit was initiated in 2004 by the Log Cabin Republicans , who argued that the policy violates individuals’ First [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Thursday that two ordinances passed by the city of Hazleton, Pennsylvania making it more difficult for illegal immigrants to live or work in the town are unconstitutional. The court found that the Illegal Immigration Relief Act (IIRAO) and Landlord Tenant Ordinance (RO) improperly infringe on [...]