Ratko Mladić , a former Bosnian Serb commander, has filed a challenge to a UN court’s rejection of his request to be sent to Russia, according to court documents released Tuesday. Mladić is seeking medical attention, as he has alleged that the care he receives at The Hague is inadequate. The Hague refutes these claims [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday allowed a lawsuit by Wikimedia to proceed against the National Security Agency (NSA) . The suit claims that the NSA’s use of Upstream violates the First and Fourth Amendments. Upstream is a surveillance program authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) . In [...]
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in SAS Institute Inc. v. Lee on whether third parties can petition the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to re-review issued claims and, if not patentable, cancel them. The question now is whether the re-review law requires the USPTO to issue written decisions regarding all the challenged [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC on what constitutes “residence” in the context of patent cases. The issue before the court was whether 28 USC § 1400(b) is the sole and exclusive provision governing venue in patent infringement actions and is not to be supplemented [...]
South Korea’s impeached president denied all charges and pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in her first court appearance at Seoul Central District Court . Former conservative party leader Park Guen-hye was indicted on 18 charges including accepting $52 million in bribes from large corporations such as Samsung . The scandal has led to the indictments [...]
After a six-month legal dispute over the right to use patents and other intellectual property, Apple and Nokia reached a settlement Tuesday that covers all ends of the lawsuits filed. The suit came as a result of Apple stating that they would no longer pay to use Nokia’s patents, many of which are built into [...]
The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that Mississippi is failing to uphold its obligations under a federal law that enabled it to rejoin the union after the Civil War. The law required the state to create a “uniform education system of free public schools” that would serve all children, regardless [...]
A UN panel released a draft treaty in Geneva on Monday that would ban the use of all nuclear weapons. States that are party to the treaty are obligated never to develop, produce, manufacture, acquire or use “any nuclear weapon test explosion or any other nuclear explosion.” The draft is supported by more than 130 [...]
Texas’ Republican-controlled Senate gave final approval to a bill that would enable publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to refuse the placement of children with non-Christian, unmarried or gay prospective parents due to religious objections. The “Freedom to Serve Children Act” was passed early Monday and will now go to Governor Greg Abbott for [...]
The High-Level Group on the Health and Human Rights of Women, Children and Adolescents released a report Tuesday imploring world leaders to allocate 5 percent of their country’s GDP in “public health spending,” according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) . Tarja Halonen, former president of Finland and co-chair [...]
