The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Life Technologies v. Promega to decide whether 1) a corporation can be held liable for actively encouraging the assembly of components of a patented invention when the same legal entity both supplies the components from the US and assembles them abroad; and 2) a supplier [...]
Israel’s Knesset on Monday voted in favor of a revised bill intended to legalize more than 4,000 unauthorized settlement homes situated in the West Bank. The Palestinian land was occupied by Israel during the 1967 Middle East War and has since become home to more than 100 settlement outposts, not all of which have been [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that violation of a seal under which a relator’s complaint has been filed does not require dismissal of the entire complaint, upholding a fraud verdict against State Farm Fire & Casualty Company stemming from Hurricane Katrina. The case arose out of a complaint filed by two insurance claim [...]
The US Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Samsung over Apple on Tuesday in an infringement suit between the two smartphone giants. At trial, a jury awarded Apple $399 million, an amount based on the total profits Samsung made selling smartphones that Apple claimed infringed on their iPhone design. The US Court of Appeals [...]
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is engaging in torture in its efforts to root out political corruption, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report released Tuesday. The report claims that President Xi Jinping’s “war on corruption” has resulted in the punishment of thousands of low-level corrupt officials, as well as hundreds of so-called “tigers,” [...]
Dominic Ongwen , an alleged former top official in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity brought against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) . The charges stem from LRA attacks committed in late 2003 and 2004 in Ugandan IDP camps and include [...]
The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled Tuesday that nuclear plants that were closed or scheduled to be closed as a result of a statute passed in 2011 can recover damages. The statute accelerating the closing of German nuclear plants was passed in response to the nuclear accident at Fukushima, Japan, and just months after [...]
The International Crimes Tribunal Bangladesh (ICTB) on Monday sentenced fugitive Idris Ali Sardar to death for war crimes during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. The ICTB held the trial in absentia, listing Sardar as “absconded” in the court documents. Sardar worked as a leader of the Islami Chhatra Sangha during the war, allying himself with [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments in racial gerrymandering cases from Virginia and North Carolina. The first case, Bethune-Hill v. Virginia State Board of Elections is analyzing a redistricting plan in Virginia that was completed after the 2010 census. The approved plan was to require 55 percent of voters in a dozen [...]
A court in Greece on Monday ruled against extradition of three Turkish soldiers, determining that the soldiers should be released from protective custody pending a final ruling on their asylum applications. The soldiers, along with five others, fled to Greece after being suspected of involvement in an attempted coup against President Tayyip Erdogan that took [...]
