In an ongoing auto emissions scandal, South Korea announced Wednesday that it plans to fine Volkswagen (VW) an estimated USD $32 million over false advertisements . The fine is the largest of its kind, and will be levied against the manufacturer for advertisements which ran from 2007-2015. The Fair Trade Commission plans to file the [...]
US President Barack Obama gave his final national security address in Tampa on Tuesday, urging the next administration to stay true to the American stance against torture. The president began by commending service men and women in their part against the ongoing battle against terrorism. He noted several successful ventures undertaken during his administration, which [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in favor of the prosecution in an insider trading case involving the gifting of confidential information to a relative. Last year the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a ruling in Salman v. United States , affirming the conviction of a Chicago grocery wholesaler who profited [...]
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 [...]
