The Authors Guild , an advocacy organization for published writers, together with a former Poet Laureate, a Lincoln biographer and a children's book author, Tuesday sued search engine and advertising giant Google alleging "massive copyright infringement at the expense of the rights of individual writers." The class action suit filed in federal court in Manhattan [...]
The Saudi National Organization for Human Rights, the only human rights watchdog in Saudi Arabia , said Tuesday it has been banned from visiting Saudi prisoners in the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay . Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed, head of the group, said the US ambassador in Riyadh would not allow the group [...]
In Tuesday's environmental law news, Judge Richard Webber of the US District Court of Eastern Missouri has ruled that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has failed to review its health standard for lead pollution in the air, and has ordered the agency to do so. The national standard for airborne lead is to be [...]
The military judge in the court-martial of Pfc. Lynndie England for her role in the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on Tuesday barred the release of photos in her upcoming trial , many of which were published when the scandal came to light in early 2004. Many of the photos depict [...]
Leading Tuesday's states brief, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced today that his state will recognize the civil unions and domestic partnerships of other states, although not same-sex marriages. In a legal opinion , Blumenthal stated, "Civil unions performed in other states are entitled to full faith and credit in Connecticut and cannot be repeated [...]
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid said Tuesday that he would vote against the nomination of Judge John Roberts for Chief Justice of the United States because he had too many questions remaining about him. Reid's announcement while speaking on the Senate floor came as a surprise, as many expected him to support the nomination. [...]
The US government has argued in a court filing that Pope Benedict XVI has immunity as the head of the Vatican state and that a lawsuit against him should be dismissed. The lawsuit pending in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas charges the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in his role as [...]
China has warned the UN against abusing a new international right to intervene to protect those threatened by genocide or war crimes agreed to last week at a UN summit. Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing in a speech before the UN General Assembly said that the right to intervene remains subject to UN Security Council [...]
The US Department of Labor has implemented an exemption to requirements that government contractors have a written affirmative action plan if the contractors are working with the government for the first time on reconstruction projects following Hurricane Katrina . Although its unclear whether the temporary exemption will have much impact, the Department said it was [...]
Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said Tuesday that Iran would consider quitting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if the US or EU takes Iran before the UN Security Council over "breaches" of international atomic safeguards. The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency is meeting in Vienna this week and one of the [...]
