Sitting en banc, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a three-judge panel decision against Google that had required it to remove the controversial, anti-Islam Innocence of Muslims video from its YouTube site. The court dissolved the takedown injunction, holding that the injunction infringed upon the First Amendment and was an incorrect [...]
The US Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in Campbell Ewald Company v. Gome . The case comes to the Supreme Court on appeal from a Ninth Circuit decision and presents three issues: whether a case becomes moot, and thus beyond the judicial power of Article III, when the plaintiff receives an offer of complete [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday affirmed Apple’s smartphone patent victory against Samsung but remanded the case to the lower court to reduce the damages that must be paid to Apple . The court upheld the district court’s determination that Samsung infringed on some of Apple’s patented iPhone technology but [...]
An Egyptian court sentenced 30 members of the Muslim Brotherhood on Monday to life imprisonment on charges of violent behavior. The largest case concerned 17 out of the 30 defendants and included charges stemming from attempts made on the lives of protestors in Mansoura. Of the 17, 15 were charged in absentia, while one was [...]
The Obama administration on Monday announced a ban on federal transfers of certain military-style equipment to local police forces. The ban, recommended by a task-force created in January, includes tracked armored vehicles, bayonets, grenade launchers, .50-caliber and higher ammunition, and some types of camouflage, and sets up policing standards for other equipment. Speaking at the [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Henderson v. United States that individuals convicted of felonies may transfer firearms to independent third parties or have them sold. The court reversed the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit , which ruled that through constructive possession , a felon might still exert [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday in Harris v. Viegelahn that a debtor who converts to Chapter 7 is entitled to return of any postpetition wages not yet distributed by the Chapter 13 trustee. Petitioner Charles Harris, after filing a voluntary petition for Chapter 13 bankruptcy and continuing to pay under that plan for [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in City and County of SF v. Sheehan that two police officers who shot and injured a mentally disabled woman during the course of an arrest are entitled to qualified immunity from liability for the injuries suffered. The court held that the officers did not violate the Fourth Amendment [...]
Kuwait’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the two-year prison sentence against activist Musallam al-Barrack for insulting Kuwait’s ruler.Al-Barrack, a former lawmaker, was originally sentenced to five years in prison, but that sentence was later shortened on appeal to two years. The case against al-Barrack began after he gave a speech in October 2012 in which [...]
The US Supreme Court ruled Monday in Coleman v. Tollefson that a dismissal of a prisoner’s lawsuit that is still appealable does count as one of three allotted “strikes” that limits other suits by the prisoner. The “three-strike” provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act bars an inmate from filing a new lawsuit over prison [...]
