Lawyers working on a $1 billion copyright lawsuit filed by Viacom against Google´s YouTube may have uncovered evidence that employees of the video site were among those who uploaded unauthorized content to YouTube.
A Russian court ruled Tuesday that Russian law defines marriage as between a man and a woman, affirming a registry office´s refusal to recognize a marriage between two women. The couple, Irina Fedotova-Fet and Irina Shipitko, applied for a marriage license in March, but were refused by the registry. They appealed to the Tverskoi District Court in Moscow, arguing [RIA Novosti report] that nothing in the Russian Constitution [text] prohibits the recognition of same-sex marriage [JURIST news archive]. The court, however, refused [Reuters report] to overturn the registry´s decision. Fedotova-Fet and Shipitko plan on marrying in Canada later this month.
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland [official website] on Monday issued a temporary reprieve [press release] of two scheduled executions in order to give officials an opportunity to review the lethal injection procedures employed by the state. The reprieve comes after an unsuccessful lethal injection attempt last month resulted in corrections officials trying for two hours to find a vein in which to administer the injection to condemned murder Romell Broom. Strickland issued a temporary reprieve for Lawrence Reynolds, scheduled to be executed October 8, and for Darryl Durr, scheduled to be executed November 10. In the warrants of reprieve, Strickland explained:
Offenders who commit gun crimes must face “deterrent and punitive” sentences to protect the public and because of the widespread availability of firearms, the Lord Chief Justice ruled today.
Australia on Tuesday became the first G20 nation to raise interest rates since the onset of the economic crisis when its central bank increased the official cash rate from 3 per cent to 3.25 per cent.
Former Costa Rican President Rafael Calderon on Monday was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of corruption during his term.
Two independent record labels sued U.S. rock band Guns N´ Roses for $1 million, claiming the group used portions of two songs by a German musician on their last album "Chinese Democracy."
President Barack Obama ordered federal agencies on Monday to set a goal within 90 days for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, the White House said, aiming to "lead by example" in fighting climate change.
Former INTERPOL [official website] president and South African police chief Jackie Selebi [official profile; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty [plea explanation, PDF] to corruption charges Monday at the start of his trial in the Johannesburg High Court. Selebi is charged [JURIST report] with receiving $170,000 in bribes from convicted drug smuggler Glenn Agliotti [Guardian profile], who was suspected of killing South African mining magnate Brett Kebble. Selebi claims that charges against him were fabricated in retaliation for his corruption investigation of two members of the South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) [official website], including Vusi Pikoli. Then-president Kgalema Motlanthe fired Pikoli from the NPA in part for his decision to prosecute Selebi. The government denied [Eyewitness News report] Selebi´s allegations and announced [Independent report] that it will call several witnesses against Selebi, including Agliotti. The trial is expected to last about five weeks.
The Obama administration moved on Wednesday to exempt small businesses from new industrial smokestack controls on emissions of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.
Republican opposition is mounting as federal regulators prepare to vote this month on so-called "network neutrality" rules, which would prohibit broadband providers from favoring or discriminating against certain types of Internet traffic flowing over their lines.
This past June, all of the Supreme Court justices conducted fairly lengthy interviews with reporters from C-SPAN, in honor the channel’s “Supreme Court Week,” which starts next week.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.’s U.K. administrator said it will ask creditors to sign contracts to get back as much as $8.9 billion frozen after a judge rejected a similar plan.
Airline pilots and cabin crew across Europe are holding demonstrations Monday to protest over rules governing their flying hours which they say are putting the lives of passengers at risk.
The new Supreme Court term that begins Monday will be dominated by cases concerning corporations, compensation and the financial markets that could signal the justices’ attitude toward regulatory constraints at a time of extraordinary government intervention in the economy.
The U.S. Supreme Court will again consider gun rights and decide an important case that could loosen restrictions on corporation spending in political campaigns in its new term beginning on Monday.
U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank and other lawmakers on Friday urged regulators to delay the December 1 implementation of financial rules to enforce a ban on Internet gambling.
Irish voters went to the polls for a second time Friday to vote on the European Union (EU) reform treaty, also known as the Lisbon Treaty [EU materials; text]. Irish voters previously rejected the treaty, and Ireland agreed in June to hold a second referendum [JURIST reports] after EU leaders agreed to certain concessions [presidency conclusions, PDF], including legal guarantees that the treaty would not affect taxation, abortion, or military neutrality laws.
A three-judge panel of the UK High Court [official website] strongly criticized [Guardian report] the Ministry of Defence (MOD) [official website] Friday for its failure to properly setup an independent inquiry into claims that war crimes had been committed by British soldiers following a May 2004 gun battle, known as the "Battle of Danny Boy" [BBC backgrounder], in Southern Iraq.
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