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They say all’s fair in love and war, but those that have used Tinder will probably disagree. And that includes Allan Candelore, a man suing the dating app over the pricing of its premium service, Tinder Plus. Candelore and his lawyers argue that charging $ 9.99 a month to users under 30, and $ 19.99 […]
The UK government’s mass surveillance program, allowing for the indiscriminate collection of people’s personal data, has been ruled unlawful by the Court of Appeal. Large parts of the government’s Investigatory Powers Act 2016 – dubbed the ‘snoopers charter’ – must be amended as it runs contrary to EU law, the Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday. Read […]
Reuters/James Lawler Duggan A federal appeals court panel ruled Friday that President Donald Trump once again exceeded the scope of his authority with his latest travel ban. The ruling says Trump’s proclamation makes no finding whatsoever that simply being from one of the countries cited in the ban makes someone a security risk. HONOLULU (AP) […]
SOUTH African media are reporting that Olympian Oscar Pistorius is appealing his recently lengthened prison sentence for the murder of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Broadcaster EWN reports that Pistorius filed an application to the Constitutional Court on Tuesday. The Supreme Court of Appeal last month more than doubled Pistorius’ sentence to 13 years, calling the initial […]
Published time: 9 Dec, 2017 05:20 Edited time: 9 Dec, 2017 05:20 On Friday, the 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago reinstated the confession of Brendan Dassey, 28, of Wisconsin, subject of the Netflix documentary “Making a Murderer.” Charges in Dassey’s case had been dropped in 2016 after a Milwaukee federal judge declared a […]
FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images A federal appeals court allowed part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to take effect. Several advocacy groups have filed lawsuits challenging administration’s related efforts to restrict or ban certain refugees from entering the U.S. Last month, a federal judge in Hawaii blocked most of Trump’s third travel ban just before it was due to take effect. […]
Enlarge / The IBM logo is seen on its building’s headquarters in New York on Tuesday, December 22, 2015. (credit: Richard Levine/Corbis via Getty Images) A federal appeals court has now partially ruled in favor of the SCO Group, breathing new life into a lawsuit and a company (now bankrupt and nearly dead) that has been […]
Published time: 21 Oct, 2017 03:34 The Trump administration has until the end of October, less than two weeks away, to find a private sponsor for a 17-year-old illegal immigrant seeking an abortion, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled Friday. The teenage girl is 15 weeks’ pregnant and in US […]
A Missouri appeals court that vacated a $ 72 million US award to an Alabama woman who claimed her use of Johnson & Johnson products that contained talcum contributed to her ovarian cancer has thrown the fate of awards in similar cases into doubt. CBC | Health News
The federal courthouse in Marshall, Texas. (credit: Nicolas Henderson / flickr) Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court sharply limited where patent cases can be filed. For many tech companies that are regularly sued by the type of patent-licensing shops known as “patent trolls,” the TC Heartland decision was welcome news. By limiting venue to places where […]
