Another appeals court is going to weigh in on Trump’s immigration ban

Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo SEATTLE (AP) — For the second time in a week, government lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban — and once again, they can expect plenty of questions Monday about whether the ban was designed to discriminate against Muslims. A three-judge […]

US appeals court to reconsider Ohio lethal injection case

Published time: 26 Apr, 2017 04:08 After blocking Ohio from using lethal injection drugs, a federal appeals court has agreed to review its ruling, this time including its entire bench of judges. A reversal could allow the state to execute three death row inmates as scheduled. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati issued […]

Appeals court: Uber engineer can’t plead the 5th

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Anthony Levandowski, the embattled Uber engineer who has been accused of illegally downloading thousands of documents while he worked at Google, won’t be able to avoid handing over documents by pleading the Fifth Amendment. That’s the decision (PDF) of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, published today. Levandowski filed an […]

Lomography’s disposable film camera is an old idea that still appeals to me

Lomography is launching a new 35mm film camera today called the Simple Use Film Camera. It’s designed to look and act like a disposable camera, although you can reload it with a bit of work. Lomography suggests you’re living on the edge if you try to add more film, but it does provide instructions (and […]

Arkansas executions continue legal limbo after state supreme court & federal appeals rulings

Published time: 17 Apr, 2017 22:39Edited time: 17 Apr, 2017 22:48 The start of a series of executions in Arkansas has been disrupted. The state supreme court kept two death row inmates alive Monday, but a federal appeals court overturned a lower court’s halt on eight lethal injections planned for the next 10 days. Read […]

A Colorado appeals court sided with a group of teenagers who sued the oil industry for not protecting the environment

Andrew Burton/Getty The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a group of teenagers on Thursday, reversing a lower court ruling and opining that the state must hold public health and environmental protection to a higher level of importance than the interests of its oil and gas industry, the Denver Post reported. The case was […]

Federal appeals court upholds Nintendo’s win in 3DS patent battle

Just months after the Nintendo 3DS launched in 2011, it faced patent infringement allegations. Tomita Technologies was accusing Nintendo’s new handheld of using its glasses-free 3D display technology without paying royalties. Like most patent lawsuits, it dragged on for years — first awarding a victory to Tomita before handing the win to Nintendo in appeals. […]

IDF soldier who killed wounded Palestinian attacker appeals sentence amid lawyers’ desertion

The legal team representing IDF Sergeant Elor Azaria, convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead an already neutralized Palestinian attacker, filed an appeal with Israel’s military court, despite reportedly being coerced by the prosecution against the move. Azaria was sentenced by a military court on February 21 to 18 months imprisonment, 12 months’ probation, plus a […]

‘You can still fix it’: Caitlyn Jenner appeals to Trump on transgender rights

E! “You can still fix it,” Jenner said in a video she posted to Twitter. “You made a promise to protect the LGBTQ community.” Former Donald Trump supporter and defender, Caitlyn Jenner, has taken issue with the president’s latest executive decision to lift federal guidelines that said transgender students should be allowed to use public school […]