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Enlarge (credit: Smith Collection/Gado / Contributor | Archive Photos) For the past year, Texas has been fighting in court to uphold a controversial law that would ban tech companies from content moderation based on viewpoints. In May, the Supreme Court narrowly blocked the law, but this seemed to do little to settle the matter. Today, […]
The International Olympic Committee has voted not to lift the suspension of Russia before the closing ceremony of PyeongChang Winter Olympics, prohibiting Russian athletes from appearing under their national tricolor. Full IOC membership unanimously voted in favor of the Executive Board’s recommendation to uphold the ban on Russia until after the 2018 Winter Olympics. “The […]
A French court has upheld a decision by a Parisian hospital to sack an intern over his refusal to trim his beard, ruling that facial hair in a secular environment might be interpreted by staff and patients as a religious symbol. The case dates back to 2013-14, when Mohamed A, a medical student at the […]
Published time: 8 Sep, 2017 08:33 A Berlin man was fined €900 for farting twice while he was undergoing a routine police identity check in February 2016. He appealed the fine in court on Tuesday. The defendant, named only as Christoph S., reportedly ‘cut the cheese’ twice in the vicinity of a female officer. Her […]
Enlarge (credit: Casey Fiesler) A federal appeals court has upheld a legal process that invalidated the so-called “podcasting patent.” That process was held by a company called Personal Audio, which had threatened numerous podcasts with lawsuits in recent years. On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the April 2015 inter partes review […]
(credit: Aurich Lawson) A US federal appeals court has upheld (PDF) a life sentence for Ross Ulbricht. He was convicted in 2015 of being the Dread Pirate Roberts who ran the Silk Road website, the largest Internet black market at that time. The three-judge panel unanimously upheld the rulings on a variety of issues by US District Judge Kathleen […]
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. […]
Enlarge / Kim Dotcom speaks to the media following a bail hearing at Auckland District Court on December 1, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. (credit: Fiona Goodall/Getty Images) An appellate court in New Zealand has upheld a lower court’s 2015 decision that Kim Dotcom and his co-defendants should be extradited to the United States to face […]
