The UK Court of Appeal ruled this week that software is not a good, overruling the lower court opinion. The issue on appeal was whether the sale of a license to use software counts as a “sale of goods” under the UK’s commercial regulations. The court ruled that it did not, as the software was [...]
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UN human rights experts expressed concern Friday over the diminishing health of Jiang Tianyong, a prominent human rights lawyer jailed in China for inciting subversion of state power. Jaing’s health has dramatically deteriorated in recent months, and the experts believe that he suffers from severe memory loss and that he may have been drugged. “This [...]
The Kentucky Senate approved a bill on Thursday that outlaws the use of the dilation and excavation abortion method for patients in their eleventh week of pregnancy or later. The method is most commonly used in second-term abortions. Violation of the law will be a Class D felony. The pregnant woman on whom the procedure [...]
US President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday calling for the US Trade Representative to develop a list of proposed tariffs against goods from China. The trade representative has 15 days to publish the list of proposed tariffs, which will undergo a period of notice and comment. After the notice and comment, the [...]
In a ruling from the bench on Thursday, Wisconsin Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds ordered the state’s Governor Scott Walker to call special elections to fill two empty seats which were previously held by Republicans. Walker had previously refused to call the elections after two fellow Republicans stepped down to join the Walker administration. [...]
Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill known as the Reproductive Parity Act (RPA) into law on Wednesday, which will require insurers in the state of Washington to provide coverage for elective abortions and contraception if they also provide coverage for maternity care. Additionally, the RPA will also require health insurance plans issued or renewed [...]
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved the “Right to Try Act of 2017,” which would give terminally ill patients the “right to try” unproven experimental treatments. Under the bill, the government would not be able to prohibit or restrict production and distribution of an experimental drug that “is intended to treat a patient [...]
The US District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking Mississippi’s HB 1510 , enacted only one day earlier, that prohibits abortion after the 15-week gestation period. Termed the most restrictive abortion legislation in the US, the law calculates the gestation period from the first day of [...]
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether a court may exercise jurisdiction over property owned by a tribal government despite a generally applicable sovereign immunity to suit. In this case , the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe and the Lundgrens owned adjacent properties in which a Washington state trial court denied the tribe’s motion to [...]
Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak was arrested and jailed early Friday on multiple corruption charges, including bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power. The Seoul Central District Court approved the arrest warrant based on serious allegations of crime and the possibility that the ex-president may attempt to destroy evidence. Prosecutors accuse Lee of taking up [...]
