A judge for South Korea’s Seoul Central District Court on Thursday dismissed an attempt by Samsung to bans sales of certain Apple products in the country. Samsung claimed that Apple had infringed three patents with products such as the iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPad2, seeking 100 million won (USD $95,100) in damages. The judge [...]

Former prime minister of Thailand and head of the opposition Democrat Party , Abhisit Vejjajiva , was formally charged Thursday with the murder of two individuals during the 2010 Thai military crackdown on anti-government protests. In 2010 the Red Shirt protesters, supporters of current PM Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother, exiled former PM Thaksin Shinawatra [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Dean Broyles of the National Center for Law & Policy criticizes a California law regarding bathroom choice in public schools…

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday reinstated an 1861 law prohibiting sex between consenting adults of the same sex, overturning a lower court decision. The law, Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, was passed during the British colonial era and calls for a 10-year sentence for “carnal intercourse against the order of nature [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday in two cases. In Lozano v. Montoya Alvarez the court will determine whether a district court considering a petition under the Hague Convention for the return of an abducted child may equitably toll the running of the one-year filing period when the abducting parent has concealed the [...]

Uruguay’s Senate on Tuesday passed a measure to legalize the production, sale and consumption of marijuana. The bill, if signed into law by President Jose Mujica , will make Uruguay the first country in the world to have a system that regulates marijuana production, sale and consumption. The bill, which was unveiled in June 2012, [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Kansas v. Cheever that the Fifth Amendment does not prohibit the government from introducing evidence from a court-ordered mental evaluation of a criminal defendant to rebut that defendant’s presentation of expert testimony in support of a defense of voluntary intoxication. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote for a unanimous court: [...]

The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in two cases. In the consolidated cases of Environmental Protection Agency v. EME Homer City Generation and American Lung Association v. EME Homer City Generation the court is considering the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Clean Air Act to issue a regulation limiting [...]

The US Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in Sprint Communications, Inc. v. Jacobs that the federal court did not have to delay proceedings while a similar state court proceeding was ongoing. The case dealt with the application of Younger v. Harris where state regulations affect telephone-via-internet calls. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for a unanimous court: [...]

Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich stated on Tuesday at a televised round-table discussion that a working group is likely to return to Brussels to continue talks on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement , a planned trade pact with the EU. Yanukovich’s earlier decision to abandon the trade pact was reportedly influenced by Russian President Vladimir Putin , [...]