The Supreme Court of New Jersey on Wednesday upheld a decision by a New Jersey appellate court finding that an infertile woman is not the legal parent of a child conceived using her husband’s sperm and carried by a surrogate. The court determined that the New Jersey Parentage Act requires a woman in that situation [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Cory Howard, Wake Forest School of Law Class of 2014, argues that the recent suit filed by Lululemon concerning Calvin Klein’s alleged infringement of design patents represents a potential turning point for the industry… Design patents, which protect manufactured article’s non-functional, ornamental features, have long been an underutilized source of protection for [...]

A UN legal expert said Wednesday that governments around the world need to do more to combat judicial corruption . Presenting her annual report to the UN General Assembly, Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Gabriela Knaul said that judicial corruption is a direct threat to the rule of law and human [...]

The European Commission (EC) accused Microsoft on Wednesday of violating an agreement to provide consumers with a choice of Internet browsers. EC Vice President Joaquin Alumnia stated that Microsoft abused its dominant market position by tying in its Internet Explorer browser with Windows computers. The EC has previously stated that by supplying Internet Explorer on [...]

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday sentenced Rajat Gupta, former Goldman Sachs director, to one year in prison, one year of supervised release and a $5 million fine for his securities fraud convictions. Gupta was convicted in June of three counts of securities fraud and one count of [...]

While the international community has come a long way in enacting legal standards to prevent torture and inhumane punishment, UN Committee Against Torture Chairperson Claudio Grossman said Tuesday that there are still too many states practicing torture . He said that while the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment [...]

US Attorney Preet Bharara on Wednesday filed a $1 billion civil lawsuit against Bank of America (BOA) claiming the bank committed fraud in residential mortgages. The claim was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and alleges that Countrywide Financial, a home mortgage originator subsequently purchased by BOA, [...]

The Dutch Rechtbank ‘s-Gravenhage court ruled Wednesday that Samsung Electronics did not infringe on a software patent held by Apple . Apple brought the suit alleging Samsung infringed on their patent concerning methods for user input and data manipulation through a “multi-touch” touch screen with their Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets running the Android [...]

New York’s highest court said Tuesday that it will not hear a challenge to the state’s Marriage Equality Act (MEA) , effectively dispelling the last viable threat to same sex marriages in the state. The New York Court of Appeals announced it will not hear a challenge to the law brought by the conservative group [...]

Uruguay President Jose Mujica on Tuesday signed a bill legalizing abortion. The bill provides no restrictions on abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. After the first 12 weeks it provides that women must go before a medical panel and go through a five-day “reflection” period before undergoing the procedure. This makes Uruguay only [...]