A South Korean court ruled Friday that Apple and Samsung Electronics infringed on certain patents of the other, and the court banned the sales of some of the companies’ products in the country. The Seoul Central District Court held that Apple violated two Samsung patents related to mobile-data transfer technologies, and Samsung infringed one Apple [...]

The US Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it is shutting down three of the most highly trafficked Android piracy websites. This marks the first time the DOJ has seized website domains involving cell phone apps. The DOJ acted in conjunction with the FBI and Dutch and French agencies. FBI Special Agent in Charge Lamkin [...]

Germany’s Justice Ministry has introduced legislation that would grant several additional marriage rights to couples in same-sex civil unions. The move has reignited the same-sex marriage debate in Germany which legalized same-sex unions in 2001 but reserved several rights to heterosexual married couples. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, was the [...]

Egypt President Mohammed Morsi issued a new law on Thursday that bans pre-trial detentions of journalists for speaking out against the government. The new law, the first decree Morsi has issued since he granted himself executive and legislative powers last week , ends the Mubarak-era practice of jailing journalists who commit so-called “publication offenses” which [...]

The Russian Justice Ministry announced Thursday that it has filed a formal request with the US government for a copy of the verdict of reputed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout , who in April was sentenced by the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to 25 years in prison . The [...]

Saif al-Islam Gaddafi , the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, will face trial in September, according to Libyan prosecutors. Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued a warrant for his arrest for crimes against humanity, the militiamen who captured Saif al-Islam are insisting that he be tried in Zintan, Libya, the town [...]

The African Union (AU) and the government of Senegal on Wednesday signed an agreement creating a special tribunal in Dakar to try 69-year-old ex-Chadian dictator Hissene Habre for killing and torturing thousands of political opponents during his reign from 1982 to 1990. The agreement calls for “Extraordinary African Chambers” to be created inside the existing [...]

South Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday that the nation’s 59-year-old ban on abortions is constitutional. The eight-judge panel was deadlocked 4-4 in deciding whether to uphold the abortion ban, but six votes were needed to overturn it. South Korea banned abortions in 1953 with exceptions for rape, incest and severe genetic disorders. The Constitutional [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Seth Barrett Tillman of the National University of Ireland Maynooth Department of Law argues that if the US Constitution is ambiguous regarding whether it is possible to serve both as a congressman and vice president, then Paul Ryan should not be withheld from holding both positions, if elected…

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri (ACLU) filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a Missouri law that makes it a crime to disturb a worship service. The ACLU contends that the law in question, the House of Worship Protection [...]