Microsoft Corporation on Friday asked the US Supreme Court to reconsider a ruling of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas finding that the company committed patent infringement and awarding Canadian-based software company i4i $290 million dollars in damages. i4i alleged that Microsoft willfully infringed on patents it held on XML technology [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed a decision issued last year by the US Court of Federal Claims finding insufficient evidence to establish a link between childhood vaccines and autism in three test cases. The decision focused on the case of 15-year-old Michelle Cedillo, who received the MMR vaccine [...]

The Obama administration has halted plans to prosecute Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri for his alleged involvement in the 2000 USS Cole attack , according to a Washington Post report Thursday. According to the report, the intention not to pursue charges was revealed in a motion filed with the US Court of Appeals for [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on Friday denied a motion to dismiss a challenge to the constitutionality of a second execution attempt filed by death row inmate Romell Broom . The challenge was filed in September following a failed execution attempt, in which officials failed to find [...]

Somali citizen Jama Idle Ibrahim pleaded guilty Friday to several charges in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia for his role in the April attack on the USS Ashland in the Gulf of Aden. Ibrahim, originally charged with piracy , reached an agreement with prosecutors to plead guilty to charges of [...]

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen filed suit Friday against Apple, eBay, Google and eight other corporations in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington , claiming the infringement of four patents related to website navigation and electronic information presentation. According to the complaint, which also names AOL, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, [...]

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday reported Kenya to the UN Security Council and the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute over Friday’s visit by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir . Al-Bashir was in Kenya, an ICC member state, to celebrate the signing of the country’s new constitution . ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I [...]

A court in Madagascar on Saturday sentenced former president Marc Ravalomanana to life in prison with hard labor for ordering the killing of opposition protesters in February 2009. Ravalomanana, who has been living in South Africa since his ouster in March of last year, was sentenced in absentia on charges of murder and accessory to [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Peter Erlinder, defense counsel at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law says that even though the White House is now more openly critical of Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime, the US and international community at large must take a much closer look [...]

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (R) on Thursday filed the state’s opening brief in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , asking the court to lift the preliminary injunction blocking Arizona’s controversial immigration law from taking full effect. In the brief, Arizona argues that the preliminary injunction should be vacated because District Judge [...]