Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna filed a motion with the state Supreme Court Tuesday announcing the adoption of a single-drug execution method. The state had previously used a three-drug cocktail to lethally inject those sentenced to be executed. The change comes as three death row inmates are challenging Washington's previous execution method that included the [...]

A court in East Timor on Wednesday sentenced 24 individuals for the attempted assassination of the country's president and prime minister in 2008. The individuals, former government and military officials displaced after civil unrest resulted in a change in government in 2006, had been accused of attacking President Jose Ramos-Horta at his home in the [...]

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an emergency appeal to prevent Washington DC's same-sex marriage law from taking effect. Chief Justice John Roberts, acting as circuit justice for the DC area, denied an application requesting a stay pending further review of the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Equality Amendment Act of 2009 . The [...]

JURIST Guest Columnist Don Rothwell of Australian National University College of Law says that in the context of unpromising diplomatic negotiations between Japan and Australia with regard to Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean area, the Australian government will likely be left with no choice but to file suit against Japan in the International Court [...]

Apple filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the US District Court for the District of Delaware against rival smartphone maker HTC alleging that several of HTC's products infringe 10 patents owned by Apple. The patents involve various areas of technology including hardware designs, touch-screen interfaces, and graphical user interfaces. Apple's CEO Steve Jobs explained the reason [...]

The General Court of the EU on Tuesday rejected a challenge to the EU's Emissions Trading Directive brought by Luxembourg-based Arcelor , the world's largest steel producer. The company sought both the annulment of certain articles of the directive and damages for the harm suffered as a result of the adoption of the directive. It [...]

Stephen Blanks and Corinne Reichert : "In February 2010, the NSW Supreme Court sentenced five Australian citizens who were found guilty of conspiracy to do acts in preparation for a terrorist act or acts to terms of imprisonment ranging from 23-28 years. The offenders had been arrested in 2005, and their trial lasted almost 11 [...]

Joseph Schaeffer, Pitt Law '12, attended a panel on Music, Copyright, and Free Speech as part of the ACLU's Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll series at Carnegie Mellon University… In the past 10 to 15 years, music has gone from a finite good available only in physical form from various brick and mortar retailers [...]

Nathaniel Burney : "If you are under arrest, and the police are interrogating you, they have to stop questioning when you ask to speak with a lawyer. So long as you remain in custody, they can't keep asking you to waive your right to have a lawyer present. That's coercive. Like the other Miranda rules, [...]

Mac's Shell Service, Inc., et al. v. Shell Oil Products Co. LLC, et al., US Supreme Court, March 2, 2010 . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. Latest commentary available here. JURIST has more on this case.