British music royalty collection society MCPS-PRS Alliance on Friday challenged a European Commission (EC) antitrust decision limiting the control such organizations have over copyright use agreements. In July, the EC ruled the current exclusivity deals the single-country societies had were effectively domestic monopolies in violation of Article 81 of the European Commission Treaty and Article [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana ruled Friday that the US Army will be able to complete its shipment of chemical waste from a location in western Indiana to Port Arthur, Texas, where the material will be incinerated. The Sierra Club and other citizen groups had filed the [...]

The head of India's Human Resources Development Ministry , Arjun Singh , said Friday that he advocates giving legal aid to two university students from the Jamia Millia Islamia who are suspects in the New Delhi serial bombings investigation. Singh's statement was in support of the university's Vice Chancellor, Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had [...]

Business research firm TM Group released a report on Friday saying that the majority of UK lawyers are using client identification methods which do not comply with the county's anti-money-laundering regulations. According to the report, 65% of those polled reported using only visual checks of identification, a method not endorsed by the country's 2007 Money [...]

Baseer Naweed : "The lawyer's movement for the restoration of judges and the independence of the judiciary has continued in spite the Pakistani government's illegal and unconstitutional handling of the issue of deposed judges. The government first made false promises for the restoration of judiciary as part of their election campaign of November 2, 2007. [...]

Telecommunications executives told the US Senate Commerce Committee Thursday that their companies would refrain from using certain surveillance technology without users' permission but stopped short of endorsing legislation to outlaw the practice. The committee hearing to investigate the privacy practices of American Internet service providers (ISPs) focused on deep packet inspection (DPI) , a technique [...]

The Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday authorized the Office of the Prosecutor to proceed with the prosecution of Congolese rebel militia leaders Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui , confirming that there is sufficient evidence to establish that Katanga and Ngudjolo Chui jointly committed the crimes against humanity of murder, [...]

The Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law this week released a guide addressing the legal rights of students seeking help for mental illness or emotional distress. The report, Campus Mental Health: Know Your Rights!, provides guidance to students on privacy, academic and disciplinary issues associated with mental health treatment at American colleges [...]

The US Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted in favor of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act , which as passed by the House reauthorizes a program requiring states receiving criminal justice assistance grants to report to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) information about people who die while incarcerated or in police custody. The [...]

A former US Marine filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that US Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) defamed him and violated his constitutional rights by suggesting that he had participated in killing innocent Iraqi civilians. In a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania , former Lance Cpl. Justin Sharratt accused [...]