Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff have rejected a complaint that the Amazon online retail company violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by targeting its toy area at children and allowing the posting of product reviews. The Act aims to protect children under 13 by forbidding websites directed at children from collecting personal information without [...]

Lawrence Solum, University of San Diego School of Law: "When I wrote these words, I was sitting in the chamber of the Supreme Court of the United States. The last time I was in this room, I was sitting on the bench in the chair usually occupied by Chief Justice Rehnquist—that's another story altogether. On [...]

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has raised concerns about possible fraud in Sunday's parliamentary and presidential elections in Romania. The OSCE, which had 18 international observers from 13 countries at the polls, flagged the possibility that some people voted more than once and said there were problems with the misuse of [...]

A divided three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued an injunction Monday against the enforcement of the Solomon Amendment, a ten-year-old federal law which requires the United States Department of Defense to deny federal funding to institutions of higher education that prohibit military representatives access to students for recruiting [...]

The US Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in Ashcroft v. Raich (case summary from Duke Law School), a California case involving the use of marijuana as a legitimate medical treatment. The court is considering whether sick people in the eleven states which recognize medical marijuana can get around general federal laws which ban the drug. [...]

In Monday's corporations and securities news, several leading record labels, including EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and Universal, are suing Sharman Networks, the firm behind leading file-swapping software Kazaa in an Australian court. Sharman says it has no control over what users do with swapped files. BBC News has more. In other news, the SEC is [...]

Implementation of the NPT Safeguards Agreement in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Resolution adopted by the International Atomic Energy Agency, November 29, 2004 . Read the full text of the resolution here . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

China and the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed an agreement Monday that will create the world's largest free trade area by removing tariffs for their 2 billion people by the end of the decade. The countries also signed a pact to expand last year's Framework Agreement for the Integration [...]

Chilean President Ricardo Lagos announced Monday that the Chilean government will be offering lifelong pensions to individuals on a monthly basis that are almost equal to the minimum wage for the same period. The announcement follows the publication of the report of the National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture (official site in Spanish), which [...]

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to last year's Massachusetts high court decision legalizing same-sex marriage. Read the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health. 10:48 AM ET – The Supreme Court's Order List is now available here . The Court granted [...]