Search Results for: 2013-09-25

A Chinese military court on Tuesday sentenced former top General Guo Boxiong to life in prison for taking bribes. While the amounts of the bribes have not been officially disclosed, as the trial was held behind closed doors, the...

Alberto Fujimori , Peru's former leader who was jailed in 2007, submitted another request for a presidential pardon on Saturday, just five days before President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski takes office. Fujimori is serving a...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Monday held that Google and Viacom are not liable for planting "cookies" on children's computers to gather data for advertisers. In a class...

Bangladeshi workers gathered Sunday on the third anniversary of the Rana Plaza garment factory disaster to demand justice for the incident that took the lives of more than 1,000 people. A court in Dhaka ruled that 41 defendants can...

A Moscow arbitration court on Monday rejected an appeal by Google , upholding a ruling that the US-based company broke anti-monopoly laws by abusing its dominant position within the cellular application industry. Russian Internet company Yandex...

JURIST Guest Columnist Meghan J. Ryan of Dedman School of Law, Associate Professor of Law, discusses the evolution and future of the death penalty...Capital punishment in this country has a long and storied history. In the early years, the colonies...

The Central Africa Republic (CAR) constitutional court on Monday certified the results of the first round of the recent presidential vote, resulting in a runoff between two former prime ministers. The election results reported that Anicet Georges...

A judge for the US District Court of the Middle District of North Carolina on Friday declined to grant a motion by the NAACP and other plaintiffs that would have kept the state...

Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday announced amendments to the nation's foreign investor law in an effort to stimulate Zimbabwe's stagnant economy. The ambiguously-worded Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Bill of 2007 required all foreign companies...

A court in Dhaka ruled on Monday that 41 defendants can be tried for murder for the April 2013 garment factory collapse that killed 1,135 workers. Initially charged with culpable homicide, the defendants were charged with murder ...