News tagged with legal principle
Are sexual offense laws too harsh? And do they work?
University at Buffalo Law School Professor Charles Patrick Ewing has added to his series of critically acclaimed books on some of the most unsavory but attention-grabbing aspects of the law, this time with a book questioning ...
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Mar 03, 2011 |
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Will Judicial Judgment Change Cyberspace?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The struggle of American courts to control the explosion of intellectual property rights violations on some of the most traveled highways of cyberspace poses a legal challenge to the judicial system with ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Judge hands Google victory in Oracle copyright fight
A federal judge on Thursday put a stake in the heart of Oracle's big-money lawsuit against Google by ruling that the application programming interfaces (APIs) at issue can't be copyrighted.
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Her majesty's secret
One of the greatest cliches uttered about her majesty Queen Elizabeth II is that in 60 years of reigning over us, "she has never put a foot wrong". This may well be true, but how do we know? What do we really ...
May 25, 2012 |
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China hits back at claims it is blocking climate talks
China hit back Thursday at claims it was holding up global climate talks in Germany, saying the United States, Europe and other rich states were the ones applying the brakes.
May 24, 2012 |
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UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal
UN members on Thursday took their first steps in a marathon to negotiate a new global pact by 2015 that for the first time will place rich and poor under a common legal regime to tackle climate change.
May 17, 2012 |
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Jury deadlocks on key issue in Google-Oracle trial
A federal jury failed to agree on a pivotal issue in Oracle's copyright-infringement case against Google, blunting the impact of its finding that Google relied on another company's technology to build its ...
May 08, 2012 |
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Carbon capture and storage -- new research shows tough road ahead to realize potential
Government plans to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to reduce carbon emissions received a cautious welcome today. A new report concluded that most of the uncertainties facing these technologies can – ...
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Apr 19, 2012 |
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Human rights today suffer from a 'democratic deficit': UK report
A new report finds that while there has been an increase in the UK parliament's involvement in debates about human rights over the last decade, and in the quality of that debate, there is still considerable ...
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Apr 18, 2012 |
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Tennessee seeks to question evolution in bill
US conservative Christians and science advocates are clashing again, this time in Tennessee over a bill that would allow debate in public schools over theories like evolution.
Apr 09, 2012 |
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The carriers of memory
Almost 100 years after the outbreak of World War I, public opinion about war in many of the countries that fought appears to have shifted completely. Historian Jay Winter explains how poetry, art and film ...
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Lower Chinese court rules shops should pull iPads
Apple's dispute over the iPad trademark deepened Monday after the Chinese company that claims ownership of the name said it won a court ruling against sales of the popular tablet computer in China.
Feb 20, 2012 |
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