Supreme Court rules freelancers control access rights online.Focuses on the online rights of freelance journalists in the United States. Details on the Supreme Court ruling on the Tasini versus The New York Times; Effects of the ruling on several electronic copyright cases; Distinctions between print...
NEW DELHI, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- India's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that sex with a wife below 18 years of age amounts to rape, a landmark judgment aimed at stopping child marriages. "If a man has sexual intercourse with a wife who is below 18 years, it is an offence. The minor...
BEIJING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) Thursday overturned the rulings in the first and second trials of an administrative lawsuit filed by Christian Dior Perfumes LLC. The lawsuit was against the Trademark Review and Adjudication Board (TRAB) attached to the Stat...
This morning the U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Cyan, Inc. v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund, No. 15-1439, holding that state courts continue to have jurisdiction over class actions asserting violations of the Securities Act of
Court rules that those who operate the charter schools are state actors, then because they must be non-sectarian, religious charter schools will be ruled unconstitutional. However, if the Court rules that charter schools are private actors, then religious charter schools will be ruled constitutional...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that appointments to Puerto Rico's financial oversight board were constitutional. The case was brought by a hedge fund run by the investor Mark Brodsky and a local Puerto Rico labor union whose arguments that Puerto Rico's financial oversight board was improperl...
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that states can compel retailers to collect sales tax from out of state online vendors.
The U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Colorado Supreme Court had made an incorrect assumption that states possess the authority to decide whether a presidential candidate is disqualified under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits individuals who have engaged in insu...
But the Supreme Court referred the case, over the use of the logo, for retrial by the State Intellectual Property Office. In 2016, Jordan won the right to his name in Chinese characters, but the Supreme Court upheld the firm's right to use its trademark "Qiaodan" in pinyin. ...
Sarra, J. (2006), Canada's Supreme Court rules no fiduciary obligation towards creditors on insolvency—Peoples Department Stores v. Wise. Int. Insolv. Rev., 15: 1–15. doi: 10.1002/iir.134 Author Information Email: Janis Sarra (sarra@law.ubc.ca) *Associate Dean and Associate Professor, ...