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Entries Tagged as 'law'

Century-Old Ban Lifted on Minimum Retail Pricing

June 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that it was not automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on minimum retail prices.
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Tags: supreme+court · law · business

Judges Say U.S. Can’t Hold Man as ‘Combatant’

June 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

The federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled yesterday that the president may not declare civilians in this country to be “enemy combatants” and have the military hold them indefinitely. The ruling was a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration’s central assertions about the scope of executive authority to combat terrorism.
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Tags: law · terrorism · u.s.+news

Judge Throws Out Charges in Guantánamo Prisoner Case

June 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

A military judge here dismissed the war crimes charges against a Canadian detainee today, saying there was a flaw in the procedure the military has used to file such charges against Guantánamo detainees.
The ruling in the case of the Canadian, Omar Khadr, is likely to stall the military’s war crimes prosecutions here. Critics of the […]

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Tags: canada · law · guantanamo · iraq · u.s.+news

In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly

May 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
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Tags: tech · law · business

Make Way for Copyright Chaos

March 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Post to NewsCloud »

Lawrence Lessig weighs in on Viacom vs. YouTube.
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Tags: grokster · dmca · lawrence+lessig · legal · scotus · lessig · copyright · tech · opinion · youtube · google · law · supreme+court · business