The Supreme Court ruled against an Indiana farmer who sought to cut the planting cost of his soybean crop by relying on subsequent generations of a patented Monsanto herbicide-resistant seed.
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“[America] has been hacked. That is a computer term when the operating system of a computer is taken over and the computer does things the owner does not want it to. That is what has been happening to American democracy….”
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The Supreme Court has ruled US courts cannot hear lawsuits about human rights abuses abroad. The nine justices unanimously said that a court in the state of New York could not hear a case against the Shell oil firm, over alleged abuses in Nigeria.
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The Supreme Court seemed worried Wednesday about letting prosecutors use a suspect’s pre-Miranda silence against them in court. If you are silent, you must be guilty!
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The U.S. Supreme Court today essentially put the government’s expanded terror surveillance program beyond legal challenge, tossing out a lawsuit filed by a group of lawyers, journalists, and civil rights groups who claimed they were improperly swept up in the law’s reach.
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Who controls the rights to the seeds planted in the ground? A 75-year-old farmer takes the agricultural giant to court to find out
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In a document sent to the two financial prosecutors investigating the list, the court’s vice prosecutor Nikos Pantelis asked them to hand over the USB stick to the head of the police’s electronic crimes squad, noting that several press reports had noted that the squad has the ability to determine the exact date and time that the stick was tampered with and from which computer the intervention was carried out, which would help authorities to identify the perpetrator.
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On Wednesday, Greece’s Supreme Court annulled the ban of a first instance Athens court that had ruled “the collection of emergency property tax through electricity bills was illegal.”
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Louisiana Supreme Court satisfied that vague evidence suffices to confiscate money from motorists.
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The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to decide whether human genes can be patented, a hotly contested issue with broad practical and ethical consequences for the future of gene-based medicine for millions of people worldwide.
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