20th May - LAW NEWS Headlines

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• Authenticate This: Revamping Secondary Trademark Liability Standards to Address a Worldwide Web of Counterfeits http://t.co/AzYZY08Z May 20, 2012
• The Copyright Misuse Doctrine’s Role in Open and Closed Technology Platforms http://t.co/Qupk7Yk2  May 20, 2012
• Musical Albums as “Compilations”: Limitation on Damages or a Trojan Horse Set to Ambush Termination Rights? http://t.co/XzyVIyCq  May 20, 2012
• Lucent v. Gateway: Putting the “Reasonable” Back into Reasonable Royalties http://t.co/4x3D70Yn May 20, 2012
• Seeing the Forest Through the Trees: Gene Patents & the Reality of the Commons http://t.co/1cys7M8P May 20, 2012
• Diagnosing Patentable Subject Matter http://t.co/MmYUpxTl May 20, 2012
• US: Addressing the Patent Application Backlog at the United States Patent and Trademark Office http://t.co/IviPFLpB May 20, 2012
• Punishment Outside Prison http://t.co/D6eAhOdH May 20, 2012
• US: In Defense of Voting Rights http://t.co/kYw9dzPe May 20, 2012
• A Little Bit Indian - Why Elizabeth Warren, law professor has kicked up such a fuss over ethnicity http://t.co/461du8F5 May 20, 2012
• Judges to decide on secret evidence as Clarke pushes ahead with plans http://t.co/5lAf1RJH May 20, 2012
• Black Country solicitor promises to carry on after merger - Stourbridge http://t.co/qp6RFjqe May 20, 2012
• What's next: a new push for justice for Megrahi? http://t.co/VR5aT1tl May 20, 2012
• US: Justice in Oregon: Courts go high-tech, but people still reign supreme http://t.co/VRZx2JAq May 20, 2012
• THAILAND: Impatient Thai red shirts want justice from PM Yingluck http://t.co/AXuSZWLS May 20, 2012
• Blind justice the inspiration for Chinese dissident Chen http://t.co/Nkow2PMl May 20, 2012
• Lockerbie bombing: In full - Statement by Justice for Megrahi http://t.co/EW1fw6iY May 20, 2012
• The black-tie dinner at an Oxford college that told me dress codes do matter http://t.co/x0iok8z3 May 20, 2012
• We're being saddled with a daft American-style policing idea nobody wants http://t.co/nvInjPTP May 20, 2012
• Prime Minister is this week expected to back a plan to help boost growth by cutting employment red tape http://t.co/EKD7HV86 May 20, 2012
• Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies in Tripoli http://t.co/GZne3ArQ May 20, 2012
• US: Supreme Court considers whether to take up anti-terrorism laws http://t.co/n7lH9I9E May 20, 2012
• INDIA: Para-legal volunteers in rural Haryana http://t.co/nqRZhJcj May 20, 2012
• The Tories are urging legal action against minimum alcohol pricing, despite supporting the Scottish Government plan http://t.co/sIA29AcR May 20, 2012
• SYRIA: Foreign Ministry states Sanctions Violate Human Rights Principles, Constitute Terrorism against the Syrians http://t.co/taApaYkF May 20, 2012
• CHINA should improve human rights record: according to TAIWAN president http://t.co/HJk3uZTi May 20, 2012
• Former barrister and peer's top tips for modern living http://t.co/bvOx79t2 May 20, 2012
• AUS: Overcrowded prisons open to damages claims http://t.co/SKxwKoYq May 20, 2012
• Courts must allow people who believe in God to swear in front of him & atheists to affirm by whatever they believe in http://t.co/dtxHXu73 May 20, 2012
• TheLawMap Wig is out! http://t.co/VTrW0Mek ▸  May 20, 2012
• Practical, legal & economic barriers to optimisation in energy distribution - ESSAY http://t.co/7KmQd9tB May 20, 2012
• Murder charge over Jennifer Hume death at caravan park http://t.co/LPAXck7Z May 20, 2012
• Sue Akers: Phone hack police chief to retire http://t.co/0AZvfScU May 20, 2012
• US: OJ lawyer seeks to disqualify Vegas DA from appeal http://t.co/Wt4ducfa May 20, 2012
• INDIA: Chennai lawyer arrested in Bangalore in burglary case http://t.co/sZ0xE7R5 May 20, 2012
• CANADA: Manitoba opens inquiry into sex scandal involving judge http://t.co/7OVx0j2I May 20, 2012
• Lawyer casts doubt on Libya’s ‘will and ability’ to try Seif al-Islam http://t.co/GgndCROw May 20, 2012
• PAKISTAN: Lawyers announce march on capital http://t.co/1pkkpBgf\05\20\story_20-5-2012_pg11_1 May 20, 2012
• Female Genital Mutilation: The Dangers of Social Currency http://t.co/70J1jCK6 May 20, 2012
• Is the 'Hijab' Discriminatory to Women? http://t.co/nH8s19r9 May 20, 2012
• My Conversation With the Dalai Lama: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality (VIDEO) http://t.co/9Sy2iz2p May 20, 2012
• Guantanamo 9/11 Trial: Judge Weighs Splitting Off Trial http://t.co/zyPjZmZx May 20, 2012
• NIGERIA: NJC vs. Salami: Nigerian justice system on trial http://t.co/7K98oWsC May 20, 2012
• US: Trial opens this week for Wash. man in 2010 death of 17-year-old beauty school classmate http://t.co/YX07kny1 May 20, 2012
• US: Jurors in John Edwards corruption trial take weekend break http://t.co/3oQ14RZk May 20, 2012
• A last-gasp legal twist could throw Michaela Harte murder trial into disarray just as the case is finally set to start http://t.co/JNVgMrAV May 20, 2012
• Ratko Mladic and a lesson from Srebrenica http://t.co/sj50FGF9 May 20, 2012
• Antibiotics Illegal In US Found In Samples Of Shrimp http://t.co/5xtiPKfR May 20, 2012
• NIGERIA: The Joint Military Task Force has smashed a syndicate of oil bunkering operating in Bayelsa State http://t.co/6N39y4DZ May 20, 2012
• US: Alabama governor signs revised anti-illegal immigration law http://t.co/HGb1UeEn May 20, 2012
• AUS: Rangers target illegal Namadgi hunters http://t.co/13OZpZyw May 20, 2012
• US: Young illegal immigrants, unwilling to accept life in the shadows, declare themselves publicly http://t.co/KKduCJ7u May 20, 2012
• INDIA: Come back to work: Ajit Singh to Air India pilots who are engaged in strike action http://t.co/5qoYovVl May 20, 2012
• David Cameron's radical plan to reform jobs red tape regulation http://t.co/4XGY1uGD May 20, 2012
• ITALY: Mafia suspected as bomb attack at Italian school kills teenage girl and wounds seven http://t.co/YQZ5zZPW May 20, 2012
• Treasury delays put HS2 plan in 'jeopardy' http://t.co/CrAoNBnZ May 20, 2012
• In honour of a campaign to revoke the law that prohibits insults, we present some of the rudest remarks ever made http://t.co/2y3UVnGv May 20, 2012
• PAKISTAN: State responsible for dispensation of justice, says CJP http://t.co/1pkkpBgf\05\20\story_20-5-2012_pg7_1 May 20, 2012
• US: Fate of 'uninsurables' hinges on Supreme Court http://t.co/voo0Yw9e May 20, 2012
• AUS: Courts under fire in mental health row http://t.co/90tscDtG May 20, 2012
• Seven people face terrorism charges in Northern Ireland http://t.co/2W7vuaIF May 20, 2012
• Lawyers ‘told doctors to exaggerate crash injuries’ http://t.co/v0n3iFj2 May 20, 2012
• JAMAICA: Human rights group welcomes police apology to Digicel, wants same for ordinary citizens http://t.co/oSyuZpDm May 20, 2012
• EGYPT: Rights group accuses Egypt's military of torture http://t.co/EYL4GMYs May 20, 2012
• Comsumer Rights: 'We don't want to fix our walls' - http://t.co/QkxIiZj1 May 20, 2012
• US: Woman gets 20 years for firing warning shot http://t.co/lIt5bfsy May 20, 2012
• INDIA: Mayawati rips Samajwadi Party apart on law & order http://t.co/o34BrkLd May 20, 2012
• US: Alabama's Governor Signs Controversial Immigration Law http://t.co/1z6PtcPx May 20, 2012
• CANADA: Quebec's student crisis law stokes unrest http://t.co/8dBBKdmf May 20, 2012
• IRELAND: Oatlands College expels four students over Facebook comments http://t.co/sCvGFpD5 May 20, 2012
• Martin McGuinness sought co-operation in Smyth inquiry http://t.co/RB6pkOW9 May 20, 2012
• Two men in court after £250,000 Dungannon drugs find http://t.co/cKyRHJe2 May 20, 2012
• Pipe bomb and gun found during Belfast security alert http://t.co/1C5L0duB May 20, 2012
• Four remanded over 'terror training camp' near Omagh http://t.co/J6oYE9nH May 20, 2012
• Scottish employers urged to take on apprentices http://t.co/jkJVPyEM May 20, 2012
• Off-duty Strathclyde Police officer charged with sectarian offence http://t.co/SALr0vBs May 20, 2012
• Man arrested after Banff streets evacuated http://t.co/IEp0t5Zh May 20, 2012
• Police probe Costa Brava resort death of Scottish man http://t.co/cORsmcGK May 20, 2012
• TaxPayers' Alliance bid to scrap carrier bag charges http://t.co/zXGhPvy3 May 20, 2012
• Call to challenge Scottish minimum alcohol price plan http://t.co/ZpEadHS1 May 20, 2012
• China dissident Chen Guangcheng lands in the US http://t.co/XLGmBbpN May 20, 2012
• Pathetic fantasist or Nazi spy? The mysterious Mrs O'Grady http://t.co/uys8u4Y8 May 20, 2012
• Two arrested in abuse investigation http://t.co/W4pyUVDu May 20, 2012
• Teenage girl shot dead in Northern Ireland village - http://t.co/U4j0xdXZ May 20, 2012
• Red light shone at Olympic flame plane http://t.co/Y0ObrxQW May 20, 2012
• Phone-hacking Met investigator to stand down http://t.co/sSNXtnbj May 20, 2012