Why do we pretend Supreme Court justices are anything but political officials?
Feb 22, 2016 13:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Politics
The late Justice Antonin Scalia believed that the federal Constitution allows states to ban abortion, to prohibit consensual sex between two adults in the privacy of their home as well as same-sex marriage, to keep a...
US Bankruptcy Judge: Bitcoin Is Intangible Personal Property Not Cash
Feb 22, 2016 08:00 am UTC| Digital Currency Law
During a hearing held last Friday, a bankruptcy court judge said that bitcoin is property not cash. The hearing relates to a suit filed by the trustee of bankrupt bitcoin mining firm HashFast Michael Kasolasagainst Marc...
New Bill Seeks To Change Fate Of Digital Currency Businesses In Wyoming
Feb 19, 2016 06:28 am UTC| Digital Currency Law
A new bill, put forward by a group of Republican and Democrat representatives and senators, seeks to amend definitions relating to the Wyoming Money Transmitter Act in order to include digital currency as a permissive...
Ending ‘revenge porn’: how can we stop sexual images being used to abuse?
Feb 19, 2016 02:51 am UTC| Life Law
A Senate inquiry into revenge porn is due to report next week. This will put this important social and legal issue back on the news and policy reform agenda. The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee defines...
Amateur doping shaping up to be sport's latest test as cycling bans rack up
Feb 18, 2016 15:44 pm UTC| Sports Law
The past few months have been traumatic for the world of athletics as it struggles to fight free of a suffocating doping and corruption scandal. On the flip side, it has been quite a turnaround for cycling, which has...
Village Roadshow using courts to block pirate sites will achieve little
Feb 18, 2016 15:10 pm UTC| Law Technology
Unbowed by the defeat of Voltage Pictures to prosecute illegal movie downloaders, Graham Burke, co-CEO of Village Roadshow Limited, is spearheading a Federal Court action to block Solarmovie.ph, a pirate TV and movie...
Why Apple is making a stand against the FBI
Feb 18, 2016 14:07 pm UTC| Technology Law
Apple has been ordered to help FBI investigators access data on the phone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. The technical solution proposed by the FBI appears to undermine Apples earlier claim that...
Gabon: post-coup dialogue has mapped out path to democracy – now military leaders must act
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects