The court found that Limelight directed or controlled its customer’s performance of each remaining method step: “tagging and serving content”). Don’t ask me what this means. See slip. op. at 8-9. Of course, this decision is relevant to a drug company instructing a physician and, ultimately, the patient, via labelling and/or training, about how to use a drug or biological. … [Read more...] about Limelight Networks v. Akamai Tech. – Supreme Court Cert. Denied
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Supreme Court to consider whether corporations may be liable for overseas human rights violations
The 2013 case, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, had held that there is a presumption that the law does not reach human rights violations committed in other countries. The presumption can be overcome, however, if the claims sufficiently touch and concern the United States, the court said in Kiobel. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court to consider whether corporations may be liable for overseas human rights violations
Supreme Court to decide whether Congress can bar states from authorizing sports gambling
“Never before has congressional power been construed to allow the federal government to dictate whether or to what extent a state may repeal, lift, or otherwise modulate its own state-law prohibitions on private conduct,” says the cert petition in Christie v. NCAA. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court to decide whether Congress can bar states from authorizing sports gambling
Supreme Court to Decide if Law School Can Ban Christian Legal Society
The Supreme Court has been considering whether to grant the cert petition since its Sept. 29 conference, according to The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times. The case has been listed for five additional conferences, “an unusually long delay,” according to The BLT. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court to Decide if Law School Can Ban Christian Legal Society
Supreme Court to Decide on Competency Delays in Death-Row Habeas Cases
The second case, Tibbals v. Carter, involves Ohio death-row inmate Sean Carter, who was sentenced to death for raping and killing his adoptive grandmother in 1997, AP says. According to an opinion (PDF) by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, experts agreed that Carter suffered from schizophrenia, personality disorder and hallucinations. The court based its decision partly on a different federal law allowing judges to order competency hearings for defendants before a trial, SCOTUSblog reports. … [Read more...] about Supreme Court to Decide on Competency Delays in Death-Row Habeas Cases
