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The increased use of free social networking websites, like Facebook, also has a downside. In the UK a court has awarded Mr Mathew Firsht a considerable amount of damages after he discovered that a false profile of himself had been created on Facebook. Mr Firsht runs a company called Applause Store Productions which provides live [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that private gun owners have a constitutional right to keep handguns for private use in their own homes.
The District of Columbia (Washington D.C.) passed legislation making it a crime to carry an unregistered gun and prohibiting the registration of handguns. The law also requires owners of lawfully registered guns [...]

Discrimination in the workplace was in focus this past summer at the European Court of Justice. The Court ruled that discrimination by association is unlawful and also held that a racist public statement can constitute direct discrimination.
The landmark verdict in the case of Coleman v Attridge Law and Steve Law, Case [...]

In its quest to rid Europe of discrimination, the EU does not feel constrained by terrestrial borders. The skies have now been made handicap-friendly by EC Regulation 1107/2006: Rights of Disabled Persons and Persons with Reduced Mobility when Traveling by Air.
The Regulation, which entered into force on July 26, 2008, is [...]

The Court of Appeal issued a judgment on 10 September 2008 stating that a manufacturer and seller of goods who lost the goods through the fault of a third party before being able to deliver and sell the goods was entitled to recover the price for those goods as damages for their loss. The case [...]

Were the Burden sisters victims of discrimination when they were denied the inheritance tax exemption available to married couples and civil partners? No, said the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, in April 2008, the fact that cohabiting siblings do not qualify for that exemption does not violate Article 1 of the [...]

An assignee of legal title who has no beneficial interest in a claim, and has not suffered any actual injury traceable to the defendant’s conduct has standing to bring that claim in federal court, ruled the United States Supreme Court on June 23, 2008. In the case of Sprint v. APCC, the court held that [...]

A federal court helps the state of California in its efforts to reduce emissions from automobiles.
One of the primary procedural issues addressed in American law is whether a question presented is governed by federal law or by state law. The pre-emption doctrine provides that a state legislature may not regulate a federal issue.
A California federal [...]

What does one have to do with the other?
The tradition of fox hunting is very strong in the United Kingdom and when the government introduced a bill which would make foxhunting with hounds illegal, there was an uproar by countryside enthusiasts. Those opposed to foxhunting argued that the fox suffered a cruel and painful death [...]

Company must provide medical monitoring for residents of town.
A jury has found that a chemical company must provide medical monitoring for 7,000 residents of a West Virginia town who were exposed to heavy metal contamination emanating from a waste site.
Ten residents of the town of Spelter, West Virginia filed a class-action lawsuit against DuPont Co. [...]