BP worker sacked over Hitler parody video gets his job back ~news australia Article 366 words 6 votes
Controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have been thrown into doubt after a court ruling ~transport Article 611 words 8 votes
Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape, sexual assault, but acquitted of predatory sexual assault ~movies Article 645 words 16 votes
Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai jailed for ten years in China – Swedish citizen who went missing in 2015 sentenced for providing intelligence abroad ~news sweden hong kong china Article 512 words 8 votes
Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans ~enviro climate change Article 446 words 5 votes
Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules ~tech privacy google Article 464 words 21 votes
Finland's foreign minister faces probe over Syria repatriations – Pekka Haavisto will be investigated over his plan for swiftly bringing children held in Syria to Finland ~society politics Article 416 words 4 votes
Danish social worker accused of stealing 117 million Danish kroner of government funding for more than twenty-five years ~finance Article 245 words 5 votes
Boy Scouts of America file for bankruptcy due to sex-abuse lawsuits ~finance business Article 1223 words 21 votes
Professor loses landmark legal battle after claiming it’s ‘free speech’ to deliberately misgender trans students ~lgbt transgender Article 492 words 23 votes
Man accused of storming a mosque in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, after murdering his step-sister with a hunting rifle, has been charged with murder and terror offences ~news norway.oslo crime Article 339 words 6 votes
Celeste Barber’s $52 million bushfire fund has been held up thanks to legal wrangling ~enviro Article 376 words 3 votes
Australian Federal Court orders Google to turn over identifying information of user who left negative review for Melbourne dentist ~tech google Article 675 words 8 votes
DoorDash made its couriers agree to binding arbitration, and now a federal judge has ordered them to pay almost $10 million to arbitrate over 5000 claims filed by couriers ~tech Article 581 words 10 votes
An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state) ~tech privacy Article 1793 words 7 votes
High Court rules Aboriginal people cannot be deported for criminal convictions, cannot be 'alien' to Australia ~news australia Article 687 words 16 votes
What powers do US judges have over an administration? ~humanities Article 2976 words, published Mar 2 2017 4 votes
Australian government lawyers warned the tax commissioner the controversial "robodebt" program could be illegal on the same day the Federal Government suspended the scheme ~finance Article 449 words 5 votes
Norwegian company sues state over risky spy recruitment in Russia – intelligence agencies' clumsy approach to recruiting informants had caused the company financial loss ~finance business Link 6 votes
The California Attorney General has requested 35 pieces of information from ICANN regarding the proposed sale of the .org TLD ~tech internet Article 409 words 12 votes
Victoria's Attorney-General Jill Hennessy has written to Australia's governor-general, asking him to overturn men’s rights activist Bettina Arndt's Order of Australia ~news australia Article 531 words 4 votes
YouTube moderators are being required to sign a statement acknowledging the job could give them PTSD ~tech google social media Article 1550 words 26 votes
Greenpeace loses Norway Arctic oil lawsuit appeal – Oslo appeals court approved Norway's plans for more oil exploration in the Arctic ~enviro climate change Article 591 words 7 votes
Supreme Court has granted Sámi in the far north the sole right to manage small-game hunting on its land – and not the Swedish state ~life Link 8 votes
One goal of United Methodists’ plan to split the church over same-sex marriage and clergy: Avoid lawsuits ~lgbt Article 1083 words 8 votes
A spate of new class-action lawsuits threaten the CBD industry. Will they force Washington to act? ~health Link 4 votes
China convicts three researchers involved in gene-edited babies ~science biology Article 138 words 11 votes
Rhode Island lawsuit: Students sue for the right to learn civics ~humanities education Article 1576 words, published Dec 12 2019 16 votes
The Supreme Court in the Netherlands has ordered the government to cut national greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% of 1990 levels by the end of next year ~enviro climate change Article 950 words 16 votes
Federal judge rules that the government is entitled to all proceeds from Edward Snowden's book and paid speeches ~news usa Article 608 words 14 votes
A German woman sued a stinky cheese shop. A court ruled that she could continue to express her distaste with the odor vocally, but could no longer display complaint signs. ~food Article 270 words 8 votes
Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths ~finance business Article 854 words 7 votes
Golfer Thorbjørn Olesen pleads not guilty to sexual assault on plane – Ryder Cup winner due to stand trial next May on three charges ~sports golf Article 169 words 4 votes
FTC settlement with for-profit University of Phoenix over deceptive advertising will require them to cancel $141M in student debt and pay $50M to former students ~finance Article 955 words 14 votes
Sweden's former ambassador to China faces an unprecedented trial over allegations she overstepped her authority during a meeting to secure the release of Gui Minhai ~news sweden china Article 481 words 6 votes
A powerful statement of resistance from a college student on trial in Moscow ~misc Article 1929 words 12 votes
Jury finds that Elon Musk did not defame British cave explorer Vern Unsworth when he called him “pedo guy” in an angry tweet ~news Article 552 words 18 votes
Sweden's telecoms giant Ericsson has agreed to pay more than $1bn to resolve allegations of bribery, the US Department of Justice has announced ~finance business Article 317 words 4 votes
George Zimmerman sues Trayvon Martin's family for more than $100 million ~news usa.fl Article 455 words 21 votes
Rune II developer Human Head Studios is being sued by publisher Ragnarok after it abandoned the game one day after its release in order to join Bethesda ~games Article 637 words 7 votes
Elon Musk's testimony in defamation trial: Pedo guy insult was 'not classy' but not meant literally ~news Article 910 words 16 votes
Danish artist Tal R seeks to stop his work being cut up to make watches ~arts art Article 546 words 8 votes
Riot Games will pay at least $10 million to settle gender discrimination suit, split between all female employees who worked there in the last five years ~games Article 728 words 17 votes
Legal reckoning: New abuse suits could cost Catholic Church over $4B ~humanities religion Article 2690 words 8 votes
Prosecutors in Sweden have dropped an investigation into a rape allegation made against Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange in 2010 ~news sweden Article 145 words 8 votes
The Supreme Court will hear Google’s appeal in the long-running copyright/API dispute with Oracle ~tech google Article 266 words 24 votes