America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis
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Ahmaud Arbery was lynched: He was killed in the street by White men. That’s how lynchings work
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Few US prisoners have been released since beginning of the pandemic: Nearly 3/4s of those held at jails are pretrial--meaning thousands of legally innocent individuals face a potential death sentence
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The Kentucky miner who scammed Americans by claiming he was Hitler and plotting a ‘revolt’ with ‘spaceships’
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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United States seeks to change the rules for mining the Moon
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S-Town podcast producers settle lawsuit with subject’s estate: suit filed in 2018 alleged the podcast used McLemore’s identity for a commercial purpose, violating Alabama's Right of Publicity law
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Here’s what an antitrust case against Google might look like: Two DOJ veterans lay out a roadmap for cracking down on the company’s digital advertising juggernaut
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Hundreds of thousands of Australians affected by the government’s robodebt scheme will receive notices from Centrelink about an upcoming class action under orders from the federal court
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American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sues Betsy DeVos over “reprehensible” new sexual assault rules
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Two suspects charged with murder in Ahmaud Arbery killing
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US Appeals court rules against Donald Trump on Emoluments Clause
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Tesla sues Alameda County to force California factory reopening
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Legal survey finds that US police are granted immunity at a high rate in use of force cases
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Norway mosque attack and murder trial begins in Oslo
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Lawful Masses on BiNet USA's claims of copyright on the Bi Pride flag
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Iceland wins EU trademark battle against United Kingdom-based supermarket chain
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A mysterious lawsuit tries to sink Seaside’s massive plans for growth
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A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?
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Amazon threatens to suspend French deliveries after court order
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The warrant used by Australian Federal Police officers to search the home of journalist Annika Smethurst last year was thrown out by the High Court today
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A Perth man has become the first person in Australia to be jailed for breaching emergency coronavirus laws after he repeatedly snuck out of his hotel room while he was supposed to be in quarantine
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The battle over the Sea-Monkey fortune
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Cardinal George Pell will be released from prison after the High Court of Australia quashed his child sexual abuse convictions
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The city of Helsinki had the right to scrap its contract with Siemens over the failed automation of the Finnish capital's metro
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Christchurch mosque attacks: Gunman pleads guilty to murder, attempted murder and terrorism
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Denmark charges Norwegian citizen over alleged Iranian assassination plot – attempt to eliminate a leading member of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz
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An Australian company which holds the rights to reproduce the Aboriginal design on flags and banners is a step closer to suing the seller of a reworked flag for alleged copyright infringement
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SoftBank-owned patent troll sues to block COVID-19 tests, using monkey selfie law firm and Theranos patents
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Two nurses denied jobs as midwives in Sweden because of their refusal to perform abortions have lost their legal action against Sweden at the ECHR
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Chelsea Manning case: Judge orders release from prison
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Male players have 'more responsibility' than women, US Soccer says in court filings
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Facebook files lawsuit against Namecheap
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The high-tech iBackpack received almost $800,000 from crowdfunding, but backers never received their bags. Now the creator is being sued by the FTC and state of Texas.
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Arrest warrant issued in the Philippines for Fredrick Brennan, founder of 8chan, under cyberlibel charges brought by the site's current owner
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BP worker sacked over Adolf Hitler parody video gets his job back
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Controversial plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport have been thrown into doubt after a court ruling
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Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape, sexual assault, but acquitted of predatory sexual assault
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Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai jailed for ten years in China – Swedish citizen who went missing in 2015 sentenced for providing intelligence abroad
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Greenpeace asks Norway's supreme court to rule on Arctic oil – a case that could block the petroleum industry's expansion plans
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Prompted by Brexit, Google will move UK users' data out of Irish jurisdiction so they are no longer covered by EU privacy rules
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Danish social worker accused of stealing 117 million Danish kroner of government funding for more than twenty-five years
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Boy Scouts of America file for bankruptcy due to sex-abuse lawsuits
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Professor loses landmark legal battle after claiming it’s ‘free speech’ to deliberately misgender trans students
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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
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Celeste Barber’s $52 million bushfire fund has been held up thanks to legal wrangling
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Australian Federal Court orders Google to turn over identifying information of user who left negative review for Melbourne dentist
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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
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An algorithm was taken to court – and it lost (which is great news for the welfare state)
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Four Chinese military personnel charged for Equifax hack
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