Law Firm Sends State Officials Letter Regarding Southern California Gas Leak
Dec 02, 2015 00:10 am UTC| Business Law
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 01, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Attorney R. Rex Parris law firm sent a 54 page letter to state officials regarding Southern California Gas Companys gas leak in Aliso Canyon that has sickened residents and...
Japan's whaling fleet sets sail again, and there's not much that can stop it
Dec 01, 2015 03:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Japans whaling fleet will leave port today to resume whaling in the Southern Ocean as part of its new scientific program, NEWREP-A. Under the new program, Japan will kill 333 minke whales each summer. This is down from...
China's plan to put two-faced citizens on credit blacklist isn't all that foreign
Nov 30, 2015 16:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
China has a problem. No, not Donald Trump trying to savage it any time he comes within three feet of a microphone. Its that enormous social shifts in recent years like the forcible relocation of 250 million people from...
A court just made a landmark ruling for abortion rights in Northern Ireland
Nov 30, 2015 15:52 pm UTC| Health Law
Belfasts High Court has ruled that Northern Ireland can no longer withhold abortions from women who have been the victims of rape or incest, or whose pregnancies involve a fatal foetal abnormality. The judgement is...
Who owns space? US asteroid-mining act is dangerous and potentially illegal
Nov 25, 2015 13:09 pm UTC| Science Law
An event of cosmic proportions occurred on November 18 when the US congress passed the Space Act of 2015 into law. The legislation will give US space firms the rights to own and sell natural resources they mine from bodies...
Cheaper books are on the way, but IP policy still favours big business
Nov 25, 2015 00:38 am UTC| Business Law
Bruce Baer Arnold, Assistant Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra Cheaper content, but not just yet. Thats the message in the federal governments response to the parallel import recommendations by the Harper...