Digital Currency Revolution

S. Korea's high court overturns guilty verdict of man in ‘wrongly-sent’ bitcoins case

Jun 21, 2022 23:27 pm UTC| Law Digital Currency Economy Business

The South Korean Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict against a 32-year-old man in a breach of trust charge for keeping bitcoins inadvertently sent to him due to misinterpretations of the principles of law. The...

UK work visa for elite graduates is exclusive and based on flawed assumptions

Jun 21, 2022 22:06 pm UTC| Law

The UK governments announcement of a new work visa option aimed at attracting top graduates has elicited some backlash because the list of eligible institutions features no universities from Africa, Latin America or South...

Costco sued for mistreating chickens

Jun 18, 2022 23:35 pm UTC| Law Economy Business

The Legal Impact for Chickens had filed a lawsuit on behalf of two Costco shareholders against the companys directors and officers who have caused the neglect and abandonment of chickens in violation of state law in...

Space Needle's owner sues Seattle coffee shop over logo

Jun 14, 2022 09:26 am UTC| Law Economy Business

The owner of Seattles iconic Space Needle has sued Local Coffee Spot in a US District Court to compel it to redesign its cups as its logo looks a bit too much like its own. The lawsuit suggests that Local Coffee Spots...

Jury rules Reckitt did not steal trade secrets for its premature-ejaculation spray K-Y

Jun 12, 2022 16:07 pm UTC| Law Economy Business Health

UK consumer goods giant Reckitt Benckiser LLC created its K-Y-branded premature ejaculation spray without stealing trade secrets from a small pharmaceutical company, according to a jury in a New Jersey federal...

Conservative Supreme Court justices disagree about how to read the law

Jun 09, 2022 08:40 am UTC| Law

With a 6-3 majority, conservative justices on the Supreme Court may appear poised to hand down decisions that the Republican presidents who appointed them would applaud. As a political scientist who has published...

New Balance sues Steve Madden over “deliberate knock-offs”

Jun 08, 2022 22:25 pm UTC| Business Law Sports Economy Life

New Balance is suing Steve Madden for deliberately copying its patent-protected 327 model sneaker in an attempt to piggyback on the commercial and critical success of the 327 design. The US District Court for the...