That means there would have been 5 votes to retain the 1970s era ban on capital punishment, and the USA could have become one of the world leaders in the global movement towards abolition, rather than one of its primary obstacles. [read post]

You can separately subscribe to the General Global Week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com]   Highlights this week included: CAFC: Qualcomm penalised for failure to disclose patents to standard setting organisation and for litigation misconduct in failing to produce evidence: Qualcomm Inc v Broadcom Corp (IP Law Observer) (Patently-O) (Promote the Progress) (Law360) (Patent Prospector) (Hal Wegner) (PLI) European Court of Justice’ dilution ruling in… [read post]