An international body on human rights will be reviewing surveillance practices by the US government for violations of privacy rights under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said.
Two months prior to the shutdown and eventual filing of bankruptcy protection by Mt Gox, Reuters said the exchange received a civil complaint from a New Yorker over allegations of regulatory compliance and illegal holding of his deposit.
The legal camp of Ryan Ferguson has named the city of Columbia, Missouri and 12 others for violating his civil rights when he was wrongfully convicted and detained for the murder of Columbia Tribune sports editor Kent Heitholt, CNN said.
The lawyers for Gawker said that the lawsuit filed by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino over the linking of the latter's unproduced script lacked merit as the former needed to substantiate that the news blog directly infringed the director's copyrighted material.
