On Monday, in what some are considering a defining move to shift power from the hands of the military to civilian authority, newly elected Egyptian president Mohammad Morsi dismissed a number of top military officials and pushed to early retirement Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi, who served as the head of ad hoc military council.
On Friday, according to a “Forbes Richest Author List 2012,” the author who has become famous for his legal thrillers is labeled as the richest writer of the year, with a reported $94 million for 14 of his books published between 2011 and 2012.
After skipping a routine court appearance on Wednesday, Mark O’mara told a Florida court on Thursday that George Zimmerman will seek to dismiss the second-degree murder charges against him in the shooting of 17–year-old Travyon Martin.
In April U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson in the case of Bland v. Roberts that Shreiff B.J. Roberts had the right to fire six employees for "Liking" his opponent's Facebook Campaign page. This week the social media Facebook itself entered the legal battle arguing that the "Like" button is a form of speech and therefore protected by the First Amendment freedom of speech
