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@Richard20711534 Vindicated after 3 years
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2012
In what is seen as a costly victory for free speech, a UK court dismissed a libel claim against the science journal, Nature. Egyptian physicist Mohamed El Naschie filed the claim in 2009 after Nature reported he abused his position as an editor of a journal to publish numerous self-authored papers without subjecting them to peer review.
A new lease of life
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2012
An Iceland court has ruled that payment firm Valitor must reopen the merchant services account for an Icelandic Web host that WikiLeaks uses. Valitor, the Iceland partner of Visa and Master Card, had processed donations to the organisation till December 2010, when the US-led financial blockade choked donations to WikiLeaks.
When battered people took on the pesticide industry
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2012
Today, I want to tell you a true story of extraordinary courage. The past week, I was in Kasaragod, a district in Kerala, splendid in beauty and with abundant natural resources, but destroyed by the toxic chemical, endosulfan.
News snippets
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2012
>> Twitter is contesting a US court order directing it to hand over the message history of one of its users. The case pertains to Malcolm Harris, managing editor of New Inquiry, who was arrested in October 2011 along with hundreds of other campaigners during a protest march of Occupy Wall Street across Brooklyn Bridge.
Beyond Bhopal: incentive for unsafe industries
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
Luck plays in strange ways. I was reaching for my scooter when the telephone rang in my office-cum-residence in Bhopal.
The fine line for judges
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2011
Last week just as Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis was set to begin its final arguments in the Supreme Court against the rejection of a patent for its cancer drug Glivec (see ‘Evergreen Novartis’, Down To Earth, September 1-15) there were two swift and stunning developments. A letter was written by five activists complaining to the ministers of law, commerce, health and family welfare about Justice Dalveer Bhandari, one of two judges hearing the case.
Tweet for trouble
Issue Date: Jun 30, 2011
It is a legal victory with ramifications beyond small English town South Tyneside, where the local government claims Twitter released information about the tweeter who allegedly made libellous statements.
SC begins hearing curative petition in Bhopal gas tragedy
Issue Date: Apr 18, 2011
A five-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice H S Kapadia began the hearing of curative petitions in the Bhopal gas tragedy on April 13. While hearing the curative petition filed by the CBI to re-examine the 1996 Supreme Court's judgement, the five-judge bench questioned the CBI for approaching the court after a gap of 16 years and not filing a review petition during these years.
A pre-emptive strike against Monsanto
Issue Date: Apr 30, 2011
If numbers were enough, the case of Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association, et al versus Monsanto would already be won. On March 29, family farmers—in America, this essentially means small farmers; in India it would be redundancy— along with seed dealers and international organic farming organisations, filed an unusual case against the global biotech giant. Unusual because it is a pre-emptive suit which asks a New York federal court whether Monsanto has the right to sue organic farmers for patent infringement if Monsanto’s transgenic seed should land on their property. In all, the plaintiffs are said to represent 270,000 individuals.
