Not giving up till the end, Troy Davis kept fighting till the last moment, till his execution on Wednesday night. The Georgia man was executed 20 years after he was convicted of the fatal shooting of Mark Macphail, a police officer, despite a plea for clemency from people around the world.
Drishya Nair
Sep 22, 2011
For the second time in a week's duration, the Supreme Court halted a planned execution in Texas by intervening in the final hours of the execution.
Shailesh Shrivastava
Sep 21, 2011
The Supreme Court on Thursday held back the execution of Duane Buck, who was convicted in a double murder case dating back to 1995, after his attorney argued that racial considerations had plagued the trial.
Drishya Nair
Sep 16, 2011
The squashing of California's video game law by the Supreme Court has come as a ray of hope for entertainment industry at large.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 28, 2011
The court didn’t find any convincing evidence to deny the sale of the video games.
Prarthito Maity
Jun 28, 2011
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is relieved after the US Supreme Court blocked a gigantic class action lawsuit against the retailer from being certified.
IBT Staff Reporter
Jun 20, 2011
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a record $290 million jury verdict against Microsoft for infringing a small Canadian company's patent.
Satya Nagendra Padala
Jun 10, 2011
LimeWire, a major peer-to-peer (P2P) company that was accused by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of being a platform for illegal music transfers, has been let off lightly as it settled the dispute at $105 million, far short of $1.4 billion that was first sought by the plaintiffs.
IBT Staff Reporter
May 14, 2011
Some facts about US nuclear industry in the wake of a second explosion at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 14, 2011
A case that came up for hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, involving Stanford University and Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche, is expected to clarify a landmark intellectual property rights law that lays down the rules for grant of patents for federally funded inventions.
IBT Staff Reporter
Mar 02, 2011
As US Supreme Court agreed yesterday to give Microsoft a hearing related to a 2009 court order that required it to pay $290 million to i4i for patent infringement related to its high-profile product Microsoft Word, Microsoft itself has been on a buying spree collecting patents that cover a range of its products.
IBT Staff Reporter
Nov 30, 2010
