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Farm-fresh Infringement : Can you violate a patent by planting some seeds?
- 6 Apr 2012
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- April 06 2012 Farming GMO's Government Law Monsanto Patents Seeds Supreme Court United States
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"Can a farmer commit patent infringement just by planting soybeans he bought on the open market? This week, the Supreme Court asked the Obama administration to weigh in on the question. The Court is pondering an appeals court decision saying that such planting can, in fact, infringe patents."

via arstechnica.com

"Self-Replicating Inventions : Supreme Court asks for Government’s Views in Monsanto Patent Exhaustion Case
By Dennis Crouch

Bowman v. Monsanto (Supreme Court Docket No. 11-796, 2012)

In 2011, the Federal Circuit again affirmed that Monsanto's genetically modified seeds patents can be used to stop farmers from saving and replanting the GM seeds. The farmer, Vernon Bowman, then petitioned the Supreme Court asking for a writ of certiorari ."
How Our Laws Are Made
- 12 Mar 2012
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- Bills Congress Government House of Representatives Infographic Law March 12 2012 Process United States
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"As the national debt and budget issues monopolize the airwaves, it strikes me how little I remember from my undergraduate government courses. I can rattle off the names of several key representatives and senators, but the inner workings of their roles conjuring a bill into a law are a bit fuzzy. If you have found yourself in a similar predicament (or you are a political science buff who thrives on clever ways to explain governmental processes) this infographic is for you.

With the aesthetics of The Game of Life, today’s infographic thoroughly walks us through the trip a bill takes from introduction into the House of Representatives through publication as an official law."

via dailyinfographic.com
10 Absurd Laws from Around the World
- 14 Jan 2012
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- Absurdities January 14 2012 Law
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"No pig may be called Napoleon by its Owner"

"Yes, the great French general and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, responsible for conquering most of Europe during the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815), before finally being bested at Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington. The French had the utmost respect for him, and it is thought that George Orwell’s famous short story, Animal Farm, in which the pig representing Stalin was named Napoleon, launched the laws publication. Even in France, the pig is often referred to as “Caesar” rather than “Napoleon” in the book, but this is more due to Napoleon being represented as Stalin rather than being represented as a pig. Today, however, many people consider the law a joke and hardly anyone respects it, let alone know it exists."

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Death Sentences and Executions 2010
- 29 Mar 2011
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- 29Mar11 Death Executions Infographic Law Statistics World
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This maps shows death sentence and executions in 2010. More than two-thirds of the countries of the world have abolished the death penalty in law or in practice. While 58 countries retained the death penalty in 2010, most did not use it.

23 countries were known to have carried out executions, killing a total of 523 people; however, this figure does not include the thousands of executions that were likely to have taken place in China, which again refused to divulge figures on its use of the death penalty.

Date Published: 28 March 2011

via chartsbin.com
GM sugar beets “shall be removed from the ground” says US judge
- 1 Dec 2010
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- 12.1.10 Agriculture Ecology Enviroment Government Law
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"A federal judge has halted an attempt to grow banned genetically modified sugar beets in the United States.

The herbicide-tolerant beets represent a whopping 95% of the sugar beets sold in the US and about half of the sugar. The were first brought to market n 2007 but last August the DC-based Center for Food Safety and other advocacy organizations successfully sued to ban the beets, pointing out that an environmental impact statement has not yet been completed, as US law requires."

via blogs.nature.com
Stop the Internet Blacklist !
- 19 Nov 2010
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- 11.19.10 Government Law internet
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The United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block. (The first vote is scheduled Thursday, November 18 !)

"We all use the web now for all kinds of parts our lives, some trivial, some critical to our life as part of a social world. In the spirit going back to Magna Carta, we require a principle that: No person or organization shall be deprived of their ability to connect to others at will without due process of law, with the presumption of innocence until found guilty. Neither governments nor corporations should be allowed to use disconnection from the Internet as a way of arbitrarily furthering their own aims."
says Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web. "

via demandprogress.org
Coming to a Court Near You : Sharia Law
- 6 Jun 2010
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via news.bbc.co.uk

Execution of a teenage girl

Farm-fresh Infringement : Can you violate a patent by planting some seeds?

How Our Laws Are Made

10 Absurd Laws from Around the World

Death Sentences and Executions 2010

GM sugar beets “shall be removed from the ground” says US judge

Stop the Internet Blacklist !

Coming to a Court Near You : Sharia Law

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