Law & Society

According to a Bloomberg report, a UK court stood by with the arrest by authorities of David Miranda, the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald did the story on Edward Snowden's claims of e-mail surveillance done by the US government to civilians.

Instead of appealing to an earlier court rejection of its previous rules on net neutrality, the US Federal Communications Commission announced that it will be introducing a new set of guidelines under its responsibilities as a regulator as underlined by last month's Court of Appeals ruling, the Wall Street Journal said.

The Associated Press quoted one of the complainants, Nancy Tarsitano Drake, who said that the city of Evansville violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment by allowing a church-sponsored public art installation of 31 plastic crosses.