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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 for Google in a case in which tech giant Oracle accused it of illegally copying its code. The decision is the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two companies. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption toggle… Source link

Attempting to predict a U.S. Supreme Court decision based on the tone and tenacity of the questions that justices ask attorneys during oral arguments has proven to be a fruitless exercise since, well, about 1789. It’s always best to assume nothing. So who knows what the nine current justices will decide in NCAA v. Alston — a case that boils down to, in the most general of descriptions, whether college athletes can be paid above and beyond their currently allotted scholarship. A decision… Source link

The Guardian Covid has killed 500,000 in the US. That’s more than the population of Miami This tragedy was preventable. It happened because Republican politicians believe some people are worth more than others ‘Coronavirus is different, generating neither equal suffering nor equal concern.’ Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP Five hundred thousand deaths can be hard to picture. But we have to try. Imagine, for instance, that everyone in Miami, Colorado Springs or Minneapolis died in the course… Source link

Williams developing ‘stone cold’ reputation on court originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago Not much fazes Patrick Williams. A dagger 3-pointer to cap a 25-point comeback against the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday? The 19-year-old went deadpan. How about a 52-foot heave to beat the third quarter buzzer in Saturday’s win over the Sacramento Kings? “It was a 3,” Williams said after the game, face straight as an arrow. “I’ve made 3s before.” In fact, the most emotion Williams flashed the entire… Source link

(AP) – Google is pushing back in court this week on antitrust claims brought against it by the Justice Department two months ago. In a legal filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Google denied or partially rejected almost 200 specific complaints against it. On only one count, that Google was “founded in Menlo Park garage 22 years ago,” did the company side with the Justice Department. It said that people use its search engine “because they choose to, not… Source link

Kyrie Irving returned to TD Garden on Friday night for his first matchup in Boston since he left the Celtics for Brooklyn. Yet before he took the court for the Nets’ 113-89 preseason win against the Celtics, Irving had to cleanse the arena. Kyrie Irving burns sage at TD Garden Irving, before warming up on Friday, circled the court while burning sage. Burning sage, or smudging, is a practice often used by Native Americans and other indigenous groups to cleanse something, be that a person or a… Source link

By Jan Wolfe and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump and 17 U.S. states on Wednesday threw their support behind a long-shot lawsuit by Texas seeking to overturn his election loss by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out the voting results in four states. Trump, defeated by President-elect Joe Biden in the Nov. 3 election, filed a motion with the court asking the nine justices to let him intervene and become a plaintiff in the suit filed on Tuesday by… Source link

The Daily Beast Newborn Boys Were Dumped in Chicago Trash 17 Years Ago. Cops Just Cracked the Case. Seventeen years ago, a Waste Management employee was emptying trash bins in Cook County’s Stickney Township when she found a pair of newborn twins. The infants were dead, and their umbilical cords were still attached, according to Chicago Tribune reporting at the time. During the course of their investigation back then, police spoke with neighbors and pregnant women in the area, but never… Source link

National Review Spain’s Government Declares War on the Spanish Language It might seem like a headline from a satirical newspaper, but it is not: Spanish will no longer be the official language of the Spanish State or the lingua franca in education. It is part of the socialist-Communist government’s new education law. This war on the Spanish language is the ransom that socialist prime minister Pedro Sánchez has to pay the Catalan nationalists of ERC (a party that represents 3 percent of… Source link

WASHINGTON (AP) — With coronavirus cases surging again nationwide, the Supreme Court barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The justices split 5-4 late Wednesday night, with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the majority. It was the conservative’s first publicly discernible vote as a justice. The court’s three liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts dissented. The move was a shift for the… Source link