Indian Supreme Court considers constitutionality of gay sex ban. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of India began hearing a set of petitions challenging a colonial-era ban on gay sex. The court upheld the ban in 2013, but the judges’ comments at the recent hearing suggest that the court will strike the ban as unconstitutional.

German court rules Facebook accounts pass to heirs at death. Yesterday, the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that, on death, a person’s Facebook account transfers to their heirs. The court compared the account’s data to a decedent’s diary or letters, which traditionally become part of an estate.