A German couple are not liable for the filesharing activities of their 13-year old son because they told him unauthorized downloading and sharing of copyrighted material was illegal,and they were unaware the boy violated this ...
A U.S.district judge has approved a request for class action in a lawsuit against pizza maker Papa John's International for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of text spam messages. Seattle law firm Heyrich Kalish ...
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Computerworld-A federal judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of a provision in a just-enacted California state law that requires all registered sex-offenders to immediately turn over the all of their Internet identifiers and the names ...
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WASHINGTON --- The majority of merchant plaintiffs in a multibillion-dollar proposed antitrust settlement over credit card swiping fees now say they oppose the agreement with Visa, MasterCard and some of the nation's largest banks. "The ...
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Alteris has acquired Los Angeles-based Sonoma Risk Insurance, which provides contract litigation insurance (CLI) in US. Under the terms of the agreement, Sonoma Risk Insurance will continue to provide products, plaintiff contract ...
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Oracle has filed suit against Texas company Advanced Dynamic Interfaces, seeking to have an intellectual-property action it filed against 20 users of Oracle software tossed out of court. The companies are all users of Oracle's Application ...
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IDG News Service - A U.S. District Court judge has rejected a proposed settlement in a lawsuit that alleges Facebook violated users' rights by using their names and recommendations of advertisers to be publicized through a Sponsored Stories ...
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IDG News Service-Attorneys general from 24 states on Thursday announced they have reached settlement agreements with LCD makers LG Display,AU Optronics and Toshiba,who will pay close to$571 million end the price-fixing case against them. ...
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