Japanese automaker Toyota Motors has agreed to pay its vehicle owners $1.6bn to settle a lawsuit over sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) reports in 2009 and 2010, which allegedly caused their vehicles to lose value. The settlement, ...
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A federal court judge in New Jersey on Wednesday agreed to allow the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and several other organizations to seek the dismissal of a closely watched data breach lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission against ...
Tags: Wyndham Lawsuit, Computer
The owner of the Sears Hometown store here is spearheading a C$100 million class action lawsuit against Sears Canada and its U.S.-based parent, Sears Holdings, alleging the publicly held retailer "breached its legal obligations by depriving ...
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An investor who purchased shares of LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York over alleged violations of Federal Securities Laws by SemiLEDs in connection ...
Several influential environmental groups are gearing up to sue the Obama administration for refusing to regulate US coal mines as major emitters of methane, a greenhouse gas that many scientists say is fueling climate change. Ashley ...
Microsoft on Monday said it will appeal a trademark lawsuit over its SkyDrive cloud storage service it lost to the British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) Group. BSkyB sued Microsoft in order to prevent Microsoft from using "SkyDrive" as the ...
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Personal lines insurer Allstate Insurance Company has filed a $6.6m lawsuit against 47 durable medical supply entities and their respective individual owners in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The 80 New York ...
The U.S. International Trade Commission has decided to investigate HTC for patent infringement based on a complaint Nokia filed in May that targets several phones from the Taiwanese handset maker, including the HTC One. Nokia's complaint ...
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will launch an investigation of the business practices of so-called patent trolls in an effort to understand whether those companies are harming competition and consumers, the agency's chairwoman said. As ...
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More than 30 computer scientists signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and make technology more expensive. The amicus brief was filed by the ...
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Intellectual Ventures, a large patent-licensing firm, has filed a second patent-infringement lawsuit against Motorola Mobility while its first patent lawsuit is still pending in a Delaware count. The patent-licensing firm filed its second ...
US stocks pushed to the highest levels in nearly three weeks as investors await news on whether the Federal Reserve will pull back on its stimulus measures. Small-company stocks were among the best performers in Tuesday's rally, with the ...
EPA’s Pinocchio nose continues to grow longer. Despite a barrage of criticism following the admitted release of private farmer data to three environmental groups after a Freedom of Information Act request, EPA has clammed up and ...
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The Swedish Nacka District Court has ruled that Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Denmark to face hacking charges, the court confirmed Tuesday. The green light to extradite Svartholm Warg was given Monday, ...
Tags: Pirate Bay, Svartholm Warg, Hacking Charges
The attorneys general of several states are turning up the heat on Google, concerned that the search engine giant makes it easier for criminals to sell illegal drugs online, engage in human trafficking and peddle pirated intellectual ...
Tags: Google, Human Trafficking, Drugs