Ruling on a defendant’s argument that a so-called SLAPP law precluded a tort claim for alleged cyberbullying, a divided California appeals court has given the green light to the defamation…
A Connecticut judge has dismissed an advertising complaint brought against Google by a New Haven personal injury firm, agreeing with the Internet search engine giant that the lawsuit should have…
Doctors for Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain are taking a look at an obscure 1994 article from a Korean medical journal as a result of an online appeal for…
In an unusual lawsuit filed in November, a Wisconsin law firm claimed that a competitor had violated state privacy law by purchasing its name from several search engines for use…
Authorities in Boston have unveiled the Real Time Crime Center, a new camera network that helps authorities not only identify suspects but provide police with potentially lifesaving information about what…
Attracted by the opportunity to market their wedding-related products and services to a huge group of brides-to-be, hundreds of would-be exhibitors paid $350 to $4,000 for a chance to promote…
Bloggers who filed suit two years ago against the City of New York to obtain the same press privileges afforded to traditional journalists from brick-and-mortar enterprises are closer to a…
The Federal Trade Commission says it will appeal a federal judge’s decision upholding the American Bar Association’s position that the so-called Red Flags Rule doesn’t apply to lawyers.
In a series of new investigations related to the prior conduct of a biology professor accused of shooting three colleagues to death and wounding three others at a faculty meeting…
In a litigation tactic that reportedly has never been tried before to combat a global malicious software attack, Microsoft Corp. won a sealed temporary restraining order in an ex parte…
The operators of a popular Internet customer review site for restaurants and small businesses have been sued by two law firms alleging unfair business practices and an “extortion scheme.”
Seeking to prevent a repeat of the alleged use of a school-issued laptop computer to spy on a suburban Philadelphia student at his home, a federal judge has approved a…
An upscale suburban Philadelphia school district accused in a lawsuit of spying on a student at home via the webcam in his school-provided laptop computer says it didn’t do it.
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