A new reality-based movie in which observers react to the outlandish antics of Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen is creating work for defense lawyers even before its scheduled July 10…
A federal judge has upheld a law immunizing telecommunications companies from liability for participating in the government’s warrantless wiretapping program and dismissed dozens of lawsuits seeking damages.
Once consumer websites began rating everything from restaurants to dog groomers, it was only a matter of time before doctors found their care and bedside manner critiqued online.
Siding with the media and lawyers representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., today gave the government a July 29 deadline.…
Two Connecticut personal injury lawyers are suing Google, contending that the Internet search engine improperly sold advertising rights concerning their law firm name to a competitor.
Jonathan Lee Riches admittedly has participated in a lot of litigation. But the federal prison inmate says the Guiness Book of World Records has it wrong concerning some of the…
A Texas real estate agent who blogged about celebrity Anna Nicole Smith’s mother spent the weekend in jail after being cited for contempt by a state-court judge.
A federal judge in South Carolina has granted an injunction sought by Craigslist Inc. in a declaratory judgment action against the state’s attorney general.
Saying that First Amendment protections are not absolute, a federal judge in New York has scheduled a hearing to consider whether the media’s repeated publication of photographs of an apparently…
Threatened with potential criminal prosecution over its role in allegedly promoting prostitution through Internet ads posted by third parties on its website, Craiglist Inc. has responded with a pre-emptive strike.
A scheduled sentencing today has been postponed for a 50-year-old Missouri mom convicted of violating a federal statute in an unusual cyberbullying case.
Although the social networking phenomenon is so new that best practices are still being developed, Twitter “tweets” are a potential litigation minefield for attorneys, their employers and other businesses.
Citing pending litigation under the Freedom of Information Act, the CIA has declined a request by Richard Cheney to declassify two documents that the former vice president contends would show…
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