A bipartisan group of Senators is questioning the FBI on its use of an administrative subpoena known as a National Security Letter to attempt to obtain records from the Internet…
A Brooklyn judge has filed a $10 million defamation suit against the New York Daily News for publishing two columns that claimed he improperly presided over a case involving a…
Federal prosecutors in Boise, Idaho, filed a motion yesterday seeking to close the courtroom for a high-profile sentencing in a case that reportedly involves child sexual abuse as well as…
Updated: No matter how many extramarital affairs star baseball pitcher Roger Clemens may or may not have had, or with whom, there’s only one possible scenario in which they…
In two separate lawsuits, the widow of John Lennon is seeking to protect her late husband’s memory from commercial exploitation. Yoko Ono reportedly wants to force the removal of an…
An Oregon newspaper scored a victory this week when a judge ordered the Oregon Health & Science University to release the names of unclaimed bodies that are donated to the…
The mother of the late Anna Nicole Smith has filed defamation suit in Texas against Smith’s former lawyer and several media organizations, including the popular celebrity gossip site TMZ.com.
Concerns about potential interference by major Internet service providers with free and equal access by all Web surfers aren’t severe enough to require legislation at this time, the chairman of…
A nonprofit publisher of legal self-help volumes intended for incarcerated criminals has sued Massachusetts over a claimed state ban on distribution of its books throughout the prison system.
A Manhattan judge has refused to dismiss a defamation suit brought against a New York legal aid lawyer, because he wrote it as a friend of the court rather than…
An Internet site about a federal lawsuit that 38 Duke University men’s lacrosse team players on the 2006 team filed against the school and the city of Durham,…
A former solicitor general and a Google executive with an engineering background are jointly at the helm of a new commission formed to explore how best to serve the information…
Does an encyclopedia of Harry Potter lore take too much and do too little, simply rearranging the furniture of J.K. Rowling’s famous seven-book series of children’s novels? Or is the…
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