Last week, after the Federal Communications Commission finalized “open Internet” rules for the sharing of broadband resources, observers began awaiting the expected lawsuits from wireless carriers.
Disappointed both with the original $675,000 federal jury verdict against him in a music downloading case and the “equally as insane” $67,500 to which a trial judge subsequently reduced the…
Retirement has allowed former U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter a long-awaited chance to catch up on his reading in between stints on the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of…
For years, Michelle Kosilek has been living as a woman in a men’s prison in Massachusetts, with the help of female hormone and hair-removal treatments.
Some $43 million was stolen in conventional bricks-and-mortar robberies, heists and stickups of U.S. banks last year. Meanwhile, cybercrooks stole hundreds of millions in what is being called a national…
Claiming that he was treated as a “token black associate” despite credentials including a degree from Harvard Law School and a clerkship on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of…
An activist programmer and former fellow at Harvard University’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics is facing federal criminal charges for allegedly hacking into the computer network at Massachusetts Institute…
Corrected: A blind student at Vermont Law School has filed a federal lawsuit against the National Conference of Bar Examiners, seeking permission to use the same screenreader software she relies…
The Winklevoss twins have abandoned their effort to get the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn their $65 million settlement with Facebook Inc. over their claims that the social networking site…
For 16 years, Boston mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger’s fugitive status, after he escaped with help from a corrupt FBI agent, has been an embarrassment to the federal government.
It’s less convenient. But a business in Maine that lost $345,000 in 2009 when cyber crooks tried to siphon well over half a million from its online account has now…
A postal inspector and a paralegal who allegedly had a secret romance while working on opposing sides during a lawyer’s mortgage fraud trial have been charged with perjury and obstruction…
Seeking to satisfy a tax debt of over $300,000 owed by a former New Hampshire lawyer who stole over $1 million from clients, the Internal Revenue Service is planning to…
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