Upholding a small company’s stunning patent-infringement win against the world’s biggest software seller, a federal appeals court today not only upheld a $290 million verdict in favor of I4i LP…
In a new chapter of an ongoing saga of allegations against a so-called private investigator to the stars concerning claimed dirty litigation tactics in high-profile celebrity cases, a magazine editor…
A former South Dakota lawmaker has copyrighted his own name and is forbidding newspapers to use it without advance permission, threatening a penalty of $500,000 or more if they violate…
Stopped by police in a Chicago suburb for allegedly driving a car with an expired license plate, Eran Best says she was subsequently humiliated when the incident—which eventually included a…
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police officers have a constitutional right to privacy in their personal text messages sent on city-owned pagers.
An Ohio judge’s e-mails to a newspaper about an alleged serial murderer whose case he was later assigned have reportedly led him to step down from the upcoming trial.
Embarrassed by London’s reputation as a libel mecca that draws litigation from purportedly aggrieved claimants from around the world, British lawmakers appear poised to make changes to the 19th-century libel…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., held the U.S. Department of Defense in civil contempt of court today for disobeying a prior court order that required “the appropriate agency” to…
A deadlocked jury forced a mistrial today in the case of a so-called hate blogger accused of threatening three federal appeals court judges in an Internet tirade over an opinion…
The daughter of a woman killed in a car accident caused by a driver talking on his cell phone has sued the phone maker and the service provider, contending they…
Authorities arrested a record company executive earlier this month for allegedly refusing to send out a Twitter message to help restore order among an unruly throng of some 3,000 people…
Citing a new federal law that allows the government to withhold photographs of detainees in Afghanistan and Iraq reportedly being abused by their United States captors, the nation’s top court…
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