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1. Red Hat attacks ‘patent trolls’

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Linux outfit Red Hat has filed a petition in the US Supreme Court seeking to outlaw software patents. Linux outfit Red Hat has filed a petition in the US Supreme Court seeking to outlaw software patents. ...

2. British blogger sued for defamation

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... said in a media release that it had filed suit in the NSW Supreme Court against Bruce Everiss "for posting defamatory and false statements online about the company and the game. The blogger apparently ...

3. Dell hit for $4 million for deception

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... with warranty service and promised rebates. The settlement follows a decision of the New York Supreme Court, Albany County, which sustained Attorney General Cuomo's claims that Dell had engaged in fraud, ...

4. Claws out as Skanks of New York blogger named

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   ... a reporter, 'You wish you had my life.' Port's lawyer says she plans to pursue all legal options against Google for revealing her identity, even if it means taking the case all the way to the US Supreme ...

5. Catfight on catwalk as Google ordered to name Skanks of New York blogger

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... must reveal the name of the disenchanted blogger who posted pictures of Cohen in 'provocative poses' and described her as 'The skankiest in NYC'. The Manhattan Supreme Court judge has announced that ...

6. P2P pirate ruling constitutional

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... first attacks the defendant’s reliance on the famous BMW v. Gore case, in which the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down a jury’s punitive damages award, finding that at 100 times actual damages the verdict ...

7. Another judge sides with the MPAA over DVD copies

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   ... is to go to the Supreme Court of California. We're confident that we're not in breach of our contract with the DVD CCA and until then our products remain fully legal and licensed." "This is yet another ...

8. Feds probe major carriers over possible anti-trust violations

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... said Varney. "The Division will return to tried and true case law and Supreme Court precedent in enforcing the antitrust laws. The recent developments in the marketplace should make it clear that we can ...

9. California Attorney General demands Supreme Court resurrect violent video game ban

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   California Attorney General Jerry Brown has demanded that the US Supreme Court resurrect a law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. California Attorney General Jerry Brown ...

10. Intel and AMD fail to resolve x86 cross-license dispute

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... agreement in 1993 must cease. This unprecedented separation of an entrenched technology base (x86 CPUs) has forced the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene, as it did in the 2000 presidential election. Annapolis ...

11. ISOHunt search site lawsuit could make Google, Yahoo, others illegal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... site pirates music. The company's president, Gary Fung, wants Canada's Supreme Court to rule on the legality of search engines being used to identify material which may ultimately be used illegally to ...

12. Courtrooms adapting to the YouTube world?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The Supreme Court is moving into an era where video is becoming a staple everywhere, including in the courtroom. The first issue of this arose when a YouTube video link was put before the court via a ...

13. Maryland's Supreme Court rules anonymous web posting is protected

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    In Maryland, the state's Supreme Court has ruled that websites involved in defamation suits cannot be forced to reveal the identity of readers who post anonymous comments on their website, citing that ...

14. California appeals court ruling: Okay for minors to buy violent video games

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... to appeal the ruling all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Chicago (IL) - Last Friday, a three-judge panel for The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in California issued a unanimous ruling protecting ...

15. Obama questions the constitutionality of copyright fines

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... been settled for damages ranging anywhere from $750 per song to $150,000 per song outside of the court room. It is currently in question whether or not the fines go against U.S. Supreme Court precedent. ...

16. Student sues to expunge record of "Cyberbullying" charge

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Moines case in which three Iowa students were suspended for wearing black armbands aiming to protest the government's policy in Vietnam; the students won the case at the Supreme Court level.  ...

17. U.S. Supreme Court kills The Child Online Protection Act without a hearing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... to keep websites from making "harmful content" available to minors. In litigation since passage, the U.S. Supreme Court finally killed the bill yesterday by refusing to give it a hearing - allowing the ...

18. The White House starts blogging, goes web 2.0 and social

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... website. In addition to video, blog posts and site articles put emphasis on eye-catching slideshows like this Obama's visit to the Supreme Court. The site's slideshow section has kicked off with several ...

19. Ruling: Amazon and Overstock must pay out-of-state sales tax in New York

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      A New York Supreme Court judge ruled yesterday that Amazon and Overstock must pay sales tax on sales conducted with residents living within the state of New York. The ruling comes following an 8-month ...

20. Opinion: A look at television history, from analog to digital

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... By Me. TV served as a supplement, not a replacement for normal life living activities.Color TV Black and white TVs reigned supreme even until the late 1970s or early 1980s in some areas, long after ...

21. Sony cuts down on discounts, promotes stress-free shopping (of course)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... antitrust laws basically prevented manufacturers from telling retailers how much they could charge for their goods. Last year, the Supreme Court overturned the concept and said that a court must consider ...

22. Barack Obama presumptive 44th president of the United States

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... been the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, by repeating the Oath of Office specified in Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, which reads: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) ...

23. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... chip ends and the Supreme Court of California sides with AMD. 1995: K6 launches as Intel Pentium rival and first independently designed CPU. 1996: AMD acquires microprocessor company NexGen for rights ...

24. Supreme Court denies EchoStar appeal against Tivo

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    The United States Supreme Court denied EchoStar's petition to review the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruling that upheld a judgment of patent infringement, award of damages ...

25. Wife’s tearful YouTube rant earns her a divorce and eviction

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... sex life and prenuptial agreement.  The husband, Philip Smith, sued Tricia for spousal abuse for the callous nature of the videos and a New York state Supreme Court agreed.  Now, Tricia has ...

26. T-Mobile sues Starbucks over alleged secret AT&T Wi-Fi deal

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      T-Mobile is suing Starbucks over a new Wi-Fi plan that allows AT&T customers to allegedly piggyback onto T-Mobile’s bandwidth.  In the lawsuit filed at the New York Supreme Court, T-Mobile ...

27. Supreme Court gives go ahead to Novell vs. Microsoft antitrust suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

      Microsoft and Novell are currently known as partners, but an anti-trust lawsuit will soon severely test that “marriage”.  The United States Supreme Court is allowing Novell to sue Microsoft ...

28. VA Supreme Court says 1st Amendment doesn't cover spam

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in the Virginia Supreme Court, and with a close 4-3 vote among justices, the conviction was upheld.  The majority justices said bulk e-mail messages are not covered by citizens' right to "freedom ...

29. Death row inmate executed after glitch prevents appeal

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... Richard was scheduled to be executed at 6:00 PM by lethal injection for the rape and murder of Marguerite Dixon in 1986.  Less than 24 hours before his scheduled execution, the Supreme Court agreed ...

30. Employee class action suit may hit Circuit City

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    The California Supreme Court ruled this week that Circuit City employees may sue the store for labor law violations, despite arbitration agreements they may have signed years ago. Sacramento (CA) - The ...

31. Judge says eBay can still use "Buy It Now” feature

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... but MercExchange appealed to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and won the injunction.  eBay then appealed that decision to the Supreme Court in May 2006.  The Supreme Court overturned ...

32. German courts mandate eBay to block harmful listing to kids

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Berlin (Germany) – The German Federal Supreme Court has ruled that eBay must remove listings that contain items that are “morally harmful” to teenagers and kids.  The listings would ...

33. Got chest pains? Consult your mobile phone

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... clips. Mobile phone penetration in Singapore is 98%, according to government sources and citizens can access a broad range of services through their phones.  The country’s Supreme Court sends ...

34. Dude you got a lawsuit! – New York sues Dell

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed the lawsuit in the state’s Supreme Court and says Dell used bait and switch tactics to raise computer loan interest rates and also made customer service ...

35. Court favors Microsoft in patent fight

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    The Supreme Court sided with Microsoft Corp. on Monday in a case that restricts the reach of U.S. patents overseas.  In a 7-1 decision, the court found that Microsoft is not liable in a patent dispute ...

36. Net porn law unconstitutional

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... magazines or video. The federal judge is not the first to have looked over the 1998 law, and it went as far as the Supreme Court, though they didn't pass final judgement on the law at the time. This ...

37. Roller Coaster Tycoon lawsuit goes to high UK court

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... case to the House of Lords, which is essentially the UK version of the US Supreme Court. In total, says Sawyer, Atari owes him $4.8 million because he was underpaid between 1999 and 2001.  He alleges ...

38. Jack Thompson faces Florida bar over questionable conduct

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... claims Thompson violated more than 30 times. The official move from the state organization, which will be handled by Florida's Supreme Court, could lead to the revoking of Thompson's license to ...

39. Maryland court to webcast trials

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... such that nearly half of the states have some sort of public viewing access to the courts. New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Ohio are among the states that broadcast live sessions of their state Supreme Court ...

40. California bloggers get defamation immunity

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thanks to a California Supreme Court ruling, defamation can now be spread throughout the blogosphere without any legal consequences. The decision overturned a lower court's decision and makes bloggers ...

41. Supreme Court to review Microsoft patent case

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to consider an appeal by Microsoft in a dispute over whether the company should be liable for damages overseas for infringing a software patent owned by AT&T. ...

42. U.S. court rules against Morpheus

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... $25 million. Last year, a landmark Supreme Court ruling made it clear that technology companies who distribute P2P clients could be held legally liable if they encouraged copyright infringement. StreamCast ...

43. RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing 'contained'

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Nearly a year after the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling against online music file-sharing services, the CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America says unauthorized song swapping ...

44. US high court vacates eBay patent dispute ruling

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

      The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday set aside a patent injunction against online auctioneer eBay Inc., but also rejected a key argument made by the company that could have narrowed the rights of patent ...

45. Could new broadband reforms lead to a "fast lane" for Google and Yahoo?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... context of telecom service rather than replacing it altogether with a whole new acronym. "Cable service is interstate in nature, as the Supreme Court has long recognized," Rep. Barton noted. "Most video ...

46. Michigan violent video game law struck down hard in US District Court

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    ... credibility of the notion of violent video game legislation as a whole could wind up before the US Supreme Court.  ...

47. Federal judge to order Google to turn over search information

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... piece of software. COPA has been struck down several times, but the Supreme Court advised the government to either reword the act or to prove that filters don't work well. That is where the search engine ...

48. Finnish group to test cellphone radiation on human skin

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... States Supreme Court refused to throw out several class-action suits, which totaled several hundred million dollars, against Motorola, Nokia, Nextel Communications, Sprint and Cingular Wireless. Lower ...

49. Windows ActiveX patch addresses functionality disputed by Eolas

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to the US Supreme Court, which declined to hear its case last November. Microsoft's Help and Support page indicates that the company has been working - curiously enough - with Google, among other companies, ...

50. Victory for RIM: No injunction, but judge urges parties to settle

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... in which case, if he imposes a new injunction on just the remaining seven claims, RIM could be allowed to re-launch its entire appeals cycle. Last month, the US Supreme Court declined to hear RIM's appeal, ...