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U.S.
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Madoff's waterfront Florida home, three boats seized
Washington - Prosecutors started seizing the property of the fraudster-financier Bernard Madoff on...
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US court: Prisoners held in Afghanistan can challenge detention
Washington - A US federal court ruled Thursday that a group of prisoners being held by the United...
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Madoff jailed, pleads guilty to massive fraud in court
Washington - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will go to jail after admitting in court Thursday...
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Madoff pleads guilty to massive fraud in court
Washington - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in court Thursday to a...
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Pilot Involved in 2007 San Francisco Oil Spill Pleads Guilty
The pilot behind the massive oil spill in the San Francisco Bay in a November 2007 incident pleaded...
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Federal Panel: California Must Release 58,000 Inmates
Federal judges ruled yesterday that the state of California must reduce the number of inmates in...
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Madoff faces new charges; Congress starts probe
Washington - Bernard Madoff, already awaiting trial in a 50- billion-dollar investment Ponzi...
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Impeachment Panel Provided with Tapes on Blagojevich
Prosecutors agreed to give the impeachment panel in the corruption case of Illinois Governor Rod...
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High Court Dismisses New York Times Libel Suit Appeal
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit of a
former Army scientist against the New...
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Alleged 9-11 plotters offer confessions
Washington - Five alleged plotters of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks offered their full...
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Millennium Bomber’s Sentence Unchanged: 22 Years in Prison
The terrorist who attempted to blow up the Los Angeles International Airport received a re-sentence...
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Mother of Cyberbullying Victim Demands Maximum Penalty
Tina Meier, the mother of 13-year-old Megan Meier, who
committed suicide after becoming the...
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Attorney General Mukasey Collapses During Speech In Washington
Attorney General Michael Mukasey was rushed to the hospital for medical attention after he...
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Locy Cleared of All Charges
A federal appeals court threw out a contempt order requiring fines of up to $5,000 a day against a...
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Supreme Court Allows Sonar Use Among Marine Mammals
The Supreme Court ruled for the first time in its 2008-2009 term, and it was quite a controversial...
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Supreme Court Divided Over Navy Sonar vs. Whales Case
The Supreme Court justices seemed unconvinced Wednesday regarding a decision on whether President...
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Judge Rejects Evidence in Corruption Case of Senator Stevens
The federal judge presiding over Senator Ted Stevens’ corruption case excluded some evidence on...
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Specials
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Extension Granted in Google Book Search Settlement Case
The Justice Department is keeping a close eye on the antitrust implications of the settlement...
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Blagojevich’s Request of Shooting Reality Show Denied by Judge
The plans for a reality show that former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been making were...
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FDA Ordered To Reconsider Restrictions on the Morning-After Pill
No matter she’s over 18 or not, every girl in the US should have access to the morning-after...
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Michigan Man Tricks Apple into Sending him over 9,000 iPod Shuffles
A Michigan man was accused of tricking Apple Inc into sending him more than 9,000 replacement iPod...
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Court Rules Against Age Limit On Video Game Sales
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that the law banning the sale or rental of violent video...
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Former Star Detective Pellicano Sentenced to 15 Years Behind Bars
Anthony Pellicano, former celebrity detective, was sentenced
Monday to 15 years in prison in his...
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In battle of the super-dolls, Barbie beats Bratz
Los Angeles - The battle of the super-dolls has been decided. Mattel, the world's largest toy...
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The Dishonest Mayor
The mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, was arrested by the FBI Monday, on federal charges including...
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MySpace-Related Suicide Case Awaits Verdict
The high profile case involving the suicide of 13 year old Megan Meier will not receive a verdict...
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Federal Judge Orders Former-IBM-Now-Apple Exec to Stop Working
Mark Papermaster, the former IBM chip guru who was recently hired by Apple Inc, was ordered by a...
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Sacramento Anthrax Hoax Suspect Free On Bail
An anthrax hoax that had as target over one hundred locations across the United States led to the...
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Ohio Killer Will Eventually Die By Lethal Injection
The Ohio Supreme Court as well as the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals have both rejected...
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Supreme Court Hears Case on the Effects US Navy Sonar Has on Whales
On
Wednesday, a Supreme Court weighed the pros and cons of a federal
judge's decision to limit...
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Tennessee Student Indicted In Palin’s E-mail Hacking Case
Tuesday, a
federal grand jury in Knoxville
indicted David Kernell of Knoxville, Tennessee,
for...
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Hacker of Palin’s E-Mail Account, David Kernell, Indicted
David Kernell, the 20-year-old Tennessee college student who hacked U.S. vice presidential...
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2 Europeans Charged in the U.S. for DDOS Attacks
Two Europeans were indicted by a Los Angeles federal judge for involvement in the distribution of...
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Judges Sanction San Francisco Health Plan
A three-judge appeals panel of the United States 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals ruled Tuesday that...
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Possible New Trial for Joseph P. Nacchio
The former
chief executive of Qwest Communications International Joseph P. Nacchio could
receive...
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Jammie Thomas Gets A Mistrial And Hopes For A Better Decision
The case of Jammie Thomas, the woman found guilty and
ordered to pay a $220,000 fine, takes a new...
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FBI Raids Target Two Cuyahoga County Judges
The FBI raided the chambers of two judges –
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas judges -- Steven Terry...
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The FTC Charges 5 Companies for Selling Bogus Cancer Cures
The Federal Trade Commission has reportedly accused five companies of making false statements...
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The One of a Kind Harry Is Safe! Fan’s Lexicon Blocked by Court
J.K. Rowling can breathe a sigh of relief. A U.S. judge on
Monday brought to a standstill the...
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FBI Reveals New Details in Anthrax Case
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation, used two...
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The $550,000 Fine Is Overturned by Court
The $550,000 indecency fine against CBS, regarding Janet
Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” at the...
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FCC Heavily Penalized Wardrobe Malfunction Rejected by Appeals Court
It’s been a good four years but the controversy is far from
over – having a federal appeals court...
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Court Cancels CBS Indecency Fine For the 2004 Super Bowl Incident
A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that CBS should not
be held responsible for the event that...
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Gray Wolves Reintroduced on the Endangered Species List
Gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains
were reintroduced on the list of endangered species on...
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Fraudulent Boy Band Manager Ordered to Pay Victims $300M
Lou Pearlman, manager of boy bands Backstreet Boys and ‘N
Sync and cheerful defrauder of numerous...
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Woman in Slave Case Gets 11 Years
A millionaire New York woman who afflicted
years of abuse on two Indonesian house cleaners...
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Anne Hathaway's Ex Is In Over His Head
Ups and downs for actress Anne Hathaway. And only
downs for her ex boyfriend Raffaello Follieri...
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People
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‘Girls Gone Wild’ Creator Joe Francis Sent Back To Jail
Founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire Joe Francis was placed under arrest Monday...
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Pellicano Gets 15 Years Behind Bars
Anthony Pellicano, former celebrity detective, was sentenced
Monday to 15 years in prison in his...
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'Top Chef' Judge Sued By Former Employee
Celebrity chef and "Top Chef" judge Tom Colicchio was accused by a
former waitress of...
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Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway's ex, Gets Four And A Half Years In Jail
New York - Movie star Anne Hathaway's former boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, was sentenced to four...
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Wreckage of Adventurer Steve Fossett’s Plane Found
According to a statement by Madeira County Sheriff’s department, wreckage that was found on...
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JK Rowling Strikes Down Fan-Created Harry Potter Lexicon
Judge Robert P. Patterson Jr. of Federal District Court in Manhattan ruled that a fan-created...
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Hathaway Ex Will Not Get Away With Charges
The so-called Vati-con, also known as Anne Hathaway’s ex was facing up to nine years in prison,...
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Hollywood Private Eye Convicted In Wiretapping Case
Former private investigator, who once worked for celebrities, Anthony Pellicano, was convicted...
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Joel Osteen’s Wife On Trial For Flight Attendant Assault
On Wednesday, a jury was seated in a lawsuit against
Victoria Osteen, the spouse of the well-known...
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Judge Stops the Release of Verne Troyer Sex Tape
Friday, TMZ.com was ordered to take out the clips from
Verne Troyer’s sex tape. The federal judge...
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High Profile Lawyer Scruggs Sentenced to Five Years
The prominent class-action Mississippi lawyer, Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, was sentenced to...
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Boy Band Creator Pearlman Gets 25 Years In Jail
Music mogul Lou Pearlman, who created and promoted the Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, was sentenced...
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Wesley Snipes Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence
Wesley Snipes, the “Blade” movie star, was sentenced to
three years in prison Thursday for tax...
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Britney Spears’ Order Appeal Rejected
A challenge to a court ruling that gave Britney’s father
control over his daughter’s life has been...
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“Girls Gone Wild” Founder Freed
Joe Francis finished a court appearance in Panama City,
Florida, and he gained his freedom after...
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Boy Band Creator Pearlman Pleads Guilty To Fraud
Former boy-band promoter Lou Pearlman pleaded guilty
on Thursday to federal charges of conspiracy,...
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Boy Band Creator Pearlman Changes Plea Into Guilty
Former boy-band promoter Lou Pearlman will change his plea
from not guilty to guilty on Tuesday in...
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No Decision in Ex-Stripper vs. Boxer Case
Willowy ex-Scores stripper Milana Dravnel showed up at the Manhattan Federal Courthouse on Friday...
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"Survivor" Winner Loses Appeal, Remains in Jail
Richard Hatch, winner of the $1 million prize in the first “Survivor” competition on...
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Rapper Beanie Sigel Gets 1 Day in Prison and Many More in Halfway House
A federal judge sentenced Philadelphia rapper Beanie Sigel Wednesday to
serve one day in prison...
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"Sopranos" Creator Challenged by Former Judge
David Chase, creator of the Emmy-winning HBO mob drama “The Sopranos,” found himself in...
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Spiritual Jesuit Priest – a Serial Molester
The devil seems to be just when
one expects it less to find him. Recently a prominent Jesuit...
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Atlantic City’s Former Mayor Pleads Guilty
Former Atlantic City Mayor Bob Levy pleaded guilty Thursday
to have misled the U.S. Department of...
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T. I. Released On Bond After All
Rapper Clifford “T. I.” Harris, who has been in police custody since mid-October, was...
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Jailed Rapper T. I. Requests Pre-Trial Release
Clifford T. I. Harris, currently in custody for illegal possession of weapons, requested release on...
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‘Die Hard’ Director Sentenced To Prison
Director John McTiernan was ordered by a federal judge to serve four months behind bars and pay a...
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Bounty Hunter Duane Chapman Not Quite Free Yet
Although a Mexican trial judge has dismissed the charges against Duane Chapman aka Dog the Bounty...
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O.J.'s Book WILL Be Published
O.J. Simpson’s controversial book “If I Did It,” describing hypothetical details...
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O.J. Simpson’s Critique against Ronald Goldman’s Family
O.J. Simpson still has the guts
to criticize. After all these years when he has been in the middle...
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Business
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Extension sought to Microsoft antitrust supervision
San Francisco - Microsoft and US authorities on Thursday jointly proposed an 18-month extension of...
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Facebook Cashes In On Spam
According to a decision of the US District Court of North Carolina, Canadian citizen Adam Guerbuez...
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Facebook Wins Trial And Should Receive $873 Million
Justice was served in an exemplary manner in the case of
Facebook vs. Canadian spammer Adam...
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Microsoft Moves for Dismissal in ‘Vista Capable’ Lawsuit
On Thursday Microsoft asked a federal judge to dismiss
claims of plaintiffs in the class-action...
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HP Lashes Out at Microsoft in “Vista Capable” Lawsuit E-Mails
Friday, a judge in the “Vista Capable” lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation unsealed never before...
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IBM And Apple Keep Fighting Over Papermaster
The issues between Apple and IBM regarding Mr. Mark
Papermaster and his past and future activities...
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The White Space Battle May Come To An End
On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a measure that would make...
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Google Settles Copyright Lawsuits With Publishers And Authors
Google
Incorporated was reported to have been scheduled to pay $125 million in order
to settle...
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Discover settles lawsuit against Visa, MasterCard giants
New York - Discover Financial Services Tuesday settled an 18-billion-dollar antitrust lawsuit at...
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Citigroup goes to court over Wachovia takeover
Washington - In another surprise development in the takeover race for the fourth-largest US bank, a...
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Apple settles stock option lawsuit for 14 million dollars
San Francisco - Apple has agreed to a 14-million-dollar settlement of a shareholder lawsuit that...
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Penguin Wins Back Publishing Rights on J. Steinbeck’s Works
A Manhattan federal appeals court reversed a ruling which had previously granted John Steinbeck’s...
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Tiffany Vs eBay Fight Ends
On Monday, eBay came out of the legal battle against Tiffany on top, as a federal judge considered...
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Yahoo Files Lawsuit against Unknown Spammers
Yahoo filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of spammers on May 16. According to the company, the...
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Nintendo Ordered To Pay $21 Million to Anascape
A federal judge ruled that several controllers created by Nintendo
such as Gamecube controller,...
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AOL, Yahoo & RealNetworks Could Pay $100 M in Music Royalties
A New York federal court agreed on a formula according to which Time Warner Inc's AOL unit,...
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eBay Settles The Lawsuit With MercExchange
eBay, the biggest auction site, and MercExchange have settled
their patent dispute that ignited...
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Qualcomm Says Federal Ruling Will Have Short-Term Impact
Qualcomm Inc., the San Diego based wireless telecommunications research and development company,...
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Judge Grants MPAA with Unusual Victory against TorrentSpy
Yesterday, the entertainment
industry was honored with one of the most important, and unusual,...
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Ex-mogul Conrad M. Black Gets 6 Years for Fraud
On July 13,
2007, a Federal Court in Chicago declared press mogul Conrad Moffat Black, also
known...
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Google and Microsoft Go Head-to-Head Before Antitrust Subcommittee
Google and Microsoft conducted a fierce but amicable debate Thursday before U.S. senators from the...
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Judge: Vonage Willfully Infringed Sprint's Patents
Vonage was found to have willfully infringed Sprint's patents in providing its VoIP telephony...
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Whole Foods Merged with Wild Oats
Austin, Texas-based natural foods grocer Whole Foods Market on Tuesday said it closed the $565...
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Judge Reverses $1.5-Billion Ruling Against Microsoft
On Monday U.S. District Judge Rudi Brewster overturned a $1.52-
billion verdict against Microsoft...
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Former FBI Director To Join Wireless Company
Louis Freeh is a former United States’
FBI Director who seems to know where the money could come....
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Technology
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Teenage whizz-kid hacker gets a straight job
A New Zealand teenage whizz-kid who admitted developing software that infected a million...
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YouTube, Universal Music Reportedly Talking Business
YouTube may be taking a new approach when it comes to music videos, which this time would not imply...
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From Vista to XP and on to Windows 7
Neowin is reporting a date of April 10th for the release of Windows 7 RC, the next important...
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California Violent Game Law Denied
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday struck down a California law that...
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PsyStar Wins Legal Battle Against Computer Giant Apple
A federal court judge handed Mac clone maker PsyStar a victory Friday, in its effort to amend its...
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Court Allows Webcast For RIAA&Tenenbaum Lawsuit
Amazing as it seems, internet users worldwide will have the opportunity on Thursday to see a...
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Microsoft CEO To Testify In The Lawsuit Against Microsoft
A federal judge in Seattle has decided that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has to testify in a class...
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Microsoft Files Motion to Dismiss “Vista Capable” Accusations
Microsoft Corp. asked a federal judge to dismiss the claims
in the action-law suit filed against...
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Judge Dismisses Psystar’s Countersuit Claims As Ungrounded
A federal judge dismissed Psystar’s countersuit accusing Apple
of anticompetitive business...
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Apple Is Not A Monopolist, Federal Judge Says
A federal judge dismissed on Tuesday charges from a small computer maker, Psystar, that accused...
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The White Space Battle May Come to An End
On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on a measure that would make...
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Judge Strikes Down RIAA Victory, Orders Retrial of Jammie Thomas Case
Judge Michael J. Davis overturned a landmark federal jury decision against single mom Jammie...
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Judge Drops Financial Claims Against Jammie Thomas
On Wednesday, federal judge Michael Davis declared his previous decision on the Jammie Thomas case...
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Mukasey Seeks Immunity Protection Against Surveillance Allegations
Following the Electronic Frontier Foundation's move to file a lawsuit against the National Security...
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RIAA to Win P2P Case As Defendant Destroys Evidence
An Arizona federal judge ruled that that the music infringer accused by the Recording Industry...
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MIT Students Found Not Guilty
The three students from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology taken to court by the...
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The MIT Students Were Found Innocent
Three Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students
were allowed to talk freely about the...
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MIT Students Raise New Security Concerns
The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority sent
out an e-mail to all of its employees, requesting...
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EFF to Fight Order Forcing Students to Cancel Subway Hacking Presentation
Three college students were ordered by a federal judge to
call off a presentation at a computer...
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EFF Fights For MIT Students' Rights To Speak Freely About Subway Hacks
A federal court judge ordered three MIT students to cancel their presentation on the...
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EBay May Be Sued By SIIA, Oregon Man In Jail For 4 Years
The Software & Information Industry Association threatens to sue eBay, frustrated by the lack...
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Justice Is Served: AOL Spammer Gets 30 Months Behind Bars
Another spammer was sentenced to some “quality time” in
prison, this time for 30 months, after...
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Viacom Is Not The Bad Guy Anymore: Agrees To Anonymization
When it comes to privacy issues, even the most ardent rivals
are able to reach a settlement, as we...
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Viacom and Google Reach Anonymization Agreement for YouTube Logs
Google and Viacom reached an agreement of the handing over of the YouTube logs. The two companies...
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Viacom Tramples Privacy of YouTube Users with Court Help
The ruling which demands Google to hand over the YouTube access logs, which are to show the actual...
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Viacom Gets The Logs, Google Gets To Keep The Source Code
Viacom got a partial victory in the $1 billion lawsuit
against Google Inc. and its YouTube...
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Tech Companies Rally Against Patent Trolls
Several tech power players have joined forces against the so-called patent trolls, entities which...
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Woman Involved in MySpace Suicide Pleads Not Guilty
Lori Drew, 49, who
was indicted in the MySpace hoax that led to the suicide of a 13
years-old...
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HP Private Investigators Fined $600,000 For Illicit Gains
Private investigators in the
infamous HP spying case, dating back to 2005, have been fined...
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TorrentSpy Must Pay Big For Piracy Accusations
A federal judge decided that TorrentSpy Company must pay the
Motion Picture Association of America...
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World
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David Kernell Not Indicted By Federal Jury For Palin E-Mail Hack
A federal grand jury convened today in Chattanooga,
Tennessee to investigate State Rep....
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NSA, Bush, Cheney Sued by EFF over Illegal Surveillance
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed a lawsuit on
Thursday against the National Security...
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Virginia Anti-Spam Law Declared Invalid
Following the much-publicized case and subsequent release of
“Spam King” Jeremy Jaynes by the...
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Hurricane Ike Threatens Texas’ Gulf Coast
Hurricane Ike threatens millions of people with strong wind, rain and a massive wave of water up to...
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Sexual-Abuse Scandal Rocks the US District Court. Federal Judge Indicted
After the sexual abuse scandal related to the
events at the religious compound of the...
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The Anthrax Case Is Still Unsolved
Due to the fact that the FBI didn’t pursue the right suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, they...
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Federal Receiver Demands $8 Billion For California Medical Facilities
J. Clark Kelso, the federal receiver responsible of bringing California’s prison health system in...
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Judge Declines Gun Group’s Request To Carry Weapons In Airport
A U.S. judge upheld a gun ban at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, claiming he...
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Atlanta: Judge Rules Against Guns in Airport
Monday, a federal judge decided that people would not be
allowed to carry guns in Atlanta's...
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FBI Is Allowed To Examine The Computers Used By Ivins
A judge authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to search two public library computers that...
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Former Judge Gets Sentenced for Child Pornography
Thursday, a former Sevier County
judge was sentenced to almost 4 years in prison for keeping child...
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Prosecutor Confirms That Brooke Bennett’s Death Was Homicide
According to Vermont’s
chief medical examiner, Brooke Bennett was killed. He ruled her death...
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Software Engineer Gets 2 Years in Jail for Espionage
A software engineer who had worked in the Silicon Valley will spend the next two years in prison....
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MySpace Suicide Case in Federal Court
A Missouri woman indicted in a MySpace hoax which led to a 13-year-old girl's suicide is scheduled...
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Man Paralyzed by Officer’s Bullet Owes $100
A police officer shot a man 20 years ago, leaving him
paralyzed. After several trials, the man...
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Georgia Gun Dealer Withdraws From Trial, Bloomberg Pleased
A Georgia gun dealer who has been accused by New York City of illegally selling handguns withdrew...
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Virginia Executes First Execution Since 2006
The state of Virginia the carried out its first execution since November 9, 2006 on Tuesday when it...
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Judges Begin Hearings with Parents from Polygamist Tx. Ranch
Federal judges will begin hearings today in the case of the parents of the children taken under...
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Pellicano Found Guilty in Wiretapping Case
Anthony Pellicano, the Hollywood private investigator, was convicted by a Los Angeles court for his...
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Decision On Polar Bears Expected Today
The US Interior Department will announce today if the polar
bear is to be listed as threatened and...
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Iraqi Sues U.S. Military Contractors CACI, L3 for Torture
An Iraqi man claims he was tortured during the 10 months of his detention at the Abu Ghraib prison....
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Study Supporting Californian Delta Pumping Rejected
A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a study backing
increased water exports from Northern...
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Hells Angel Gets Life Sentence for 1993 Murder
A Hells Angel received a mandatory life sentence for bombing
the car of Lee Carter, Jr., a federal...
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Woman Who Killed Mother-to-Be Sentenced to Death
A woman who killed a mother-to-be and kidnapped her baby after cutting him from his mother’s womb...
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Chinese-born Engineer Gets 24 Years in Prison in Spy Case
Chi Mak, a Chinese-born engineer living in the United
States, was sentenced Monday to 24 years and...
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Detroit’s Mayor Charged with 8 Felonies over Affair
Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, the youngest mayor of a big US city, was charged along with an...
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Lawyers for Former USA Today Reporter Want to Postpone Fines
A federal judge in Washington
is ordering a journalist to pay up to $5,000 a day if she continues...
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Teen’s Web Speech Case Reaches Appeals Court
A teenage girl who used bad language in an Internet blog
regarding the school officials was...
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'Predator' Lawsuit Approved To Go On Trial
A US
federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the lawsuit which claims that NBC is
responsible for the...
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Dolphin Possibly Killed By Navy Sonar
Authorities announced that a dolphin died on the beach of
the Navy's San Nicolas Island
late...
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