The Courts Stories for 2009

MS Issues Word Patch To Comply With Court Order 179
Nokia Claims Patent Violations in Most Apple Products 419
Groklaw Putting Comes v. Microsoft Docs Online 159
Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names 301
Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit 176
A New Libel Defense In Canada; For Blogs Too 146
Microsoft Ordered To Pay $290M, Stop Selling Word 272
DirecTV Sued By Washington State 181
Microsoft Sued Over Bing Trademark 191
Vimeo Sued For Audio Infringement 85
Psystar Not Closing Up Shop 439
Google Found Guilty of French Copyright Infringement 254
Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect 527
US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices 230
Judge Orders Permanent Injunction Against Psystar 242
22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found 326
Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits 316
Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant 161
The Trial of Terry Childs Begins 502
Supreme Court Takes Texting Privacy Case 184
Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates 204
Google and Microsoft Sued By Mini Music Label 105
$860 Million In Fines Handed Out For LCD Price-Fixing 151
Judges Can't "Friend" Lawyers in Florida 138
Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases 145
FTC, Google Go After Scammers 64
Facebook Axes "Beacon," Donates $9.5M To Settle Suit 71
DVD-by-Mail Services Cleared In Patent Troll Case 73
CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit 280
eBay vs. Craigslist Courtroom Fisticuffs Start Today 129
Ambassador Claims ACTA Secrecy Necessary 407
Canada Supreme Court Broadens Internet "Luring" Offense 596
Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation 374
"Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison 1127
Woman Filming Sister's Birthday Party Gets Charged With Felony Movie Piracy 705
DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court 267
UK Judge Orders Wikipedia To Reveal User's Identity 260
Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law 466
Scientology Charged With Slavery, Human Trafficking 802
SarBox Lawsuit Could Rewrite IT Compliance Rules 124
Spammer Lance Atkinson Fined $16 Million 100
Nintendo Upset Over Nokia Game Emulation Video 189
UK Pub Reportedly Fined For Illegal Wi-Fi Download 102
In AU, Film Studios Issue Ultimatum To ISPs 227
30,000 UK ISP Users Face Threat Letters For Suspected Illegal File Sharing 218
Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US 571
Apple Asks Judge To Shutter Psystar's Clone Unit 346
Italian Prosecutors Seek Prison Sentences For Google Execs 197
Brain Scans Used In Murder Sentencing 328
Inside England and Wales' DNA Regime 141
Prison Terms For Spammer Ralsky, Scientology DoS Attacker 328
iPhone Owners Demand To See Apple Source Code 298
Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated 453
Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage 486
AT&T Loses First Legal Battle Against Verizon 214
Chinese Court Rules Microsoft Violated IP Rights 237
Psystar Crushed In Court 640
Google Files a Revised Books Settlement Proposal 51
TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped 285
German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names 859
BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC 216
FreeCreditReport.com Wins 1,017 Domains By UDRP 184
Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested 280
MPAA Shuts Down Town's Municipal WiFi Over 1 Download 323
Judge Rules Web Commenter Will Be Unmasked To Mom 404
$9 Million ATM Hacking Ring Indicted 86
Chicago Court Throwing Out LIDAR Speeding Tickets 245
SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day 187
Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain 1172
US Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method Patents 160
Prosecutors Seek Journalism Students’ Grades After They Help Free Innocent 4
Malware Can Download Child Porn To Your Computer 586
Lawsuit Claims Top iPhone Games Stole User Data 149
WIPO Committee Presentations Show Nuanced View of Copyright 84
Visually Impaired Gamer Sues Sony 550
NH Supreme Court Hears Case On Protections For Anonymous Sources Online 47
Radar Beats GPS In Court — Or Does It? 369
Norwegian Court Rules ISP Doesn't Have To Block The Pirate Bay 154
EMI Sues Beatles Usurper Off the Net 358
EU Telecom Deal Finished — No Three Strikes 109
N.Y. AG Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Intel 169
AT&T Sues Verizon Over "Map For That" Ads 249
Feds Bust Cable Modem Hacker 658
An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment 316
Apple Says Booting OS X Makes an Unauthorized Copy 865
Facebook Awarded $711 Million In Anti-Spam Case 179
Metadata In Arizona Public Records Can't Be Withheld 103
New Threats Against Pirate Bay Owners 335
Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment 451
Telco Sues City For Plan To Roll Out Own Broadband 681
French Branch of Scientology Is Convicted of Fraud 622
Microsoft Freeloading In Washington State Courts 395
Music Rights Holders Sue YouTube Again 145
Sparc Sends SparkFun Electronics C&D Letter 219
Data Entry Errors Resulted In Improper Sentences 138
Judge Rejects Sheriff's Suit Against Craigslist 121
Court Orders the Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents 455
Nokia Sues Apple For Patent Infringement In iPhone 367
Legal War For WA State Sunshine Law 1364
Amiga and Hyperion Settle Ownership of AmigaOS 227
D&D Handbook Distribution Lawsuit Settled For $125,000 124
Arrested IBM Exec Goes MIA On the Web 185
IBM, Intel Execs Arrested Over Insider Trading 198
Texas Teen Arrested Under New Online Harassment Law 494
Toyota Claims Woman "Opted In" To Faux Email Stalking 667
In the UK, a Few Tweets Restore Freedom of Speech 216
Judge Won't Punish Lawyer For Anti-RIAA Blogging 160
Facebook User Arrested For a Poke 394
Japanese Ruling Against Winny Dev Overturned On Appeal 82
Photoshop Disaster Draws DMCA Notice For Boing Boing 391
IBM Faces DOJ Antitrust Inquiry On Mainframes 190
Sony Sued Over Bricked PS3s 438
CBS Interactive Sued For Distributing Green Dam 133
AU Legal Group Says ISP Allowed 100K Illegal Downloads 191
Court Rules For Software Ownership Over Licensing 177
FBI Investigates Liberator of Court Records 445
Red Hat Files Amicus Brief In Bilski Patent Case 219
Corporations Now Have a Right To "Personal Privacy" 371
UK Court Order Served Over Twitter, To Anonymous User Posing As Another 205
Jack Thompson Sues Facebook For $40M 421
Massachusetts Police Can't Place GPS On Autos Without Warrant 194
$338M Patent Ruling Against Microsoft Overturned 238
Professor Wins $240K In Fair Use Dispute 150
Judge Rules Games Are "Expressive Works" 157
Bank Goofs, and Judge Orders Gmail Account Nuked 594
Google Serves a Cease-and-Desist On Android Modder 336
GPL Wins In French Court Case 266
Delay, Renegotiation Sought For Google Books Settlement 83
Court To Scammer, "Give Up Your House Or Go To Jail" 152
US Wants UK Hacker To Pay To Fix Holes He Exposed 403
Malaysia Seeking to Copyright Food? 330
DoJ Recommends NY Court Reject Google Book Deal 124
Pirate Bay Buyer Sued For Bankruptcy 102
Brazilian Court Bans P2P Software 216
Skype Founders File Copyright Suit Against eBay 107
Microsoft Files Suits Against "Malvertisers" 205
Spyware Prank Exposes Hospital Medical Records 319
Canadian Court of Appeals Decides Website Linking Isn't Libelous 75
Lawyer Demands Jury Stops Googling 517
Professor Posts "Illegal Copy" of Guide To Oregon Public Record Laws 318
Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter 164
Bethesda Sues Interplay Over Fallout License, MMO Plans 43
$358 Million Patent Judgment Against Microsoft Overturned 76
Terrorists Convicted With Help of NSA E-mail Intercepts 153
Copyright Troubles For Sony 276
Accused Killer Asks For Online Media Users' IDs 149
Google Japan To Help Victims of Street View Abuse 54
Court Allows Microsoft To Sell Word During Appeal 106
Take-Two Faces $20 Million Settlement For "Hot Coffee" Scandal 124
Canadian Hate-Speech Law Violates Charter of Rights 651
IBM's Supreme Court Brief Says That Patents Drive Free Software 284
Web Hosts Hit With $32 Million Judgment For Content 202
Judge Won't Lower $5M Bail For Jailed SF IT Admin 429
Tour Companies Battle Over Trademarked Duck Noises 251
Librarians Express Concern Over Google Books 144
Lori Drew Cyberbullying Case Dismissed 408
Dell Says Re-Imaging HDs a Burden If Word Banned 376
Utah Law Punishes Texters As Much As Drunks In Driving Fatalities 620
Publisher Whining Prompts Italian Investigation of Google 91
FTC Rules Outlawing Robocalls Go Into Effect Next Week 277
Database Records and "In Plain Sight" Searches 154
ACLU Sues For Records On Border Laptop Searches 337
Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image 324
Global Warming To Be Put On Trial? 1100
Pirate Bay Archive Goes Online 94
Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision 330
Anti-Spam Lawyer Loses Appeal, and His Possessions 237
Goldman Sachs Code Theft Not Quite So Cut and Dried 306
Model Drops Lawsuit After Outing Anonymous Blogger 476
Real-Time Keyloggers 205
Mexico Decriminalizes Small-Scale Drug Possession 640
RIAA Loses Case Against Launch Media 86
Sweden Launches Criminal Probe of Pirate Bay Sale 48
Federal Court Grants Microsoft Expedited Appeal 88
Writing Style Fingerprint Tool Easily Fooled 96
Judge Rules To Reveal Anonymous Blogger's Identity Over Insults 271
Microsoft Files "Emergency Motion" To Ship Word 221
Three Indicted In Huge Identity/Data Breach 101
Microsoft Trial Misconduct Cost $40 Million 231
BetOnSports Founder Pleads Guilty To Racketeering 223
Arizona Judge Tells Sheriff "Reveal Password Or Face Contempt" 624
DoJ Defends $1.92 Million RIAA Verdict 386
Danish FreeBSD Dev. Sues Lenovo Over "Microsoft Tax" 318
Firefox Plugin Liberates Paywalled Court Records 145
Making the Case That Virtual Property Is a Bad Idea 184
Man Jailed After Using LimeWire For ID Theft 241
Judge Rules Against RealDVD 407
US Court Tells Microsoft To Stop Selling Word 403
Supreme Court Review of Bilski Heats Up 121
AT&T Makes Its Terms of Service Even Worse, To Discourage Lawsuits 412
The Perseverance of a Trademark Troll 63
Medical Papers By Ghostwriters Pushed Hormone Therapy 289
Examining Software Liability In the Open Source Community 241
Swiss Open Source Decision Going Microsoft's Way 105
Chapter 11 Trustee Appointed For SCO 89
Twitter Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit 236
FBI Nabs Chicago Transit Authority Radio Hacker 177
Student Sues University Because She's Unemployable 1251
First Ever Criminal Arrest For Domain Name Theft 294
Apple Tries To Gag Owner of Exploding iPod 475
Microsoft Drops Windows 7 E Editions 423
Tenenbaum Lawyers Now Passing the Hat 388
RIAA Awarded $675,000 In Tenenbaum Trial 492
Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions 646
British Hacker Loses Review of Asperger's Defense 278
11-Word Extracts May Infringe Copyright In Europe 132
The Pirate Bay Ordered To Block Dutch Users 255
Verizon Asks Court To Affirm 'Most Reliable' Claim 111
The Pirate Bay Is Being Sued Again 224
Blackboard Patent Invalidated By Appellate Court 142
Fair Use Defense Dismissed In SONY V. Tenenbaum 517
Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies 281
California Continues To Push For Violent Game Legislation 167
Canadian Gov't Asks Public About New Copyright Law 77
Lawyer Jailed For Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years 408
P.I.I. In the Sky 222
Court Appoints Pro Bono Counsel For RIAA Defendant 123
Belgium Tries to Fine Yahoo for Protecting US User Privacy 267
Music Industry Wants a Cut of Pirate Bay Sale 214
New Developments In NPG/Wikipedia Lawsuit Threat 345
Australian Website Bans ... Australians 247
Three Arrested For Conspiring To Violate the DMCA 335
RIAA Loses Bid To Keep Revenues Secret 229
Lawyer Offers $1M For Proof His Client Could Have Done It; Oops 362
Internet Astroturfer Fined $300,000 245
Launch of First International FOSS Law Review 30
Judge May Take "Fair Use" Away From Jury 342
Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself 445
Obama Photog Says "You're Both Wrong" To AP & Fairey 222
Rosetta Stone Sues Google For Trademark Violation 213
French "3 Strikes" Law Returns, In Slightly Altered Form 159
British Men Jailed For Online Hate Crimes 778
UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User 526
RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret 130
Downloading Copyrighted Material Legal In Spain 323
Judge Invalidates Software Patent, Citing Bilski 252
Judge Rules IP Addresses Not "Personally Identifiable" 436
Cellphones Increasingly Used As Evidence In Court 232
Prof. Nesson Ordered To Show Cause 267
Jammie Thomas Moves To Strike RIAA $1.92M Verdict 392
RIAA Seeks Web Removal of Courtroom Audio 138
Goldman Sachs Trading Source Code In the Wild? 324
Jammie Thomas To Appeal $1.9 Million RIAA Verdict 204
Professor Gets 4 Years in Prison for Sharing Drone Plans With Students 354
US Couple Gets Prison Time For Internet Obscenity 574
DOJ Confirms Google Antitrust Investigation 186
Judge Tentatively Dismisses Case Against Lori Drew 420
Safe Harbor Spells Win For Kaspersky In Malware Case Against Zango 93
RIAA Victory Over Usenet.com In Copyright Case 289
High Court Allows Remote-Storage DVR System 112

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