The Courts Stories for 2012

Ban on Certain Samsung Products Appears Likely ITC Ruling 90
Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law 81
Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters 177
Samsung Retaliates Against Ericsson With Patent Complaint 43
Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art 289
Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling 149
Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant 107
Judge Refuses Apple Request For Samsung Ban, But Denies New Trial, Too 156
Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members 215
California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy 100
iPhone Infringes On Sony, Nokia Patents, Says Federal Jury 166
Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS 146
Guatemala Judge Orders McAfee Released 139
Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid 247
Facebook Sued Over App Center Data Sharing In Germany 55
Virginia Woman Is Sued For $750,000 After Writing Scathing Yelp Review 424
Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court 165
HP Sues Over LCD Price Fixing 56
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films 196
Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit 85
Ericsson Seeks US Import Ban On Samsung Products 102
Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence 193
Apple Claims Ignorance of Jury Foreman's Previous Tangle With Samsung 186
7 Jailed In 'Kidney For iPad' Case In China 100
Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail 369
BP and Three Executives Facing Criminal Charges Over Oil Spill 238
Google Found Guilty of Libel For Search Results In Australia 223
Federal Officials Take Down 132 Websites In "Cyber Monday" Crackdown 153
Apple Claims New Infringement After Being Ordered To Tell Samsung HTC Secrets 287
Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case 379
FBI Asked Megaupload To Preserve Pirated Files, Then Used Them Against Dotcom 241
Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge 388
Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? 686
Judge Demands Email and Facebook Passwords From Women In Sexual Harassment Case 218
Tolkien Estate Sues Over Lord of the Rings Slot Machines 211
Jail Looms For Man Who Revealed AT&T Leaked iPad User E-Mails 124
Parents Not Liable For Their Son's Illegal Music Sharing, Says German Court 207
Amazon Payment Adds "No Class Action" Language To Terms of Service 147
Samsung Accuses Foreman Hogan of Misrepresentation 208
In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music 339
Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute 179
Blizzard Sued Over Battle.net Authentication 217
Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers 510
UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance 217
Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info 98
Fox's Attempt To Block Ad-skipping TV Recorder Autohop Fails 142
Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site 189
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law 305
Ask Slashdot: How To Become Informed In Judicial Elections? 153
Apple Suit Against Motorola Over FRAND Licensing Rates Dismissed 249
Apple Hides Samsung Apology So It Can't Be Seen Without Scrolling 743
JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge 477
Apple Loses Trademark Claim Against iFone in Mexico 192
$1,500,000 Fine For Sharing 10 Movies On BitTorrent 339
FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" 289
UK Court of Appeal Reprimands Apple Over Mandated Samsung Statement 241
Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance 420
Supreme Court Hearing Case On Drug-Sniffing Dog "Fishing Expeditions" 451
Supreme Court To Hear First Sale Doctrine Case 242
Apple Posts Non-Apology To Samsung 413
What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like 167
Michael E. Mann Sues For Defamation Over Comparison To Jerry Sandusky 371
US Patent Office Invalidates Apple's "Rubber Banding" Patent 213
Scientists Who Failed to Warn of Quake Found Guilty of Manslaughter 459
How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy 123
Righthaven Ordered To Turn Over Hard Drives To Creditors 51
Italian Supreme Court Accepts Mobile Phone-Tumor Link 190
Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets 848
The Long Reach of US Extradition 242
Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update 294
In UK, Apple Must Run Ad Apologizing to Samsung 190
Amazon Kindle eBook Users To Get Refunds After Settlement 90
Lulzsec Member Raynaldo Rivera Pleads Guilty To Sony Pictures Breach 81
S. Carolina Supreme Court: Leaving Email In the Cloud Isn't Electronic Storage 112
EFF To Ask Judge To Rule That Universal Abused the DMCA 139
Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Mapping Patents 57
Judge Orders Piracy Trial To Test IP Address Evidence 321
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Or Not You Own What You Own 543
Unredacted Documents In Apple/Samsung Case, No Evidence of 'Copy' Instruction 178
Supreme Court To Decide If Monsanto GMO Patents Are Valid 308
Assange Seeks To Sue Prime Minister Gillard For Defamation 244
After 7 Years In Court, Google Settles With Publishers On Book Scanning 127
Unredacted Filings Reveal Claims of Juror Misconduct in Apple vs Samsung Trial 282
Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5 196
Scientists Want To Keep Their Research Work Out of Court 288
Supreme Court Won't Hear Body-Scanner Appeal 170
Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties 286
US Court Says Motorola Can't Enforce Microsoft Injunction In Germany 175
WhatsApp Threatens Developers of PC Gateway With Legal Action 27
Appeals Court Caves To TSA Over Nude Body Scanners 169
Nabi Tablet-Maker, Fuhu Inc., Suing Toys R Us 38
Intellectual Ventures Settles Lawsuits With Asian Memory Companies 30
Will Apple Vs Samsung Verdict Be Overturned? 300
Apple Wants Another $707 Million From Samsung 316
Google Could Face Heavy Antitrust Fines In the EU 292
Federal Judge Says No Right To Secret Ballot, OKs Barcoded Ballots 584
Chemist Jailed In Russia For Giving Expert Opinion In Court 232
Can a Court Order You To Delete a Facebook Account? 761
Wi-Fi Illness Claim Doesn't Impress New Mexico Court 217
Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails 345
Zynga Sues EA For 'Anti-competitive' Practices 116
Red Hat Fights Patent Troll With GPL 98
Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case 73
Motorola Ordered To Recall Android Phones and Tablets In Germany 190
Dutch Court Rules Hyperlinks Can Constitute Infringement 203
Wozniak On the Samsung Patent Verdict 328
French Court Levies First Fine Under 3-Strikes Piracy Law 229
Eolas Sues Again: This Time, Facebook, Disney and Wal-Mart 97
DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not 228
8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case 285
Samsung Expected To Sue Apple Over iPhone 5 LTE Networking 283
Arizona Botnet Controller Draws 30-Month Federal Sentence 76
Judge Rules Sniffing Open Wi-Fi Networks Is Not Wiretapping 308
Samsung: Android's Multitouch Not As Good As Apple's 176
Internet Brands Sues People For Forking Under CC BY-SA 168
Judge Approves Settlement In eBook Price-Fixing Case 242
Oracle To Pay Google $1 Million For Lawyer Fees In Failed Patent Case 97
Apple Adds Samsung Galaxy SIII To Its Ban List 553
Appeals Court: You Can Infringe a Patent Even If You Didn't Do All the Steps 126
Twitter Jokes: Free Speech On Trial 172
Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung 385
US DOJ Drops Charges Against Two Seized Websites 152
Misunderstanding of Prior Art May Have Led to Apple-Samsung Verdict 503
In Wake of Samsung Verdict, HTC Does Not Intend To Settle 286
Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System 387
Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ 626
Apple Seeks To Block 8 Samsung Products After Court Win 396
Apple v. Samsung Jurors Speak, Skipped Prior Art For "Bogging Us Down" 506
Will Your Books and Music Die With You? 248
Victory For Apple In "Patent Trial of the Century," To the Tune of $1 Billion 1184
Aussie Tax Office Wants Phone Tapping, Data Retention 46
Apple and Samsung Both Get South Korea Bans 216
Should Developers Be Sued For Security Holes? 550
New Judge Assigned To Tenenbaum Case Upholds $675k Verdict 312
New eBay EULA Prohibits Class Action Lawsuits 234
Jury In Apple v. Samsung Case May Have to Agree on 700 Points 111
CowboyNeal Looks Back at the SCO-Linux Trials 157
Judge Rejects Settlement In Facebook Sponsored Stories Case 47
Apple Loses Bid To Exclude Evidence In Samsung Patent Trial 227
Google Seeks US Ban On iPhones, iPads, Macs 404
Kasparov Arrested By Russian Police 374
Google, Oracle Deny Direct Payments To Media 41
US Court Sides With Gene Patents 255
Judge Suggests Apple Is "Smoking Crack" With Witness List In Samsung Case 318
Ecuador Grants Asylum To Julian Assange 923
Police Don't Need a Warrant To Track Your Disposable Cellphone 312
Samsung: Apple Stole the iPad's Design From Univ of Missouri Professor 362
German Court: ISPs Must Hand Over File Sharer Info 136
Intellectual Ventures Tied To 1,300 Shell Companies 140
Why Apple Is Suing Every Android Manufacturer In Sight 738
Judge Overturns Patent Suit, Rules RIM Did Not Infringe 13
Training Cops To Use Social Media Information 51
Former Goldman Sachs Programmer Arrested and Charged Again For Code Theft 176
Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened 285
Samsung's Comparison of Galaxy S To iPhone 383
SCO Group Files For Chapter 7 190
Paid Media Must Be Disclosed In Oracle v. Google 165
Apple Is Giving Away Its Secrets By Litigating 149
Embedding of Copyright Infringing Video Not (Necessarily) a Crime 45
Apple Comes Clean, Admits To Doing Market Research 221
SAP Agrees To Pay Oracle $306 Million In Corporate Theft Case 29
EA Sues Zynga For Copying Sims Game 197
Yahoo Sued For Password Breach 93
Patent and Copyright Wars Gone Wild 197
Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes 404
Judge Rules Oracle Must Continue Porting Software To Itanium 109
Samsung Admonished For Releasing Rejected Evidence 354
How Apple v. Samsung Was Explained To the Jury 330
Microsoft, IBM Want to Seal Patents Agreements With Samsung 126
The Surprises In the Latest Apple V. Samsung Court Documents 257
US Gov't Says They Can Still Freeze Megaupload Assets If the Case Is Dismissed 530
Google Warned Samsung Galaxy Tab Was "Too Similar" 251
"Bomb Threat" Tweet Conviction Overturned By UK Appeals Court 103
Spanish Superjudge To Represent Assange 196
Apple Wins EU Ban of Smaller Samsung Tablet, Demands $2.5 Billion In Damages 377
Aussie Judge Declares Apple-Samsung Patent Battles "Ridiculous" 69
Judge: Cops Can Impersonate Owner Of Seized Cell Phones 213
Man Who Protested TSA By Stripping Is Acquitted By Judge 246
EPIC Files Motion About Ignored Body Scanner Ruling 183
Apple Must Publicly Post That Samsung Did Not Copy iPad 278
Judge In Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Steps Down 132
Canadian Supreme Court Entrenches Tech Neutrality In Copyright Law 54
Microsoft Wins WordPerfect Antitrust Battle With Novell 124
US "the Enemy" Says Dotcom Judge 469
Witness In Secret WikiLeaks Grand Jury Hearing Posts Transcript of Questioning 184
How the Inventors of Dragon Speech Recognition Technology Lost Everything 606
RIM Facing $147.2 Million Patent Verdict 77
Judge Rules iDevice Speaker Docks Don't Infringe On Bose Patent 67
Appeals Court Upholds Sanction Against BitTorrent Download Attorney 90
Why There Are Too Many Patents In America 189
Canada's Supreme Court Strikes Down Copyright Fees On Music, Video 58
Icelandic Court Rules: Wikileaks Will Get Contributed Credit Card Money 168
Aereo Wins Preliminary Injunction Hearing 65
DHS Still Stonewalling On Body Scanning Ruling One Year Later 242
No, You Can't Claim 'Negligence' In a Copyright Case 108
Hans Reiser Sued By Own Kids For $15 Million 265
Apple Forces Google To Degrade Android Features 498
US Appeals Court Says Bank Liable For Losses From Poor Online Security 94
After Android Trial, Google Demands $4M From Oracle 119
In UK, HTC Defeats Apple's "Obvious" Slide Unlock Patent 165
Charles Carreon Drops Case Against the Oatmeal 107
Used Software Can Be Sold, Says EU Court of Justice 385
Apple To Pay $60 Million Over iPad Trademark Dispute 120
Samsung Appeals Apple's Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus 217
Is Being In the Same BitTorrent "Swarm" Equal To "Interacting"? 166
Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional 2416
Dotcom Search Warrants Ruled Illegal 316
HP Asks Judge To Enforce Itanium Contract Vs. Oracle 124
Minnesota Supreme Court Rejects DUI Challenges Based On Buggy Software 391
Pirate Bay Founder Fined For 'Continued Involvement' 237
U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab 498
Are Patent Wars Worth the Price Tag? 128
Posner Dismisses Apple/Motorola Case, With Prejudice 146
Judge Suggests Apple, Motorola Should Play Nice 140
Free Speech For Computers? 228
US District Court: Game Elements In Tetris Clone Infringe Tetris Co.'s Copyright 138
FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" 390
Facebook Settles 'Sponsored Stories' Suit For $10M To Charity 34
Assange Loses Latest Round In Extradition Fight 296
Listen to the RIAA's Appeal In Jammie Thomas Case 225
Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas 224
US Gov't Wants Megaupload Users To Pay For Their Data 203
FunnyJunk v. the Oatmeal: Copyright Infringement Complaints As Defamation 286
Patent Troll Sues Google, AOL Over Search 'Snippets' and Ad Serving Tech 83
In Australia, Apple Fined $2.5 Million For '4G' Advertising Claims 154
Judge Posner To Apple & Motorola: Go Home 63
Samsung Sues Aussie Patent Office In Apple Suit, Apple Sues Back 160
More Court Trouble For Oracle: Now HP Is Suing Them 116
US Courts Approve 30,000 Secret Surveillance Orders Each Year 85
A 'Small Claims Court' For the Internet 116
Is Australia's CSIRO a Patent Troll? 175
Judge Rules API's Can Not Be Copyrighted 365
Australia Drops Second Google Investigation 63
Supreme Court Rules Julian Assange May Be Extradited 289
US Ordered To Hand Over Megaupload Documents 242
Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts 174
Audio Surveillance, Intended to Detect Gunshots, Can Pick Up Much More 215
Apple Fires Back At DoJ Over eBook Price Fixing 311
Texter Not Responsible For Textee's Car Accident, Rules Judge 200
Fox Sues Dish Over "Auto Hop" Ad-Skipping Feature 578
Supreme Court Orders Do-Over On Key Software Patents 167
Apple and Samsung Ordered Talks Fail - Trial Date Set 165
Kim Dotcom Demands Access To Seized Property To Defend Himself 236
No Patent Infringement Found In Oracle vs. Google 234
Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO 445
SAP VP Arrested In False Barcode Scheme 535
Judge Orders Verizon Subscriber Identities Sealed 126
Rutger's Student Dharun Ravi Sentenced To 30-Day Jail Time 683
Facebook Privacy Suit Seeks $15 Billion 92

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