The Courts Stories for 2018

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Prosecutors Request Prison Time For Executives 138
JD.com's Billionaire CEO Will Not Be Charged With Sexual Assault 62
ACLU To Feds: Your 'Hacking Presents a Unique Threat To Individual Privacy' 67
Australian Court Orders ISPs To Block 181 'Pirate' Domains, Including Subtitle Sites 95
Intel Attacks Qualcomm for Allegedly Stifling Competition 40
Apple Tweaks iOS Animation In China In Attempt To Avoid Sales Ban 47
DC Attorney General Sues Facebook Over Alleged Privacy Violations From Cambridge Analytica Scandal 70
Swedish ISP Bahnhof Fights Sci-Hub Blocking Order 53
Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges 168
Qualcomm Asks China To Ban the iPhone XS and XR 53
Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage 90
President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip 351
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition 234
12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees 83
Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint 121
Apple Hit With Class Action Suit Over Lack of Dust Filters In Macbook, iMac 208
Intel Sues Ex-Engineer For Trying To Steal 3D XPoint Technology On His Way To Micron 33
Lenovo Finally Pays $7.3 M Fine Over Invasive 2014 'Superfish' Adware Pre-Installations 79
Samsung's Foldable Screen Tech Has Been Stolen, Sold To China 75
Facebook Discussed Using People's Data As a Bargaining Chip, Emails and Court Filings Suggest 30
Companies 'Can Sack Workers For Refusing To Use Fingerprint Scanners' 145
DOJ Made Secret Arguments To Break Crypto, Now ACLU Wants To Make Them Public 105
Justice Department Indicts Two Iranians Over SamSam Ransomware Attacks 47
US Top Court Leans Toward Allowing Apple App Store Antitrust Suit 163
Washington DC Made GitHub Its Official Digital Source For Laws 66
UK Parliament Seizes Cache of Facebook Internal Papers 225
Court Again Rules That Cable Giants Can't Weaponize the First Amendment 152
Russia Wants DNC Hack Lawsuit Thrown Out, Citing International Conventions 267
Justice Department Is Preparing To Prosecute WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange 452
Comcast Forced To Refund $700,000 To Customers Over Misleading Fees 87
Food Taste 'Not Protected By Copyright,' EU Court Rules 107
Man Pleads Guilty To Swatting Attack That Led To Death of Kansas Man 283
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Should Comcast Be Investigated For Antitrust Violations? 103
The Real Reason Palmer Luckey Was Fired From Facebook 142
Drive-By Shooting Suspect Remotely Wipes iPhone X, Catches Extra Charges 218
Facebook Follows Google To End Mandatory Arbitration For Sexual-Harassment Claims 72
EU Court Rules Hungary's State Monopoly Over Mobile Payments Is Illegal 120
Apple Not in Settlement Talks 'at Any Level' With Qualcomm, Report Says 31
Edward Snowden Says a Report Critical To an NSA Lawsuit Is Authentic 70
Supreme Court Rejects Industry Challenge of 2015 Net Neutrality Rules 56
Chinese Chip Firm Fujian Jinhua Denies Stealing IP From Micron 58
Tesla Says Justice Department, SEC Are Investigating Model 3 Production Targets 116
Patent Troll Values Its Entire Portfolio At $2, Goes Bankrupt 117
Supreme Court Scrutinizing Class Action Settlements That Leave Consumers Empty-Handed 133
Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea 177
Qualcomm Says Apple Is $7 Billion Behind In Royalty Payments 116
What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home For Piracy 124
Chinese Court Rules Bitcoin Should Be Protected As Property 51
California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case 76
Facebook Fined Maximum Legal Amount For Cambridge Analytica Scandal 62
Samsung is Suing Its Brand Ambassador For Using an iPhone in Public 144
In First Ruling of Its Kind, Apple and Samsung Fined For Deliberately Slowing Down Old Phones 187
Google Can't Remove Third-Party App Store Aptoide From Users' Android Phones, Portuguese Courts Rule 77
Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach 36
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Sues Ecuador For 'Violating His Rights' 225
Internet Provider Groups Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Law 101
eBay Files Lawsuit Against Amazon Over 'Seller Recruitment' 38
The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape 164
Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent 83
Australian Federal Court Grants Publisher of GTA V Game Right To Search Homes of Five People Accused of Making Cheat Software 131
New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry Into Net Neutrality Comments 93
Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats 396
EU Ruling: Self-Driving Car Data Will Be Copyrighted By the Manufacturer 69
New App Lets You 'Sue Anyone By Pressing a Button' 105
Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine In Android Case 52
UK High Court Blocks Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Against Google 43
Limo Firm To Judge: Tell Us Whether Uber Drivers Are Employees 102
Former South Korean President Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Accepting $5.4 Million In Bribes From Samsung 152
Years After ProPublica Exposed Vizio For Spying On Users, Lawyers Will Make Millions From Lawsuit 64
Seven Russian Hackers Charged With Hacking Anti-Doping Organizations 115
New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert 511
Cities Will Sue FCC To Stop $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers 71
Entire Broadband Industry Sues California To Stop Net Neutrality Law 293
Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges, Must Step Down As Tesla's Chairman 234
Elon Musk Pulled Out of Settlement With SEC At Last Minute 198
Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack 24
Uber Settles Data Breach Investigation For $148 Million 18
Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files 174
Uber Wins Key Ruling In Its Fight Against Treating Drivers As Employees 177
Qualcomm Accuses Apple of Stealing Trade Secrets and Giving Them To Intel 100
Facebook Is Not Protecting Content Moderators From Mental Trauma, Lawsuit Claims 210
Judge Orders Cloudflare To Turn Over Identifying Data In Copyright Case 56
Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints 127
Should The US Government Break Up Google, Twitter, and Facebook? 302
The New York Times Sues FCC For Net Neutrality Records 55
VW Group, BMW and Daimler Are Under Investigation For Collusion In Europe 151
EU Drops Court Case After Apple Repays More Than $16 Billion In Taxes and Interest To Ireland 118
Man Who Uploaded Deadpool To Facebook May Get Six Months In Prison 215
IBM is Being Sued For Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands 115
Limo Firm To Uber: You Misclassify Your Drivers As Contractors, Which Is Unfair 69
UK's GCHQ Intelligence Agency Violated Human Rights With Its Mass Surveillance Tactics, Top European Court Rules 45
OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction 204
DOJ: We Will Examine Social Media Firms That 'May Be Hurting Competition' 115
Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Its Voice-Messaging Tech 28
Google Has Notified At Least Dozens of People Targeted by Secret FBI Investigation 103
US Health Insurer Premera Blue Cross Accused of Destroying Evidence in Data Breach Lawsuit 72
An Abusive Silicon Valley CEO Is Going To Jail 124
Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers 102
FCC Can Define Markets With Only One ISP as 'Competitive', Court Rules 163
US Court of Appeals: An IP Address Isn't Enough To Identify a Pirate 168
Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on 3-D Gun Blueprint Case 418
EFF Defends Bruce Perens In Appeal of Open Source Security/Spengler Ruling 132
Airbnb Sues New York City To Block User-Data Bill Over Privacy 64
Woman Sues US Border Agents Over Seized iPhone 277
Texas ISP Slams Music Industry For Trying To Turn It Into a 'Copyright Cop' 99
22 States Ask US Appeals Court To Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules 125
Judge Guts FTC's $4 Billion Lawsuit Against DirecTV 57
Man Sues Over Google's 'Location History' Fiasco, Case Could Affect Millions 84
Facebook Flat-Out 'Lies' About How Many People Can See Its Ads, Lawsuit Alleges 70
US Judge Blocks Programs Letting 'Grand Theft Auto' Players 'Cheat' 112
Melbourne Teen Hacked Into Apple's Secure Computer Network, Court Told 125
Investor Sues AT&T Over Two-Factor Security Flaws, $23 Million Cryptocurrency Theft 120
Tinder Founders Sue Dating App's Owners For At Least $2 Billion 26
Court Blocks FCC's Attempt To Take a Broadband Subsidy Away From Tribal Areas 79
Oracle Accused of Defrauding Investors On Cloud Sales Growth 65
Short-Sellers Sue Tesla After Musk's 'Going Private' Tweets 383
Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289 Million In Roundup Cancer Trial 219
Lawsuit Threat Shuts Down ROM Downloads On Major Emulation Site 'EmuParadise' 79
Tribune Terminates $3.9 Billion Merger With Rival Sinclair 54
Georgia Defends Electronic Voting Machines Despite 243-Percent Turnout In One Precinct 431
Online Photos Can't Simply Be Republished, EU Court Rules 154
BBC Wants Microsoft To Expose 'Doctor Who' Leaker 219
Record Labels File 'Billion Dollar' Piracy Lawsuit Against ISP Cox 122
Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court To Wipe Out Decision Upholding Net Neutrality 192
Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns 401
20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet 490
European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops 100
IBM Wins $83 Million From Groupon In E-Commerce Patents Case 33
Facebook Forced To Block 20,000 Posts About Snack Food Conspiracy After PepsiCo Sues, Says Report 118
Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court 150
Nintendo To ROM Sites: Forget Cease-and-Desist, Now We're Suing 296
Uber Drivers 'Employees' For Unemployment Purposes, New York Labor Board Says 54
IBM Wants $167 Million From Groupon Over Alleged Patent Infringement 64
Appeals Court Won't Take Up Copyright Decision That Raised Alarm About Embedding, Linking 117
Uber Faces Federal Investigation Over Alleged Gender Discrimination 45
Judge Jails Defendent For Failing To Unlock Phones 506
You Can Inherit Facebook Content Like a Letter or Diary, German Court Rules 119
TSA Screeners Win Immunity From Abuse Claims, Court Rules 317
Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Opposes Net Neutrality 579
Ex-Apple Worker Charged With Stealing Self-Driving Car Trade Secrets 54
DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms 374
Post Office Owes $3.5 Million For Using Wrong Statue of Liberty On a Stamp 133
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To US On Copyright Charges, New Zealand Court Rules 205
US Online Piracy Lawsuits Break Record Numbers 43
Companies Must Let Customers Cancel Subscriptions Online, California Law Says 100
The BBC Is Heading To Court To Hunt Down a Doctor Who Leaker 158
Micron Chip Sales Banned In China On Patent Case 74
Copying Photos Found on Internet is Fair Use, Virginia Federal Court Rules 159
AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead 192
Yelp Can't Be Ordered To Remove Posts, Court Rules 55
Fiat Chrysler Is Being Sued Over a Software Flaw 30
EFF Sues To Invalidate FOSTA, An Unconstitutional Internet Censorship Law 89
Uber Granted Short-Term License To Operate In London 27
Judge Rules Big Oil Can't Be Sued For Climate Change Costs 418
Tech Giants Urge Congress To 'Protect Entrepreneurs' From Supreme Court Ruling 300
Bethesda Sues Warner Bros, Calls Its Westworld Game 'Blatant Rip-Off' of Fallout Shelter 109
Supreme Court Backs Award of Overseas Patent Damages 54
Supreme Court: Warrant Generally Needed To Track Cell Phone Location Data 195
Bitcoin Makes Historic First Appearance In US Supreme Court Opinion 29
Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data 153
Facebook Ordered To Explain Deleted Profile 70
Bricked iPhones With 'Error 53' Just Cost Apple $6.7 Million in Australia 118
Ex-CIA Employee Charged In Major Leak of Agency Hacking Tools 136
The Supreme Court Will Decide If Apple's App Store Is a Monopoly 256
Prosecution of UK News Photographer Collapses After Recording Disproves Police Testimony 207
'Open Source Security' Loses in Court, Must Pay $259,900 To Bruce Perens 141
The Silk Road's Alleged Right-Hand Man Will Finally Face a US Court 74
US Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani 125
6 Fitbit Employees Charged With Stealing Trade Secrets From Jawbone 80
A British Plumber May Show Uber the Future of Employment 98
Turkey Bans Periscope 87
Vietnam Lawmakers Approve Cyber Law Clamping Down on Tech Firms, Dissent 46
Google Facing Billions in EU Antitrust Fines 230
US Piles New Charges on Marcus Hutchins (aka MalwareTech) 104
YouTube Can Be Liable For Copyright Infringing Videos, Court Rules 170
Judge Rules Amazon Isn't Liable For Damages Caused By a Hoverboard It Sold 176
Woman Looking At Apple Watch Found Guilty of Distracted Driving 128
German Spy Agency Can Keep Tabs On Internet Hubs, Federal Court Rules 54
AT&T Wants To Settle With FTC To Avoid Unlimited Data Throttling Lawsuit 35
Kaspersky Suits Tossed, Fed Bans Will Continue 82
More Firms Used Facebook To Block Older Job Seekers, Lawsuit Alleges 223
Russia Demands Apple Remove Telegram From Russian App Store 113
Canadian Hacker Sentenced To 5 Years For Yahoo Security Breach 21
Intel Faces Age Discrimination Allegations Following Layoffs 262
PUBG and Epic Games, Makers of Two of the World's Most Popular Video Games, Set To Battle in Court 174
Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? 301
Judge Backs Parents, Saying Their 30-Year-Old Son Must Move Out 419
Tesla Agrees To Settle Class Action Over Autopilot Billed As 'Safer' 66
Samsung Must Pay Apple $539 Million For Infringing iPhone Design Patents, Jury Finds 143
ACLU Sues ICE For License Plate Reader Contracts, Records 84
Singapore ISPs Block 53 Pirate Sites Following MPAA Legal Action 45
President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules 396
Yelp Files New EU Complaint Against Google Over Search Dominance 71
Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions 343
Google Sued For 'Clandestine Tracking' of 4.4 Million UK iPhone Users' Browsing Data 33
Utilities, Tesla Appeal Federal Rollback of Auto Emissions Standards 118
Alleged Owners of Mugshots.com Have Been Arrested For Extortion 101
California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen 277
Uber Drops Arbitration Requirement For Sexual Assault Victims 90
Facebook Faulted By Judge For 'Troubling Theme' In Privacy Case 62
Class Action Suit Filed Against Apple Over the Keyboards in MacBook Pro and MacBook Laptops 219
Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls 127
US Appeals Court Rules Border Agents Need Suspicion To Search Cellphones 116
Apple's Eddy Cue To Be Deposed In Qualcomm Patent Battle 34
California Leads States In Suing the EPA For Attacking Vehicle Emissions Standards 247
Man Sues Nation For Allegedly Seizing France.com, a Domain He Has Owned For Over 20 Years 214
Tesla Driver Banned From Driving For 18 Months For Sitting in Passenger Seat 138
Patent 'Death Squad' System Upheld by US Supreme Court 90
Netflix, Amazon, and Major Studios Try To Shut Down $20-Per-Month TV Service 212
Facebook Sued Over Fake Ads 63
UK Teen Who Hacked CIA Director Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison 150
AT&T, Verizon Under US Investigation For Collusion To Lock In Customers 39
Democratic Party Files Suit Alleging Russia, the Trump Campaign, and WikiLeaks Conspired To Disrupt the 2016 Election 669
LA Councilman Asks City Attorney To 'Review Possible Legal Action' Against Waze 214
German Supreme Court Rules Ad Blockers Legal 134
A Florida Man Has been Accused of Making 97 Million Robocalls 176
Supreme Court Set To Hear Landmark Online Sales Tax Case 248
Facebook Must Face Class-Action Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition, Says Judge 79
Europe Divided Over Robot 'Personhood' 246
Uber Drivers Are Independent Contractors, Not Employees, Judge Rules 192
Apple Must Pay Patent Troll More Than $500 Million In iMessage Case 75
Three Execs Get Prison Time For Pirating Oracle Firmware & Solaris OS Update 119
FBI Seizes Backpage.com, a Site Criticized For Sex-Related Ads 163
The Supreme Court Fight Over Microsoft's Foreign Servers Is Over 94
CenturyLink Fights Billing-Fraud Lawsuit By Claiming That It Has No Customers 198
Suit To Let Researchers Break Website Rules Wins a Round 71
Microsoft Email Privacy Case No Longer Needed, Says The US 84
'GTA V' Character Doesn't Resemble Lindsay Lohan, Court Rules 67
Coffee Requires Cancer Warning, California Judge Rules 330
Uber Settles With Family of Woman Killed By Self-Driving Car, Avoids Lawsuit 124
AT&T/Verizon Lobbyists To 'Aggressively' Sue States That Enact Net Neutrality 133
Facebook is Being Sued Over Housing Discrimination 125
Oracle Wins Revival of Billion-Dollar Case Against Google 332
Confirmation of a US Government Probe Pushes Facebook's Market Loss To $90 Billion 73
Justice Department Revives Push To Mandate a Way To Unlock Phones 171
Pirate Music Site's Owner Sentenced to Five Years in Prison 101
Facebook Gets Hit With Four Lawsuits Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal 102
AT&T Suffers Another Blow In Court Over Throttling of 'Unlimited' Data 40
Telegram Loses Supreme Court Appeal In Russia, Must Hand Over Encryption Keys 217
North Carolina Police Obtained Warrants Demanding All Google Users Near Four Crime Scenes 214
Entire Broadband Industry Will Help FCC Defend Net Neutrality Repeal 88
Man Fined For Implanting NFC Train Ticket In Hand 107
Walmart Whistleblower Claims Cheating In Race With Amazon 35
Toys R Us To Close All 800 of Its US Stores 195
'Women At Microsoft Are Sexualized By Their Male Managers,' Lawsuit Alleges 181
ACLU Sues TSA Over Electronic Device Searches 115
Data Breach Victims Can Sue Yahoo in the United States, Federal Judge Rules 13
Linux Developer McHardy Drops GPLv2 'Shake Down' Case 53

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