Recent Updates
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Samsung to pay Rambus $700 million in settlement
Headline Legal News 01/20/2010Samsung Electronics will pay Rambus Inc. $700 million over five years, and invest another $200 million in the chip design company as part of a settlement ending their legal disputes, the two companies said Tuesday. Samsung will make an upfront paymen...
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Appellate court overturns Kickapoo conviction
Headline Legal News 01/06/2010A federal appellate court has overturned the conviction of a former tribal casino manager and his family for allegedly stealing from a tribal casino near the Texas-Mexico border. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans overturned the embezzle...
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Supreme Court halts release of 2 murderers
Headline Legal News 12/18/2009North Carolina's Supreme Court has temporarily halted the release of two convicted murderers under life sentences.The court granted a request from the state attorney general's office Friday afternoon, shortly before Alford Jones and Faye Brown were s...
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Guilty plea in Wash. shooting spree that killed 6
Headline Legal News 11/18/2009A man who killed six people, including a sheriff's deputy, in a northwest Washington shooting rampage last year pleaded guilty Tuesday and will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital or prison.Isaac Zamora entered the pleas to 18 charges, in...
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Obama administration: Toss wiretap lawsuit
Headline Legal News 11/02/2009Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out. In making the argument, the Obama administration agreed with the Bush administration's pos...
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Nokia’s lawsuit against Apple over iPhone likely a negotiating tactic over licensing fees
Headline Legal News 10/26/2009CrunchGear's Jeremy Kessel recnetly spoke with "Barry L. Cohen, Esq.,who specializes in commercial and business litigation and intellectualproperty litigation and licensing at Thorp Reed & Armstrong,[regarding] his thoughts on the Nokia v. Apple ...
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Madoff trustee sues Madoff family for almost $200M
Headline Legal News 10/02/2009Bernard Madoff's brother, sons and a niece used the family finance business like a "piggy bank," a court-appointed trustee charged Friday as he demanded in a lawsuit that they return almost $200 million in money to be distributed to cheated investors...
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ACLU Demands Info On DHS Computer Searches At Borders
Headline Legal News 08/28/2009According to Courthouse News, the ACLU demands information on the Department of Homeland Security's policy on searching laptop computers at international borders. The DHS' Customs and Border Protection office announced in July that it can search elec...
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Veteran Says Mercenaries Shot Him In Iraq
Headline Legal News 08/27/2009Courthouse News reports that civilian security contractors in Iraq shot and permanently disabled a US Special Forces sergeant as he returned to Baghdad International Airport after an intelligence mission, the veteran claims in Federal Court. Sgt. Kha...
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Former Prof Arrested, Accused of Taking 2 Guns Into Law Library
Headline Legal News 08/26/2009According to the ABA Journal, a former adjunct faculty member at the University of Louisville's law school was arrested Friday after allegedly bringing two handguns and 53 rounds of ammunition into the law school library around 8:30 a.m. Police were ...
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Former Stanford Investment Advisers Push to Get Assets Unfrozen
Headline Legal News 08/26/2009The Fulton County Daily Reports states that when Stanford International Bank, the financial institution founded by larger-than-life Texan R. Allen Stanford, imploded earlier this year after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the bank of f...
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Class Claims Facebook Invades Privacy, Sells Personal Information
Headline Legal News 08/25/2009Facebook invades the privacy of its customers and misappropriates people's images and personal information for marketing and commercial purposes, a class action claims in Orange County Court, Calif. The class claims Facebook's "unconscionable" terms ...