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Software re-sale restricted by US Court of Appeals

Posted on September 13, 2010
Software company Autodesk can stop a man from re-selling second-hand copies of its software because the programs are licensed to users, not owned by them, a US appeals court has ruled.Software producers who clearly impose restrictions on buyers and make it clear that buyers are only licensing material rather than buying it outright do have the right to restrict second hand sales of the material, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has said...

Philly news drivers last holdout to court sale

Posted on September 13, 2010
The publisher of Philadelphia's two largest newspapers is pushing unionized drivers to agree to contract terms before Tuesday's bankruptcy sale deadline.Drivers who deliver The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News are balking at plans to end company contributions to their Teamsters' pension fund...

Abused Women Win Parole After Three Decades of Imprisonment

Posted on September 13, 2010
For over 30 years, Carlene Borden, 65, and Vicky Williams, 55, have been incarcerated for the murders of their abusive husbands. Their sentences, life without the possibility of parole for fifty years, were handed down without any evidence of their abuse being presented at their trials...

Zimbabwe court frees on bail US health workers

Posted on September 13, 2010
A Zimbabwean court on Monday freed on bail four Americans arrested and accused of treating AIDS patients without proper medical licenses.A magistrate ordered the six health workers, who included a New Zealand national and a Zimbabwean, to pay a $200 bail and to reappear in court on Sept...

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Federal Court Lifts Ban on Stem Cell Research

Posted on September 12, 2010
On Thursday, a federal appeals court held that federal funding for embryonic stem cell research could continue. The ruling comes nearly two weeks after Federal Judge Royce C. Lamberth blocked President Obama's 2009 executive order expanding stem cell research, citing a 1998 statute banning the use of federal funding for the destruction of embryos...

The Shuman Law Firm Announces Class Action Lawsuit

Posted on September 12, 2010
The Shuman Law Firm today announced that a class action lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Corinthian Colleges, Inc. If you wish to discuss this action or have any questions concerning this notice or your rights and interests with respect to this matter, please contact Kip B...

Appeals court backs Chevron in Nigeria dispute

Posted on September 11, 2010
A federal appeals court in San Francisco has upheld a jury verdict clearing the Chevron Corp. of alleged human rights abuses during a violent 1998 protest on a company oil platform in Nigeria.The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the lower court judge conducted the 2008 trial that resulted in the verdict without error and instructed jurors properly...

Microsoft Scores Court Victory Against Waledac Botnet

Posted on September 10, 2010
A federal judge has brought Microsoft one step closer to seizing control of 276 domains controlled by the Waledac botnet.A magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia decided Sept. 3 to recommend that a default judgment be granted in Microsoft's favor...

Former NBA player Rumeal Robinson guilty of fraud

Posted on September 10, 2010
Rumeal Robinson, who led Michigan to the NCAA championship in 1989, has been found guilty on 11 federal financial fraud charges.A jury returned its verdict against Robinson on Wednesday, finding him guilty of bank bribery, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and making a false statement to a financial institution...

OC-ALA to Cycle for Challenged Athletes Foundation

Posted on September 10, 2010
A cycling fundraiser benefiting the Challenged Athletes Foundation will be hosted by the Orange County Chapter of the Association of Legal Administrators (OC-ALA) on October 10, 2010 at 10 a.m. at Bill Barber Park in Irvine. The charity ride is in honor of the late David Brezina, of Colorado, who served as the 1996-1997 National President of the Association of Legal Administrators...

Court won't order California to defend Prop 8

Posted on September 10, 2010
California's highest court on Wednesday refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the state's attorney general to appeal a federal ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban.The state Supreme Court denied a conservative legal group's request to force the state officials to defend the voter-approved ban...

Appeals court ends tattoo parlor ban in Calif city

Posted on September 10, 2010
A federal appeals court struck down a city ban on tattoo parlors Thursday, ruling the artistic expression is entitled to free speech protection under the U.S. Constitution.The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Southern California city of Hermosa Beach to allow tattoo parlors to operate...

Officials rescue 37 immigrants from Calif. house

Posted on September 09, 2010
Immigration authorities have rescued more than three dozen immigrants who were locked inside a sweltering boarded-up bedroom in a Southern California house.Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said Wednesday some of the 37 immigrants from six Latin American countries had been held for weeks in the 10-by-10-foot room in Riverside and had gone several days without food...

Court asked to keep stem cell money flowing

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Obama administration is asking a federal appeals court to lift an order blocking federal funding for some stem cell research, a day after being turned down by the judge who issued the order.The administration told a federal appeals court in Washington on Wednesday that the order by U...

Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation

Posted on September 09, 2010
The Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer & Hill, P.A. Announces Investigation Into The Sales Practices Of Broker-Dealers That Solicited Purchases of Inverse and Leveraged Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) The Securities Arbitration Firm of Menzer & Hill, P...

Statman, Harris & Eyrich, LLC Announces Class Action

Posted on September 09, 2010
The law firm of Statman, Harris & Eyrich, LLC, which has significant experience in class actions, announced today that a class action has been filed against Almost Family Inc. ("Almost Family" or the "Company") for potential violations of state and federal law...

China's blind activist lawyer released from prison

Posted on September 09, 2010
A blind, self-taught activist lawyer who documented forced abortions and other abuses was released from a Chinese prison Thursday and promptly locked down in his rural village with no access to communication, a relative said.Chen Guangcheng, 39, is a charismatic, inspirational figure for civil liberties lawyers who have fought to enforce the rights enshrined in China's Constitution but often breached by the authoritarian government and police...

Garner Man Pleads Guilty To Transmitting Child Porn

Posted on September 08, 2010
A Garner man has pleaded guilty Tuesday to transmitting child pornography over the internet.Gary Wayne Robinson, 28, entered the plea in federal court before Judge James C. Fox.Garner Police were alerted to Robinson after they say he engaged in an online chat with an undercover officer in New Hampshire in October of 2009...

Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders

Posted on September 08, 2010
In Six Flags Inc.'s bankruptcy case last fall, a hedge fund that owned senior bonds negotiated the theme-park company's reorganization plan, then dumped lower-ranking bonds it figured would lose value under the deal.Other creditors cried foul. The hedge fund had used knowledge learned during its negotiations to gain an unfair edge, they suggested, accusing the fund of a "hijacking of the reorganization process...

Free Online Training for Lawyerpreneurs

Posted on September 08, 2010
Being laid off by the hundreds nation-wide, many lawyers are now transforming into lawyerpreneurs. These lawyers are now seeking employment inside and outside of the law and starting their own practices. According to Sonia Gallagher, a lawyer coach and CEO of Time for Life, LLC, lawyerpreneurs are lawyers who integrate the legal skills and experience they?ve learned while practicing law, with the business attraction, development, and management skills they need to thrive in today?s economy...

Bob Marley's daughter pleads guilty to drug charge

Posted on September 08, 2010
The youngest child of reggae legend Bob Marley has admitted growing marijuana in her Philadelphia-area home.The Daily Local News of West Chester reports 29-year-old Makeda Jahnesta Marley pleaded guilty Tuesday to having nearly a dozen large marijuana plants inside her home in Caln, about 30 miles west of Philadelphia...

Indian court upholds big tax bill against Vodafone

Posted on September 08, 2010
In a landmark ruling Wednesday, an Indian court said Vodafone Group Plc is liable for an estimated $2.6 billion in taxes for its 2007 acquisition of one of India's largest mobile phone companies.The decision sets a precedent that could impact hundreds of foreign transactions and have a chilling effect on foreign investment, tax experts say...

Official: Obama to back more business tax breaks

Posted on September 07, 2010
President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of showing action on the economy ahead of the November elections...

French Court Endorses eBay-Louis Vuitton Ruling

Posted on September 07, 2010
The Paris Court of Appeal confirmed that eBay was liable for a counterfeiting conviction for selling on its website imitation Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey (LVMH) products between 2001 and 2006.EBay?s actions were in violation of the authorized selective distribution networks of LVMH...

Top Ga. court considers voter ID law

Posted on September 07, 2010
Georgia's top court is considering the legality of the state's oft-challenged law that requires voters to show photo identification before they cast their ballots.The Georgia Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday on a new type of legal challenge brought by the law's opponents...

Stem cell work in limbo awaiting court?s decision

Posted on September 07, 2010
Many stem cell researchers have been left uncertain about their own future and the future of their field as they wait for a federal judge to decide whether to allow the NIH to fund human embryonic stem cell research, within and without of its walls.A recent federal court injunction barred NIH labs from performing human embryonic stem cell research, and also stopped the NIH from funding grants that supported such research...

Flight attendant in passenger tiff due in N.Y. court

Posted on September 07, 2010
A former JetBlue flight attendant accused of cursing out an airplane passenger and then sliding down an emergency exit chute is due in a New York City courtroom. Steven Slater is scheduled to appear today for a routine hearing on criminal-mischief charges...

Hemispherx Biopharma settles class action securities lawsuits

Posted on September 05, 2010
Hemispherx Biopharma agreed Tuesday to settle all of the pending securities class actions against the biotechnology company that had been consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.The proposed settlement requires formal court approval...

Lawyer: Ford, family settle in player crash death

Posted on September 03, 2010
An attorney says Ford Motor Co. has settled a Mississippi lawsuit over damages sought from a 2001 rollover crash that killed a New York Mets prospect in the Florida Panhandle.Tab Turner, an attorney for the family of Brian Cole, told The Associated Press the settlement Thursday came after the jury in Jasper County awarded $131 million in actual damages to the family and before it was to consider possible punitive damages...

Manning chooses civilian lawyer in WikiLeaks case

Posted on September 03, 2010
An Army private suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks has chosen a civilian attorney to lead his defense team.The Army says former military attorney David Coombs, of Providence, R.I., will represent Pfc. Bradley Manning against charges he leaked video of a 2007 U...

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