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Court Dismisses Google Search-fixing Case
News District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange on Tuesday denied a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by SearchKing, a Web hosting and advertising network that claimed Google unfairly removed links to its site and those of its partners from...
[June 2, 2003, 9:29]
Court Resists Trend In Net Address Case
News In a rare victory for an individual domain name owner, a federal court has thrown out the cybersquatting claims of a truck manufacturer against a computer consultant. In June 2000, the company filed suit with the US District Court for the Eastern...
[September 6, 2001, 10:56]
Court Of Appeals To Hear Microsoft Case
News This does not stop the government from trying to expedite the case by moving it onto the so-called fast track to the Supreme Court. Indeed, late in the day, lawyers for the government said they intended to file a request to have the Supreme Court...
[June 14, 2000, 8:52]
Court Rules For Web Users In Privacy Case
News The decision, handed down on Friday by the First Circuit US Court of Appeals, clears the way for some pharmaceutical Web site users to pursue a class-action case against the operators of Boston-based Pharmatrak.
[May 13, 2003, 12:26]
Lucent Loses Court Case Over Employee Web Site
News A French court has ruled that Lucent Technologies was liable for an illicit Internet site created by one of the company's employees, because the worker created the site on company time and with equipment provided by Lucent.
[July 11, 2003, 16:56]
Irate Bulldog User Settles Court Case
News The case was due to be heard at a London court last Friday, but it is understood that Oppenheim has agreed to accept an undisclosed sum from Bulldog in compensation. A UK businessman who suffered weeks of disruption after signing up to Bulldog has...
[March 13, 2006, 12:05]
Fax Error Costs EC €100m Court Case
News A lawyer's failure to operate a fax machine correctly has been blamed for the European Commission losing a multi-million-euro court case. According to Friday's Financial Times, the European Court of First Instance overturned the fine because an EC...
[October 15, 2004, 15:05]
Contractor Loses High Court IR35 Case
News The High Court on Friday denied a software contractor's challenge to the IR35 tax regime in a case that a contractors' group called "a bitter blow" for the UK's 100,000 IT freelancers. The court decided against IT consultant Gordon Stutchbury in...
[March 31, 2003, 15:45]
Supreme Court To Hear Case On 'obviousness' Of Patents
News Whether the high court upholds the controversial test for obviousness, constructs a new one or falls somewhere in between, the case is certain to make waves in the patent world, industry observers said.
[November 28, 2006, 10:02]
DVD-copying Case Heads For Court
News The case, which will be heard in US District Court in San Francisco, holds important consequences not only for software developers and for the motion picture industry but also for consumers, who face increasingly complex rules governing the uses...
[May 15, 2003, 8:01]
Microsoft Asks Supreme Court To Take Case
News We will continue to work to resolve the remaining issues in the case through settlement, but we are seeking Supreme Court review of this important issue," Microsoft spokesman Vivek Varma said. Microsoft also asked the Court of Appeals to stay the...
[August 8, 2001, 9:21]
Supreme Court Backs Off DVD Case
News The DVDCCA's case bifurcated after a second defendant, California resident Andrew Bunner, did not fight the court's jurisdiction but argued he had a First Amendment right to distribute DeCSS. Neither the Bunner nor the Pavlovich case is related to...
[January 6, 2003, 8:06]
Supreme Court Hears File-swapping Case
News Technology consumer groups said the lower court's ruling had been right and that the Supreme Court should not accept the case. Hollywood studios and record companies on Friday asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn a controversial series...
[October 11, 2004, 9:30]
ICANN Asks Court To Reject VeriSign's Case
News ICANN's response says that VeriSign's antitrust, breach of contract and other claims "are not ripe" for a court to consider "because they depend on future contingencies" that may or may not take place.
[April 7, 2004, 13:50]
Spam Case - Virgin Settles Out Of Court
News Virgin Net business development director David Johnson said that although the case will be seen by many as a test case he wanted the case to go to court "to set a clear precedent for the future". The writ against Surrey businessman Adrian Paris who...
[May 26, 1999, 13:17]
Court Case Shines Light On Security Ethics
Talkback Is it true that this researcher has authored the Happy99 virus?
[January 15, 2005, 11:49]
Court Case Shines Light On Security Ethics
Talkback "At present, no software companies provide financial rewards for those who report valid vulnerabilities to them. Dan your just wrong. Doh! http://www.mozilla.org/security/bug-bounty.html The Mozilla Security Bug Bounty Program is designed to...
[January 14, 2005, 15:21]
Court Case Shines Light On Security Ethics
News The legal action currently being brought by French software company Tegam International against Guillaume Tena, who claimed to have found flaws in its software, has sparked a debate on how the reporting of security vulnerabilities should be handled.
[January 13, 2005, 12:45]
Irate Bulldog User Settles Court Case
Talkback It is a great pity that Mr Oppenheim decided to accept a cash settlement rather than his originally stated aim to obtain full disclosure of the facts behind last year's service failures. It is my own experience that some ISPs are far too secretive...
[March 13, 2006, 12:55]
Irate Bulldog User Settles Court Case
Talkback Reading the forums of adslguide, it sounds to me that some ambulance chasing lawyer could find enough to get on the case and try to start a class action lawsuit (or the uk equivalent). I had a similar episode with bulldog, signing up and then...
[March 14, 2006, 11:57]
