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US lawyers 'threatened' Nasa hacker, court hears
News Moreover, in a letter to McKinnon dated 9 April, 2003, Gibson said the US authorities would reserve the right to prosecute McKinnon under US military law, which carries much more stringent penalties, Pannick told the court.
[June 16, 2008, 18:08]
Court: Network Associates can't gag users
News New York state Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Shafer issued a ruling, made public this week, prohibiting the security software specialist from trying to use its end-user licence agreements to ban product reviews or benchmark tests.
[January 20, 2003, 11:03]
Court orders ICANN to open books
News During the 90-minute hearing, Superior Court Judge Dzintra Janavs said that ICANN board members could not be denied their right under California law to review financial records, travel logs, legal contracts and other internal documents.
[July 30, 2002, 9:40]
Court sides with Microsoft in Sun lawsuit
News Sun's claims came in spite of the fact that the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a preliminary injunction against Microsoft, pending further clarification from the US District Court in San Jose, California.
[August 24, 1999, 8:12]
Court dismisses charges against HP's Dunn
News The three other remaining defendants — former HP attorney Kevin Hunsaker; private detective Ronald DeLia; and Matthew DePante of data-brokering company Action Research Group — pleaded no contest to a count of fraudulent wire communications at...
[March 15, 2007, 10:34]
Court rejects Microsoft bid for delay
News A federal appeals court on Friday delivered Microsoft a blow in its antitrust battle with the government, denying a request that could have indefinitely delayed further proceedings in the case. The order, issued by the US Court of Appeals for the...
[August 17, 2001, 16:58]
Court sides with Good against RIM
News Good said Wednesday that Orange County Superior Court Judge Raymond J. According to RIM, the court did grant its request to shorten the pretrial discovery period. A California judge has denied a request from Research In Motion for a temporary...
[October 10, 2002, 9:29]
Court reverses Microsoft patent-infringement ruling
News A US federal court on Tuesday reversed an earlier ruling that Microsoft's product-activation technology infringed on another company's patent, overturning a $388m verdict in the case. In a ruling on Tuesday, the court vacated the earlier decision...
[September 30, 2009, 8:22]
Court rules university can publish Oyster crack
News A university can publish details of research detailing the cryptographic cracking of the Oyster travel smartcard, a Dutch court has ruled. The court in Arnheim found on Friday that Radboud University could publish the paper.
[July 18, 2008, 17:00]
Court gives nod to Mac OS X refund
News A Los Angeles Superior Court judge gave preliminary approval to the settlement at a hearing last month. Apple denied those claims in court filings but said it was willing to settle in order to avoid the legal costs of continuing to fight them.
[October 31, 2003, 10:10]
Court: Itanium infringes patents
News A federal court ruled on Thursday that Intel's Itanium processor violates patents owned by Intergraph and ordered Intel to pay $150m (£96m) in damages. Years ago, a court threw out antitrust complaints filed by Intergraph, and this past April...
[October 11, 2002, 7:40]
Court upholds ex-Intel worker's deluge of critical emails
News Setting a new precedent in Internet law, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an ex-Intel worker did not trespass on company computer systems when he emailed thousands of messages critical of his former employer to staffers at work.
[July 1, 2003, 9:22]
Court blocks DVD-cracking suit
News The California Supreme Court handed Hollywood's antipiracy efforts a setback on Monday, ruling that a Texas resident who posted controversial DVD-cracking code online can't be sued in the California. The ruling, released by the court on Monday...
[November 26, 2002, 8:19]
Court delays Microsoft vs Lindows trial
Talkback Presumably this court action is just another stage in Microsoft's bid to own the word "windows", and by extension "window", outright. But when it achieves that, what next? Will it, I wonder, build a case for levying an annual royalty, if not on...
[December 1, 2003, 14:37]
Court dismisses most Sony claims against Connectix
News The decision should come as no surprise: In February, an appeals court lifted a preliminary injunction that prevented Connectix from shipping VGS. In that ruling, the judges sided with Connectix on the key issues in the dispute and remanded the...
[May 17, 2000, 12:09]
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 rules against TorrentSpy in hacking case
News A lawsuit filed last year by TorrentSpy — a BitTorrent search engine — that accused the movie studios' trade group of intercepting the company's private emails, was tossed out of court last week. But while a US district judge found that the Motion...
[August 29, 2007, 11:05]
Court delays Microsoft vs Lindows trial
News The court case between Microsoft and desktop Linux-maker Lindows.com, over Microsoft's ownership of the word 'windows', has been delayed for at least another three months. This time, the US District Court in Seattle has rescheduled the trial for 1...
[November 25, 2003, 14:30]
Court orders Sony to pay rootkit victims
News The court action picked up last fall when security researchers exposed the behaviour of First4Internet's XCP and SunnComm's MediaMax, which are automatically installed on a user's computer upon loading certain Sony BMG music CDs.
[May 23, 2006, 9:55]
Court rules in favour of ICANN
News In a ruling released Thursday, a federal court in Los Angeles dismissed charges filed by two domain name registrars that alleged the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had engaged in anticompetitive practices.
[November 17, 2003, 11:10]
