Oracle Judge Refuses To Seal Secrets
News Concern over the disclosure of trade secrets has cropped up again in the pretrial phase of the United States' antitrust case against Oracle, with a federal judge sternly rebuking a Department of Justice request to shelter evidence or testimony...
[April 19, 2004, 10:30]
Restrictions Lifted On NY Times Hacker
News Lamo's computer access also "may be monitored in the discretion of pretrial services," Freeman said during an afternoon hearing. Freeman also read Lamo his rights, reviewed a financial affidavit that showed he was essentially penniless, and said...
[September 15, 2003, 11:10]
Naughton Lawyers Try Role-playing Defence
News However, Federal Judge Edward Rafeedie clamped down on that evidence during a pretrial hearing, saying he was hesitant to allow the fantasy testimony because it didn't seem relevant. Therefore, prosecutors said during a pretrial hearing, Naughton...
[December 8, 1999, 6:00]
Microsoft 'destroyed Evidence' In Patent Case
News Burst.com, a streaming media software company, on Monday filed a pretrial motion with a US District Court in Baltimore asking the judge to find Microsoft has destroyed evidence and to instruct a jury to take that into consideration once the...
[November 19, 2004, 7:40]
Naughton: Child Porn 'unsolicited'
News The trial of Patrick Naughton was delayed until Dec.during a routine pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles Monday. The former Infoseek executive was scheduled Tuesday to face charges that he allegedly crossed state lines to engage...
[November 30, 1999, 15:26]
Attorney: Naughton Was Sent 'unsolicited' Child Porn
News The trial of Patrick Naughton was delayed until December 7 during a routine pretrial hearing in US District Court Monday. The former Infoseek executive was set Tuesday to face charges that he crossed state lines to engage in sexual activity with a...
[November 30, 1999, 9:27]
US Report: Microsoft Asks Court To Keep Pre-trial Testimony Closed
News Microsoft told a federal appeals court Monday that it must close to the public pretrial testimony in the government's antitrust case against it or risk creating a "media circus" that will only hamper its efforts to prepare for trial next month.
[August 19, 1998, 7:18]
Teenager Charged With IM Harassment
News Under the terms of a pretrial probation agreement signed Monday by the unidentified teen and others involved in the case, the resident of North Reading, Massachusetts, risks criminal prosecution if he engages in "unsupervised" use of IM and other...
[May 16, 2002, 10:43]
News Burst: New Date Set For MS-DOJ Trial
News The rescheduling, which came at the request of both sides in the trial, was necessary in large part because of delays from an earlier attempt to settle disputes related to pretrial testimony from Microsoft officials.
[August 21, 1998, 12:43]
Lexmark Wins Injunction In DMCA Case
News Judge Karl Forester of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued the pretrial injunction against Static Control Components, a small Sanford, North Carolina-based company that sells printer parts and other business supplies.
[February 28, 2003, 7:39]
File-trading Future In Hands Of Court
News Both sides are seeking a so-called summary judgment, or pretrial ruling, in their own favour. Attorneys for the record industry and the movie studios sparred with lawyers for file-swapping services Morpheus and Grokster in US federal court on...
[December 3, 2002, 13:33]
US Report: Judge May Delay Start Of Microsoft Trial
News The delay is necessary, they told Jackson in a Thursday conference call, because of the extra preparations necessary to accommodate the press and general public at the pretrial depositions. Lawyers for both the software giant and the U.S.
[August 17, 1998, 7:31]
Court Sides With Good Against RIM
News 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 restraining order against rival Good Technology, which makes software that...
[October 10, 2002, 9:29]
US Report: Judge Opens Gates' Deposition To Public
News We are concerned about the possible ramifications of this decision on our pretrial preparation and moving this trial forward," Cullinan said, adding that the company is particularly worried about protecting confidential information.
[August 12, 1998, 10:16]
IBM Cleared Of Cancer Charges
News We had a truckload of evidence we couldn't deliver," he said, referring in part to pretrial rulings by the judge that excluded an IBM database of employee death records that the plaintiffs claimed showed higher cancer rates than the broader...
[February 27, 2004, 9:15]
US Report: Judge Denies Microsoft Request For Private Depositions
News I don't think there's ever been a First Amendment right to attend pretrial proceedings. The judge overseeing the antitrust suit between government antitrust officials and Microsoft on Wednesday denied further attempts by the software giant to ban...
[August 13, 1998, 10:03]
Intel, FTC Prepare To Square Off
News While both Intel and the FTC have steered clear of using the term, in its pretrial brief, the FTC stated that Intel "controlled basic product information and microprocessor product samples indispensable to .
[March 8, 1999, 11:35]
IBM And SCO Gather Reinforcements
News IBM is not alone in objecting to its adversary's compliance with pretrial discovery requests. Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the SCO Group and IBM, as both companies try to buttress their legal claims by turning to third...
[November 13, 2003, 7:35]
Pop-up Provider Suffers Legal Setback
News A pretrial hearing date is set for 16 January. A US district court judge recently barred WhenU from delivering pop-up advertisements to some Net visitors, going against decisions in favour of the software maker's controversial ad tactics.
[January 6, 2004, 8:35]
Microsoft On Trial: Judge Releases Testimony To Public
News Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson wrote the order to comply with provisions of the Publicity in Taking of Evidence Act of 1913, which requires that depositions taken in Sherman Antitrust Act cases be open to the public.
[April 9, 1999, 15:15]
