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A federal judge agreed to give the FBI a warrant which forces Google to turn over the information stored on an Android smartphone seized by authorities as part of an investigation. The company is willing to oblige. Somewhat similar to the case in which a fraudster was ordered by a court to decrypt a laptop that migh... |
16 March 2012
05:32 GMT |
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Facebook has proved it utility once again, helping authorities solve an unbelievable case of animal cruelty that ended up in court. A judge has decided a woman from Denver is guilty of torturing an killing a rat. Tashaya Abbott will have to take $125 our of her pockets and commit to 50 hours of community service. Tas... |
7 December 2011
11:42 GMT |
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Corn Plus, a farmer-owned company, has to pay for manipulating numbers indicating their overall environmental footprint for 2009. The ethanol manufacturer from Winnebago, Minnesota, assumed its part of the blame and pleaded guilty in court for falsifying information regarding their contribution to air quality degrada... |
28 November 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Sometimes it seems like all those court battles between tech companies just can't be put to rest, a new fight emerging on the consumer electronics front, this time between Foxconn and Creative, the former accusing the Singapore-based company of failing to pay $500,000 for services that Foxconn is said to have pr... |
30 November 2010
04:41 GMT |
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A judge has sentenced 19-year-old singer Chris Brown to five years on probation on the charge of assault in the domestic violence case of assault on former girlfriend Rihanna. He must also stay away from her for the entire duration of the probation, obey all laws and not own any weapons, including guns and knives. Br... |
26 August 2009
03:09 GMT |
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The case of Alexander Draper, the 14-year-old boy who weighs an impressive 555 pounds, has brought a very sensitive issue up for discussion again. His mother, Jerri Gray, was arrested in June and charged with criminal neglect, but that does not stop the question from arising: is she really responsible for the state h... |
23 July 2009
15:31 GMT |
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Madonna might yet get to expand her already large brood by flying to the US Mercy, the little orphan girl from Malawi for whose adoption she initiated papers a while back. If, in April, her request was denied on the grounds that it might encourage child trafficking, The Sun claims she has convinced three of the judge... |
10 June 2009
03:00 GMT |
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That Britney Spears has been burning through her estate, once estimated at well over $90 million, has often made headlines, but specific figures as to her yearly expenditure have never actually been made public. With papers filed with an LA courthouse just recently, it has emerged that in less than a year, Britney sp... |
18 May 2009
05:56 GMT |
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Paris Hilton is again in hot waters, this time with the movie studio that brought investors to one of her most recent flicks, “Pledge This!” Defending herself from the allegations that the movie tanked because she could not be bothered to promote it, Paris, the single busiest person on the face of the pla... |
8 May 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Raymone Bain has seen Michael Jackson through the most challenging moments of his career, including the 2005 abuse allegations and the many trials in the following years, all filed for financial reasons. Bain is, according to a Reuters report, the latest former business associate to turn against the King of Pop for w... |
7 May 2009
08:48 GMT |
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Victoria Principal, star of the ‘70s hit series “Dallas,” is being sued by one of her former maids, whom she allegedly held at gunpoint and threatened to shoot on sight for simply asking for her paycheck. The brawl started over the potty session of Principal’s dog, which was apparently too lon... |
5 May 2009
05:31 GMT |
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Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho, the two plaintiffs who sued CERN to stop inauguration of the Large Hadron Collider, couldn't take “no” for an answer when their first attempt at shutting down the world's best particle accelerator failed, so they decided to take their case to the court of appeals. ... |
6 February 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Recently, a legislator from Nebraska has filed a lawsuit against God, but it was dismissed by the court before it even began since, according to the state laws, a plaintiff must reach the defendant, and there was no address specified. There were quite a few movies on the theme of suing God, and perhaps they hav... |
16 October 2008
03:18 GMT |
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The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled AOL spammer Jeremy Jaynes should go free, after he was convicted in 2004 and sentenced to serve 9 years in a federal prison. The court's decision was not taken because Jeremy Jaynes was actually innocent, as he did send spam e-mails, but because the law under which he was con... |
13 September 2008
07:43 GMT |
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Germany's Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that the authorities wouldn't any longer be at large to collect data from the Internet users' personal computers whenever and however they please. Certain limitations were imposed upon the state-controlled agencies, such as the need for judicial permiss... |
28 February 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Jack Thompson, the anti-game militant, GTA & Co. hater and, according to Fox News, "Campus shooting expert" (which is hilarious, really) is already awaiting a referee's decision regarding his possible disbarment. But things got a bit more complicated, since his friends from the Florida Supreme Court slapped him ... |
25 February 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Sometimes having the legal power to sue anyone, over anything, brings strange ideas, and many lawsuits stand to test that theory. None of which can hold a candle to the suit Google had to go through, believe me on that. It was sued for 'crimes against humanity' by a man named Dylan Stephen Jayne, who observ... |
11 February 2008
14:21 GMT |
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Hate crimes over the Internet are very seldom followed by a court decision in Canada, that's why the ruling yesterday caused a bit of a stir. Discrimination is not new on the web, it has been there when there were only a few sites and it will always be one of the major causes for grief. Moreover, people claiming... |
6 February 2008
06:03 GMT |
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Today is a big day on the Britney front, and we're all wondering whether by the end of the day Brit Brit will still hold a chance (however remote) of ever getting near her kids, or if we'll witness yet another public meltdown, like the one that followed Britney's latest run-in with the law. And yes, fo... |
14 January 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Christmas and the Holidays will come with a bitter taste for Yahoo! China, as it has just lost the suit filed against it by the IFPI, representing companies including Warner Music Group Corp., Sony BMG and Universal Vivendi, for violating copyrights because of links between its search engine and Web sites with 229 il... |
21 December 2007
13:16 GMT |
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I've been told an interesting story under the QT once, about the fact that we're still using DVDs because most of the porn that is for sale at the moment, on the internet, is available on them, and that when the big boys decide that they feel like moving to the next largest storage capacity medium, the who... |
5 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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Eddie Murphy and Melanie Brown from the Spice Girls have been involved for a couple of months, from July to December last year. Their brief affair resulted in a tiny bundle of joy, that Mel later called Angel Iris. But Angel is also the reason of discontent among the two former lovers: after a paternity test establis... |
15 August 2007
08:21 GMT |
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Two teenagers from Hastings were sent to the judge after a video showing them assaulting a third teen was posted on YouTube. It seems like the two attackers are brothers and were sent to the Hastings Youth Court for attacking a person in one of the city's parks. According to Newstalk ZB, the two brothers were re... |
2 May 2007
14:56 GMT |
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