Recent Updates
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ACLU Demands Info On DHS Computer Searches At Borders
Headline Legal News 08/28/2009According to Courthouse News, the ACLU demands information on the Department of Homeland Security's policy on searching laptop computers at international borders. The DHS' Customs and Border Protection office announced in July that it can search elec...
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Veteran Says Mercenaries Shot Him In Iraq
Headline Legal News 08/27/2009Courthouse News reports that civilian security contractors in Iraq shot and permanently disabled a US Special Forces sergeant as he returned to Baghdad International Airport after an intelligence mission, the veteran claims in Federal Court. Sgt. Kha...
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Former Prof Arrested, Accused of Taking 2 Guns Into Law Library
Headline Legal News 08/26/2009According to the ABA Journal, a former adjunct faculty member at the University of Louisville's law school was arrested Friday after allegedly bringing two handguns and 53 rounds of ammunition into the law school library around 8:30 a.m. Police were ...
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Former Stanford Investment Advisers Push to Get Assets Unfrozen
Headline Legal News 08/26/2009The Fulton County Daily Reports states that when Stanford International Bank, the financial institution founded by larger-than-life Texan R. Allen Stanford, imploded earlier this year after the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the bank of f...
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Class Claims Facebook Invades Privacy, Sells Personal Information
Headline Legal News 08/25/2009Facebook invades the privacy of its customers and misappropriates people's images and personal information for marketing and commercial purposes, a class action claims in Orange County Court, Calif. The class claims Facebook's "unconscionable" terms ...
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Newly Released Documents Show Rehnquist's Private Side
Headline Legal News 08/24/2009The National Law Journal reports that in the dark days after he announced that he was suffering from thyroid cancer in late October 2004, Chief Justice William Rehnquist's in-box filled up with anxious notes from his colleagues. "Top priority at Cour...
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Asbestos Tests Must Continue
Headline Legal News 08/19/2009Courthouse News reports that air tests for asbestos-like fibers must continue at a Minnesota mining plant because a 1975 order to do so has been folded into the state's environmental laws, the 8th Circuit ruled. Northshore Mining Co., a taconite proc...
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Bogus 'Emergency' In Forest, Groups Say
Headline Legal News 08/17/2009Courthouse News reports that the US Forest Service declared a bogus "emergency situation" to push through a salvage timber sale in Northern California's Klamath National Forest, three environmental groups say in Federal Court. The Forest Service can ...
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Texas Judge Orders Microsoft To Stop Selling Word In The US
Headline Legal News 08/13/2009Courthouse News reports a federal judge in Texas fined Microsoft $290 million and ordered it to stop selling Word in the United States, because the word-processing software violates a patent held by a small company called i4i. Toronto-based i4i, whic...
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Top Madoff Aid Pleads Guilty
Headline Legal News 08/12/2009According to the New York Law Journal, Bernard L. Madoff's right-hand man pleaded guilty Tuesday and is cooperating in the government's investigation into the largest Ponzi scheme in history. Frank DiPascali Jr. waived indictment and entered guilty p...
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Suspended Boston Cop Sues City
Headline Legal News 08/06/2009Courthouse News reports that a Boston police officer who called Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. a "banana-eating jungle monkey" in an email he sent to a Boston Globe columnist says the city and its police commissioner violated his rights by s...
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11-Word Press Snippets Might Violate Copyright
Headline Legal News 07/30/2009According to Courthouse News, a Danish press-clipping company could be violating copyright by printing out 11-word snippets of news articles, the European Court of Justice ruled. The Luxembourg-based court remanded the issue to Denmark for a determin...