Lawsuits

The Department of Justice is now looking into Google’s proposed settlement over its Book Search service, sources tell both The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal . The inquiry is said to be focused on antitrust concerns surrounding the online book deal. The Book Search settlement, announced in October, followed a three-year...
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The men behind Pirate Bay were found guilty on being accessories to violating the copyright law by a Swedish Court. They were sentenced to one year in jail and a fine of $3.6 million dollars. Unlike the case of Napster, The Pirate bay doesn’t actually host the copyrighted files, it simply allows users to...
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SYDNEY – A SINGAPORE-OWNED energy delivery company is facing a class action suit over allegations that one of its power lines sparked last week’s deadly Australian bush fires which broke out in the Kinglake area of Victoria state. Residents there are launching legal proceedings against SP AusNet over a fallen power line which is...
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A woman crowned Miss California 2008, only to be stripped of her title four days later because of a mistake in tabulating votes, has asked that her case be dismissed. Christina Silva filed suit last April 10 in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleging negligence, fraudulent concealment and misrepresentation, false advertising and intentional infliction of...
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A Thai court sentenced an Australian man to three years in prison for insulting head of state King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his heir in an obscure 2005 book that sold seven copies. Harry Nicolaides, 41, had a six-year sentence cut in half after he plead guilty to defaming the king and his son, the...
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Coca-Cola Co. (KO) faces a purported class-action lawsuit initiated by a consumer-advocacy group and other litigants, who say that the beverage giant made deceptive claims about its line of VitaminWater beverages. The consumer group, called the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said its litigation department is serving as co-counsel in the suit,...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether a public school violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old student by conducting a strip search of her for ibuprofen. The school argued in its appeal that the Constitution allowed a strip search of a student suspected of having prescription-strength ibuprofen...
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