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• Great Moments in False Advertising

  
  Today's Top Voted Bookmarks — Authority: 149
  Great Moments in False Advertising False Advertising Upsets Me - Be it a purported discount price or a lab coat-clad actor in the commercial giving his "professional" opinion, false http://www.minyanville.com/slideshow/index.htm?previ...
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• LGJ: Gamings professional plaintiffs and class actions

  
  Law of the Game — Authority:
  This weeks LGJ explores the idea of professional plaintiffs in gaming and class action lawsuits. Read on! DisclaimerThe content of this blog is not legal advice. It only constitutes commentary on legal issues, and is for educational and informational purposes only. Reading this blog, replying to its posts, or ...
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• Global Geek News Podcast #45

  
  Global Geek News — Authority: 110
  &t; html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?8:26981) no-repeat top left; } Share on Facebook Here are the shownotes for episode #45 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Global Geek News #45 Podcast Feed: ...
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• Lawyers Gone Bad: Gene Cauley Gets 7 Years in Prison

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Steven Eugene “Gene” Cauley, an Arkansas lawyer who pleaded guilty to stealing $9.3 million from an escrow fund containing proceeds from a class-action settlement, just was sentenced to 86 months in prison. * * * The money in question came from the settlement of a class-action suit against Bisys Group that was ...
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• If You’re an Inhabitant of the Planet Earth, A Lawsuit May Affect Your Rights

  
  ClassActionBlawg.com — Authority: 410
  Science editor Mark Henderson has a story on the Times Online’s blog Eureka about what could be the largest representative action ever filed in the history of the world.  The complaint, filed with the UN Human Rights Committee , seeks to save every inhabitant of the planet (and perhaps the entire solar ...
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• Gene Cauley gets seven years

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 620
  The Arkansas plaintiff’s lawyer says he was too embarrassed to make layoffs as his finances turned sour, which is why he stole the $9.3 million in class-action settlement funds [ WSJ Law Blog , ABA Journal ] Earlier here , here , and here . Tags: Arkansas , class action settlements , scandals Related posts ...
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• LGJ: Gamings professional plaintiffs and class actions

  
  Joystiq — Authority: 797
  Mark Methenitis contributes Law of the Game on Joystiq ("LGJ"), a column on legal issues as they relate to video games : [ Maveric2003 ] The term "professional plaintiff" is thrown out at the idea that some people make their living as someone who partners with an attorney to bring so many lawsuits that their ...
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• JP Morgan Chase says “goodbye” to

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 529
  JPMorgan Chase has decided to drop a clause from the credit card contracts that it has members sign when they sign up for cards. The clause is the highly disputed mandatory arbitration clause. So, why exactly are arbitration agreements bad? Arbitration can (and often does) give the company the ability to really mess ...
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• Microsoft Not Worried About Xbox Lawsuit

  
  Gadget News and Reviews — Authority: 165
  If there were about 1 million angry gamers who might want to sue you, most folks would be running and screaming for their mommy, but not Microsoft. Despite the possibility of facing a class-action lawsuit, a Redmond spokesperson has stressed that Microsoft is well within its legal rights to ban users from the Xbox ...
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• Microsoft responds to Xbox Live ban class-action lawsuit

  
  GAMER.BLORGE — Authority: 479
  Microsoft recently banned between 600,000 and one million gamers from Xbox Live after they were found to have modified their systems or played pirated games on them. Then a U.S. law firm decided to launch a class-action lawsuit over the bannings. As they always do. And now Microsoft has responded to the ...
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• Xboxes For Sale May Be Tainted – Caveat Emptor

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 592
  After hearing my son speak of many Xboxes showing up on Craigslist as “new In box” I started looking around on other places where things are sold, only to find similar results. This might be not that unusual for this time of year, with Christmas approaching, and the economy down, but I was still a bit spooked by ...
  5 days ago

• Don’t Buy That Cheap XBOX 360… It Might Be Banned

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 437
  In the last couple of days, I’ve had three or four of my friends call me and ask if I knew anybody that was looking for a Microsoft XBOX 360 and they all were selling them cheaply. Just over a week, Microsoft banned 1 million XBOX Live Players [Article: CNN ] and those machines cannot rejoin the XBOX Live network, ...
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• Recent XBox Bans Not Actually A Million; Lawsuit Possible Anyway

  
  GayGamer.net — Authority: 554
  Theres been some talk in the past week about a pretty staggering number: one million XBox 360 units banned from XBox Live on account of being modified - presumably, of course, to circumvent those pesky new game prices with the magic of Bittorrent. Not that it ever sounded very wise to tamper with a closed, ...
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• Report: Rushcard Prepaid Visa

  
  THEBLACKURBANTIMES.COM — Authority: 458
  Recently many people have been complaining about the "Rush Card" which was introduced by Russell Simmons. What the card does is allow people who do not have bank accounts to use this card as a portable bank account tied to a card they can use at retailers to pay for goods and services. It charges a fee to use the card ...
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• Angry Xbox Modders Join Together in Class Action Lawsuit

  
  ModCool — Authority: 160
  Up to 1 million Xbox modders were pretty pissed to find that they had been banned from Xbox Live following the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the biggest launch in entertainment history. The mass ban was intended to prevent pirated copies of the highly anticipated game from spreading, a notion ...
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• Effective Security Policy Messaging Important

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 149
  Clearly communicate that, in fact, there are secrets. read more
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• Banned Xbox modders get a class-action lawsuit to call their own

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  You had to know someone out there would try and profit off Microsoft’s recent mass bannination of modded Xbox 360 consoles from Xbox Live, and although the eBay scammers arguably got there first, we’re awarding the style trophy to AbingtonIP, an Oklahoma law firm that’s trying to gin up a class-action lawsuit. ...
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• Banned Xbox modders get a class-action lawsuit to call their own

  
  Engadget — Authority: 871
  You had to know someone out there would try and profit off Microsofts recent mass bannination of modded Xbox 360 consoles from Xbox Live, and although the eBay scammers arguably got there first, were awarding the style trophy to AbingtonIP, an Oklahoma law firm thats trying to gin up a class-action lawsuit. Why? ...
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• Sony Ericsson Pureness hands-on: Pacman edition

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  We’ve seen it out and about, but at last we got a chance to actually play with Sony Ericsson’s tribute to impractical style: the Pureness . As it turns out, using the device is just about as pointless as it seems. You can always just barely make out what’s happening on the semi-translucent monochrome screen, and ...
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• XOR’s X02 Urban Transformer is more Vespa than Wheeljack

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  We can’t all be a Witwicky, owning a badass robot able to change from sportscar to hulking humanoid. Some of us have to aim a little lower; enter the XOR X02 Urban Transporter. It’s an electric scooter that can fold into a little cube for easy storage (shown after the break) and attaches to a luggage cart to be ...
  6 days ago

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