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• in Business
  Subway's Angry Inch
  More lawsuits pile on in angry response to Subway's lost inch on its "foot long" sandwiches. How they should respond.
  by dopodomani / on Jan 25, 2013
• in Film
  Hot Coffee Blows the Cap Off Tort Reform
  HOT COFFEE is an eye-opening look at the co-opting of our Civil Justice system.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 31, 2011
• in Technology
  Apple and Developers Sued Over Alleged 'Spying' Apps
  Two lawsuits hit Apple for allowing advertisers to access personal information via iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch apps.
  by bastetmax / on Dec 28, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “lawsuits”

 

• NRG Assets: From Our Case Files

  
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  On behalf of our client, Lemberg & Associates recently filed a complaint in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, against NRG Assets. Our client alleges that NRG Assets began to make phone calls to both her home telephone and place of employment in an attempt to collect a $700 debt. She told the ...
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• Former Staffers: Bank Of America Rewarded Us For Lying To Homeowners, Losing Paperwork, Denying Modifications

  
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  ( Ms. Marco ) In sworn statements provided for a lawsuit by homeowners against Bank of America, a half-dozen people who reviewed loan modification applications for BofA say the company encouraged staffers to lose applicants paperwork so that it could later be denied, putting homeowners at further risk of losing their ...
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• U.S. Patent Office Says Apples Rubber Banding Patent Claim Is Valid

  
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  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office returned a power weapon to Apple’s patent arsenal this week, reversing an April ruling that invalidated key claims of the company’s bounce-back or “rubber banding” patent . The patent, which describes among other things the over-scroll bounce iOS performs when it ...
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• Warner Chappell faces unhappy returns

  
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  Warner Chappell has had a nice little business going over the last few years, collecting money from the rights it owned to the song Happy Birthday. Even Nancy Reagan singing it to Ronnie once got a terse demand for cash dispatched to broadcasting networks. Except... maybe they dont own the rights at all. Filmaker ...
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• CART in the news (1): Environmental issues and civil rights abuses.

  
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  Actually, the asphalt expansion plan set forth by the oligarch apologists serving on the late, unlamented Bridges Junta discriminates not only against "poor minorities," but additionally burdens any resident of the metropolitan area seeking alternatives to the hegemony of the automobile. Quixotic, or potential ...
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• Facebook Claims Conflict Of Interest, Seeks Dismissal Of Derivative Lawsuit

  
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  Can the same law firm unsuccessfully bid to lead a class-action suit against a company, and then file a related derivative lawsuit against the same company? Facebook says no, requesting in a filing with Delaware’s Court of Chancery that the derivative suit filed by Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd be thrown out ...
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• Killing Gene Patents Could Revitalize Biotech

  
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  Wall Street is rejoicing over a decision that on the surface seems to strip many biotech companies of their most valuable asset.        
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• Helping a Client with GC Services

  
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  On behalf of our client, Lemberg & Associates recently filed a complaint in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas, against GC Services . Our client alleges that during his first communication with GC Services, the representative asked him to verify his identity. Once he did, they requested his social ...
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• Public Birthdays May Soon Get Less Creative

  
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  Part of the fun of watching a birthday scene on television is in hearing the always-awkward replacement for the Happy Birthday song, which has been necessary for years because the traditional number is copyrighted. That may change soon, as a class-action suit started by a filmmaker doing a documentary on ... ...
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• Who owns “Happy Birthday to You”? Lawsuit says we all do.

  
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  As librarians, we find copyright law pretty interesting. Every day we deal with questions of the legality of lending, sharing, copying, and performing various types of material. One of the most commonly cited ideas about copyright is that a company, Warner/Chappell Music, owns the rights to one of the most commonly ...
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• "It may be the worlds most popular song, but to perform it on TV and in movies requires a license fee."

  
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  "A new class action lawsuit aims to change that." ADDED: The point isnt that its so popular , it should be in the public domain. Its that its so old .
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• I’d Like A Refund, Please

  
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  ericpetersautos.com / by eric / June 13, 2013 You’ve heard about “class action” lawsuits. A group of people who’ve all suffered a common harm at the hands of a single offender get together and sue  jointly  for damages. I think all the people who were victimized for the 20 years the 55 MPH National ...
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• Apple’s key ‘rubber banding’ patent validated by US Patent Office

  
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  Apple’s ‘rubber banding’ patent has been under heavy scrutiny in recent months, invalidated twice by the US Patent Office. It used the patent, which pertains to a software feature that allows content to ‘bounce back’ during scrolling, in its big $1 billion victory over Samsung. But good news today for ...
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• Black Swan interns win lawsuit, Condé Nast gets sued next

  
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  What interns do, according to Shutterstock. You might remember that back in 2011, a pair of former interns who worked on Black Swan sued Fox Searchlight for back pay because they worked for free and the internship didn’t really teach them anything. It’s a tough case, because on the one hand, companies using ...
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• Apple Exec: I Protected Consumers From High E-Book Prices By Letting Publishers Set High E-Book Prices

  
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  ( egoitz moreno ) Earlier today, Apple executive Eddy Cue — the architect of the company’s iTunes and e-book business — took the stand in court to face questions about his company’s role in alleged price-fixing of the e-book market, where he admitted that Apple had actually mulled over an even worse idea than ...
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• 10 Most Frivolous Lawsuits Filed Against Rappers

  
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  In the immortal words of NFL great Dion Sanders, “Must be the money.” There’s plenty of money floating around in the world of entertainment, so…
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• At Trial, Apple Exec Eddie Cue Says Company Didn’t Fix E-Book Prices

  
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  NEW YORK (AP) — A top Apple Inc. executive described as Steve Jobs’ right-hand man took the witness stand at a Manhattan price-fixing trial and denied scheming with major book publishers to drive up the cost of electronic books. Eddy Cue was questioned about meetings he had in 2009 with chief executives of ...
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• Duke Nukem Creators 3D Realms Suing Gearbox over Unpaid Royalties

  
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  Apogee Software/3D Realms—the studio that spent more than a decade working on Duke Nukem Forever —is suing Gearbox Software, the company that bought that game’s rights and released the long-brewing sequel in 2011. Apogee/3D Realms alleges that Gearbox has refused to pay more than $2 million owed to 3D Realms ...
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• Lawsuit: Amelia Earharts plane found in 2010, discovery concealed

  
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  The group conducting a search for Amelia Earharts plane strongly denied charges they had found the aircraft in 2010 and hid it from donors. Timothy Mellon, the son of philanthropist Paul Mellon and a major contributor to The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery sued the group on June 3, alleging TIGHAR ...
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• NEW YORK CITY: Gay Activist Wins $3.5M Molestation Lawsuit Against His Cousin

  
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  The Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday awarded $3.5M to activist Chaim Levin, who sued his cousin for childhood sexual abuse. Levin is also a plaintiff in the Southern Poverty Law Centers pending lawsuit against JONAH, a New Jersey-based Jewish "ex-gay" organization. The New York Daily News reports on yesterdays ...
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