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Google has unveiled it’s new, copyright-protected YouTube. But is the new technology enough to prompt Viacom to drop its copyright claim. When the lawsuit was first filed, pundits observed that the lawsuit was a negotiating tactic to force concessions of some sort from Google.

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Seven months ago, Viacom filed a copyright infringement lawsuit demanding $1 billion from Google and YouTube and charging the companies with “brazen disregard” for intellectual property laws and threatening “the economic underpinnings of one of the most important sectors of the United States economy.” On Tuesday, YouTube finally launched a content identification system, YouTube Video […]

Google has unveiled it’s new, copyright-protected YouTube. But is the new technology enough to prompt Viacom to drop its copyright claim. When the lawsuit was first filed, pundits observed that the lawsuit was a negotiating tactic to force concessions of some sort from Google. Read More »

Sen. Larry Craig has opened a new round in his legal battle stemming from his airport restroom arrest, appealing a judge’s refusal to let him to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct.

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Sen. Larry Craig has opened a new round in his legal battle stemming from his airport restroom arrest, appealing a judge’s refusal to let him to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct. Craig’s appeal was filed Monday at the Minnesota Court of Appeals, less than two weeks after Hennepin County District Court Judge Charles

Sen. Larry Craig has opened a new round in his legal battle stemming from his airport restroom arrest, appealing a judge’s refusal to let him to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct. Read More »

Government figures released in the UK show one tiny firm of lawyers has received £123 million from the taxpayer by winning compensation claims for coal miners.

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Beresfords, a tiny firm of solicitors in Doncaster, has received £123m from the taxpayer by winning compensation claims on behalf of coal miners for work-related diseases, new government figures show. The head of the firm, Jim Beresford, had a personal salary of £16.7m in 2006 and two partners – one of whom was his daughter

Government figures released in the UK show one tiny firm of lawyers has received £123 million from the taxpayer by winning compensation claims for coal miners. Read More »

Newly unsealed court findings show phone company Qwest Communications refused a proposal from the National Security Agency that the company’s lawyers considered illegal in February 2001, nearly seven months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.

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The phone company Qwest Communications refused a proposal from the National Security Agency that the company’s lawyers considered illegal in February 2001, nearly seven months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, the former head of the company contends in newly unsealed court filings. The executive, Joseph P. Nacchio, also asserts in the filings that

Newly unsealed court findings show phone company Qwest Communications refused a proposal from the National Security Agency that the company’s lawyers considered illegal in February 2001, nearly seven months before the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11. Read More »

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered an indefinite delay yesterday of a central measure of the Bush administration’s new strategy to curb illegal immigration.

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A federal judge in San Francisco ordered an indefinite delay yesterday of a central measure of the Bush administration’s new strategy to curb illegal immigration. The judge, Charles R. Breyer of the Northern District of California, said the government had failed to follow proper procedures for issuing a new rule that would have forced employers

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered an indefinite delay yesterday of a central measure of the Bush administration’s new strategy to curb illegal immigration. Read More »

A class-action lawsuit targeting Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc., filed last week in federal court, accuses the companies of illegally conspiring to tie iPhone customers to the telecommunications company’s wireless network.

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A class-action lawsuit targeting Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc., filed last week in federal court, accuses the companies of illegally conspiring to tie iPhone customers to the telecommunications company’s wireless network. The lawsuit, which was filed in court in San Francisco the same day another was filed in a Sacramento state court, slaps the two

A class-action lawsuit targeting Apple Inc. and AT&T Inc., filed last week in federal court, accuses the companies of illegally conspiring to tie iPhone customers to the telecommunications company’s wireless network. Read More »

Close-up photographs of Diana, the Princess of Wales, taken by the paparazzi as she lay fatally injured in the wreckage of the Mercedes, were released to jurors at her inquest today.

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Close-up photographs of Diana, the Princess of Wales, taken by the paparazzi as she lay fatally injured in the wreckage of the Mercedes, were released to jurors at her inquest today. The pictures were partially pixelated but her blonde hair and the side of her face could still be made out. One, by photographer Laslo

Close-up photographs of Diana, the Princess of Wales, taken by the paparazzi as she lay fatally injured in the wreckage of the Mercedes, were released to jurors at her inquest today. Read More »

London-based Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won its high-profile age discrimination battle against former partner Peter Bloxham, it was announced Wednesday.

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won its high-profile age discrimination battle against former partner Peter Bloxham, it was announced Wednesday. The Central London Employment Tribunal ruled unanimously in favor of Freshfields over Bloxham’s claim regarding a change in the firm’s pension scheme. It found that Freshfields had been discriminatory on the grounds of age when the

London-based Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won its high-profile age discrimination battle against former partner Peter Bloxham, it was announced Wednesday. Read More »

Steven Schulman, a former partner in the firm now known as Milberg Weiss, which made an estimated $250 million by filing class-action lawsuits against some of America’s largest corporations pleaded guilty Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge.

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A former partner with a prestigious New York law firm that made an estimated $250 million by filing class-action lawsuits against some of America’s largest corporations pleaded guilty Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge. Steven G. Schulman was charged in Los Angeles as part of a seven-year investigation into allegations that kickbacks were paid to

Steven Schulman, a former partner in the firm now known as Milberg Weiss, which made an estimated $250 million by filing class-action lawsuits against some of America’s largest corporations pleaded guilty Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge. Read More »

European business faces huge bills under plans to grant individuals US-style rights to sue for damages over defective products or price fixing, German industry warns on Tuesday.

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European business faces huge bills under plans to grant individuals US-style rights to sue for damages over defective products or price fixing, German industry warns on Tuesday. The BDI, the German employers’ association, and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, the law firm, will unveil a report arguing that the European Commission proposals would be costly and unnecessary.

European business faces huge bills under plans to grant individuals US-style rights to sue for damages over defective products or price fixing, German industry warns on Tuesday. Read More »

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