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Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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An 89-year-old Cincinnati area woman famously arrested for holding on to a neighbor kid's football is now suing the boy's parents. The lawsuit filed by Edna Jester's attorney in Hamilton County Common Pleas Court claims she has suffered emotional distress because the next-door family's footballs and other playthings keep landing in her yard.
Brushing aside the objections of Democratic leaders, embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich selected former state attorney general Roland W. Burris yesterday to take the Senate seat previously held by President-elect Barack Obama, setting up a potential constitutional showdown.
The court found that it was cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a defendant to 28 years to life for merely failing to timely update his address pursuant to a previous conviction's registration requirements.
A D.C. Lobbyist sued The New York Times for $27 million Tuesday over an article that she says gave the false impression she had an affair with Sen. John McCain. The suit claims that, as a result of the article, Vicki Iseman suffered an "avalanche of scorn, derision, and ridicule" that damaged her health. A law professor said the key to Iseman's case will be whether the court defines her as a public or private figure.
Chilean lawyer Guillermo Frne is having a bit of a bad hair day after it was revealed that draft legislation aimed at cutting the internet connections of illegal downloading ne'er-do-wells was presented in .doc format written on pirated software.
Oracle, Apple, Yahoo, Intel and several others are throwing their weight behind Microsoft as it tries to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a $500 million jury verdict for infringing on a Lucent patent. In amicus briefs filed this month, the tech companies are urging the court to rein in the "entire market value rule, " which allows the calculation of damages based on the whole product, even if just one feature is infringed.
Blagojevich's attorney offered a report by Obama's team to bolster his case that there's insufficient evidence to impeach the Illinois governor.
The judge overseeing the RIAA case against Jammie Thomas has refused to allow the music industry to appeal his order; the RIAA will instead need to go through a complete new trial before an appeal is possible.
Professor Charles Nesson and his team of Harvard Law students filed a motion to broadcast courtroom coverage of the trial on the Internet, which is traditionally prohibited. Nesson is defending Joel Tenenbaum, who has been sued by the RIAA for $1,050,000 for allegedly making available 7 songs in a shared folder when he was 17 years old.
A jury found the men guilty of plotting an attack at the base in New Jersey, but acquitted them of attempted murder charges.
Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attorney attacked impeachment proceedings as "unfair and quite frankly illegal," in a clear signal that the Illinois governor, charged by federal prosecutors with public corruption, will not leave office without a fight.
The California attorney general said that the measure that banned same-sex marriage was constitutionally indefensible and should be overturned.
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