Tag: LAWSUITS

An NBA referee has filed a defamation lawsuit against an Associated Press reporter over an accusation the reporter made on Twitter. During a Minnesota Timberwolves vs. Houston Rockets game on January 24th, AP writer Jon Krawczynski wrote, "Ref Bill Spooner told Rambis he'd 'get it back' after a bad call. Then he made an even worse call on Rockets. That's NBA officiating folks." Rambis is the ...

In April, we told you about the unfortunate plight of Justin Kurtz, a 21-year-old college student who found himself battling defamation charges after creating a group on Facebook to publicize his dissatisfaction with a local towing company. Not long after its birth, the group began growing, with many Kalamazoo, Michigan locals flocking to the forum in order to air their own grievances with the ...

In March, 'The Hurt Locker' became the lowest-grossing film to take home Best Picture honors at the Oscars. A few months later, in an apparent attempt to shore up their balance sheet, the producers behind the film promised to file as many as tens of thousands of lawsuits against people accused of illegally downloading the movie. Now, Voltage Pictures has finally provided a little bite to back up ...

After using her BlackBerry to get walking directions from her Google Maps app, Lauren Rosenburg, of Park City, Utah, found herself at the edge of a busy highway. She decided to cross it (since Google told her to), and, as you'd imagine, wasted no time in getting hit by a car. Now, she's asking Google to pay up for giving her dangerous directions. As Fortune reports, Rosenburg has filed a ...

On the behalf of a North Mississippi middle school student, the ACLU and its Mississippi chapter have filed suit against Southaven Middle School, claiming that administrators wrongfully expelled the boy after illegally searching his cell phone. According to Cellular-News, 12-year-old Richard Wade's cell phone was confiscated after he was caught reading a text message. But rather than giving ...

If you're a fan of all things Apple, a lover of Cupertino's best products, a devotee of the original brick of an iPod to the latest iPhone 3G S, you might think that working at Apple would be a dream come true. You might want to think again. Former employee Kenyon Zahner and a team of others are all suing for unpaid overtime, according to Apple Insider. Zahner, along with his collection of ...

In yet another piece of news set to clarify the fact that the record industry still has its head lodged firmly up its own ass, a federal jury on has ordered a Boston University grad student to pay $675,000 to four record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music online. Even more absurd is the number of songs he "stole": 30. The student, Joel Tenenbaum, is being asked to effectively ...

High-end jeweler Cartier garnered itself a bit of (perhaps unwanted) attention this past weekend when it filed a trademark infringement suit regarding a small time iPhone app developer -- Digitopolis Game Studio. The company created a pair of apps, called Fake Watch and Fake Watch Gold Edition, which featured recreations of Cartier's "Tank" watch. Oddly enough, Cartier didn't sue Digitopolis, but ...

Despite the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) promise to Congress in August 2008 that it would not start any new file-sharing lawsuits, the music industry lobby filed at least three new cases in April. It's not really a good idea to lie to Congress, so the RIAA is claiming that these new cases are actually settlements of existing cases. Basically, the RIAA has a number of ...

EA Sports has dominated the sports-related gaming market since the early '90s, thanks to huge franchises like 'Madden NFL' football (which debuted in 1988) and 'NCAA Football' (started in 1993). Now, according to Joystiq, the company's two marquee titles are bringing it a little unwelcome criticism and two massive lawsuits. The NFL lawsuit seems reasonable: A group of 2,062 former players -- who ...

'Second Life' has reached another virtual milestone -- it's being sued by Taser, the world's largest manufacturer of stun guns, for trademark infringement. 'Second Life,' run by Linden Research Inc., is a virtual online community of users that use avatars to 'live' and 'work' within a user-generated world. According to Bloomberg, Taser is claiming trademark infringement, since users can buy ...

No stranger to lawsuits, Google has faced any number of accusations, from misappropriating trade secrets to invading people's privacy with its Street View application. Well, according to MediaPost.com, the litigious mother of an Olympic athlete decided to file suit against Google last week because of allegedly defamatory comments posted through Google's Blogger service. The comments, ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Elan_sues_Apple_for_multitouch_patent_infringement'; Remember all the fun everyone had watching Palm and Apple's legal wordplay regarding multitouch patents? If you missed it, Apple delivered a very thinly veiled threat to Palm, flouting how it had touch-sensitive intellectual rights up the wazoo to protect itself from the competition. Apple, though, may be ...

In case anyone, even after all the related firings and arrests, is still confused about whether or not their Facebook/MySpace/Twitter comments are protected by privacy acts, a Fresno-based California appellate court clarified the issue last week, the Recorder/Law.com tells us. The court case focused on Cynthia Moreno, a University of California at Berkeley student who, back in 2006, posted an ...

Have you ever given someone or some business a bad review online? Well, you'd better keep what you write in check, or else you could end up getting sued like the California couple who bashed a dentist on Yelp. Dr. Yvonne Wong, the dentist, is going forward with a lawsuit against Tai Jing and Jia Ma for libel and emotional distress after a court ruled that she had enough grounds for a case, or, ...