Items tagged with judge

by Shawn Oliver - Mon, Dec 14, 2009

Florida Judges Can't Facebook Friend Lawyers: That's The Law!

Uh, this is weird. If you're a judge and/or lawyer in Florida, you should probably go through and clean house on your Facebook account. If you're a judge, you're now disallowed from "friending" lawyers for fear of having some sort of bias when or if that lawyer steps into your courtroom. No, we aren't kidding.The... Read more...

by Gregory Sullivan - Wed, May 14, 2008

Judge Prepares Dish of Creamed Spam

It's a good day whenever something bad happens to a spammer. That makes today a beautiful day, as a judge in Los Angeles has ruled in MySpace's favor in a suit they brought against two spammers who ran amok on MySpace pages. The damages awarded were worthy of a deposed Nigerian dictator: $230 million dollars.U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Sat, Dec 15, 2007

Judge: PGP Passphrase is Private

A judge has ruled that a defendent cannot be forced to give up the passphrase for his encrypted hard drive. Without this passphrase, authorities aren't able to decrypt his drive. Now we know why U.K. authorities were asking for a backdoor into Bitlocker-encrypted Windows Vista PCs last year, right?U.S. Magistrate Judge Jerome Niedermeier... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Thu, Aug 09, 2007

Judge: 'Windows Vista Capable' Suit Can Proceed

Way back in April, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, alleging that Microsoft used deceptive marketing practices when it allowed computer and other hardware makers to use the term "Windows Vista Capable" on their items, when in fact the hardware was unusable with Vista. The suit really centers around personal computers labeled... Read more...

by Matt Beauvais - Tue, Dec 19, 2006

Judge Stops Spammer From Selling e-mail Lists

A U.K. court has ruled that Paul Martin McDonald can no longer sell lists of Hotmail addresses. McDonald had been selling the addresses through his company Bizads, and Microsoft claimed that his actions have damaged the reputation of Microsoft's e-mail service, which the court seemed to agree with. Bizads claimed that those who were on... Read more...

by Sandy Drew - Wed, Sep 27, 2006

Judge tosses part of AMD suit against Intel

A federal judge has dismissed part of AMD's suit against Intel on the basis that it does not meet the anticompetative claims made. In June of 2005 AMD filed a 48 page complaint against Intel alleging the company was engaging in monopolistic behavior by forcing companies (38 different ones cited) into using their chips thus... Read more...