Timothy Leonard Gordon Farmer, a 31 year old man from Australia has been sentenced to 10 years in jail after he was found guilty of bashing a 3 year old baby boy, Mason James Coughlan, to death in 2006.
The supreme court judge described injuries to the child as “almost beyond belief”.
31 year old beats 3 year old to death: worst case of abuse
June 10th, 2008 by Kiyani
Dell guilty of fraud and false advertising: New York Court
May 29th, 2008 by Kiyani
New York State Supreme Court Justice Joseph C. Teresi has found Dell guilty of false advertising and fraud.
Last year, the Attorney General of New York instigated a lawsuit against Dell for practices like long hold times, repeated call transfers, and disconnects for customers waiting for phone support — all of which make it harder to […]
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Music piracy lands 25 year old New Yorker in jail
May 28th, 2008 by Kiyani
First it was TorrentSpy and now this.
A US court has convicted Barry Gitarts, from Brooklyn, New York of music piracy who now faces a fine of $250,000 and five years in jail. He is 25 years old.
Court orders closure of illegal online pharmacy
May 27th, 2008 by Kiyani
From now on you will get one less email about narcotic drugs.
Jorge Alan Rodriguez Sanchez, 32, the owner of an online pharmacy store has been indicted by a US court on charges of distributing controlled substances.
Does paper money discriminate against blind people?
May 21st, 2008 by Kiyani
If you think so then you are right!
According to a ruling by U.S. appeals court paper money currently used in USA does discriminate against blind and visually impaired people.
Court orders Nintendo to pay $21 million for patent infringement
May 15th, 2008 by Kiyani
A federal court has ordered Nintendo of America to pay $21 million in fine to Anascape Ltd. for patent infringement related to the Wii and GameCube video game hardware.
The Anascape Ltd. filed lawsuit in 2006 claiming that Nintendo’s use of analog technology in their remote game controllers constitutes a violation of their patents. Microsoft is […]
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Court orders TorrentSpy to pay $100 million to studios
May 7th, 2008 by Kiyani
California federal judge Florence-Marie Cooper has ordered TorrentSpy to pay some $110 million in damages for infringing the copyright of thousands of films and TV shows through its BitTorrent search engine.
This is a major win for Hollywood studios who are fighting torrents since long.
Google Viacom to battle in Supreme Court over YoutTube
May 7th, 2008 by Kiyani
Google in a statement has said it is willing to fight Viacom all the way to the Supreme Court in the companies’ legal battle over YouTube and pirated videos.
Viacom is taking a different approach by using a hard line of its own, executives from the companies said Wednesday.
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Uma Thurman Testifies on Stalker ‘Nightmare’
May 1st, 2008 by Kiyani
Hollywood actress Uma Thurman testified on Jack Jordan ‘a stalker’ in Manhattan State Supreme Court midday on Thursday.
Thurman, not wearing makeup and at times her hands shaking, recounted her reaction when the accused delivered a card bearing a picture of an open grave and a man standing on the edge of a razor blade.
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Federal court orders AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo to pay ASCAP
May 1st, 2008 by Kiyani
NEW YORK: A federal district court in New York ruled Thursday that online media service providers AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo must pay a reasonable fees to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) for the music streamed and distributed on their sites.
Currently these companies don’t pay any dividends to ASCAP which will be […]
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