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April 2006
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Law Firm Reaps $200 Million in Blackberry windfall |
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Link: http://www.lawfuel.com/index.php?page=newsarticleid=2022
From: http://www.lawfuel.com
Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP wisely took NTP's Blackberry case against Research In Motion on a contingency fee basis. According to the Wall Street Journal, the firm received $200 million of the $615 million settlement. Wiley Rein & Fielding has 250 lawyers on staff and 67 of them are partners.
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3 Samsung Execs to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing |
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Link: http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/samsung
From: http://www.lawfuel.com
Three executives with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have agreed to plead guilty and serve jail time as part of the U.S. government's probe of price-fixing in the computer memory chip business, said the Justice Department. The three executives, including Samsung's senior manager of DRAM sales, each agreed to jail terms of between seven and eight months and will each pay a fine of $250,000 for their involvement in the conspiracy.
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Google Offers $90m to 'Click Fraud' Victims |
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Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2077597,00.html
From: http://www.lawfuel.com
Google, the search engine giant, has offered up to $90 million to settle a class action lawsuit by advertisers who accuse it of overbilling them through "click fraud." The move will give advertisers credits to reimburse them for "invalid" clicks over the past four years. Click fraud is not actual fraud as defined in criminal law, but it has become a defining issue for Google, which makes 99 per cent of its income from pay-per-click ads.
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Fired Employees Could Pay Big Price for Erasing Computer Files |
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Link: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1143207012194
You may be disgruntled when you get fired but you better think twice before you get even. Erasing files on your company laptop as you leave the firm could trigger expensive civil liability under a federal anti-hacker law, according to a recent 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling.
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Apple vs. Apple: The Beatles Suing Apple over iTunes |
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Link: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/29
Well, it looks like the Beatles aren't just going to "Let It Be." Apple Corps Ltd., the Beatles' record company and guardian of the band's musical heritage and business interests, is suing Apple Computer Inc., claiming the company violated a 1991 agreement by entering the music business with its iTunes online store.
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Married Man Sues eHarmony Over Rejection |
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Link: http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/14199052.htm
John Claassen wants a date so badly he's suing for one. He's taking eHarmony.com to court, because the popular online matchmaker refused to find him the perfect mate. Why? Because he is married, well, legally separated. He need only wait a couple of months when the divorce will be final.
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