By Emily Hootkins Federal Judge Overturns $625.5 Million Judgment against Apple On Monday, U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis reversed an October 2010 decision requiring Apple to pay over $625.5 million in patent infringement damages, CNET news and PC Magazine report. This reversal is the latest decision in a three-year battle between Mirror Worlds and Apple. Last October, a jury handed found Apple liable for infringing Mirror Worlds’ patents with its Cover Flow, Spotlight, and Time Machine software. Judge Davis reversed this ... Read More...
Archive for the ‘Electronic Comm. Privacy Act’ Category
Stored Communications Act Protects Facebook and MySpace Users’ Private Communications By Kathryn Freund – Edited by Jad Mills Crispin v. Christian Audigier, Inc., CV 09-09509-MMM-JEMx (C.D. Cal. May 26, 2010) Order The Central District of California reversed and quashed Magistrate Judge McDermott’s order granting a subpoena to obtain private Facebook and MySpace messages and vacated and remanded his order granting a subpoena to obtain Facebook wall postings and MySpace comments. Judge Morrow held that private messages sent using Facebook and ... Read More...
Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing En Banc in Quon v. Arch Wireless Text Message Privacy Case By Debbie Rosenbaum — Edited by Christina Hayes Quon v. Arch Wireless Operating Co. Ninth Circuit, No. 07-55282 Order denying rehearing en banc Opinion concurring in denial of rehearing en banc Opinion dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc On January 27, 2009, the Ninth Circuit denied rehearing en banc in Quon v. Arch Wireless, a case decided by a Ninth Circuit panel in June ... Read More...
Palin E-mail Hacker Indicted on Federal Charges by Tennessee Grand Jury By Andrew Ungberg –- Edited by Jon Choate United States v. Kernell E.D. Tenn., October 7, 2008, No. 3:08-CR-142 Indictment On October 7, 2008 a Tennessee grand jury charged David C. Kernell with violating 18 U.S.C. § 2701 (part of the Stored Communications Act) and 18 U.S.C § 1030(a)(2) (a subsection of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) for allegedly accessing the Yahoo e-mail account of Alaska Governor Sarah ... Read More...
District Court Compels Disclosure of YouTube User Logging Records, Protects Source Code By Jay Gill — Edited by Sarah Sorscher Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc. S.D.N.Y., July 1, 2008, No. 07 Civ. 2103 Order (Provided by Justia) The District Court for the Southern District of New York partially granted a discovery motion made by Viacom in its copyright suit against YouTube and YouTube’s parent company Google. The order compels Google to produce the contents of YouTube’s logging database, including ... Read More...
