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Race Tires Amer., Inc. v. Hoosier Racing Tire, Corp., — F.3d —, 2012 WL 887593 (3d Cir. Mar. 16, 2012)
On appeal, the Third Circuit vacated the District Court’s approval of taxable costs related to electronic discovery and remanded with instruction to re-tax in accordance with this opinion. Specifically, the court concluded that the relevant vendors’ charges “would not qualify as fees for ‘exemplification’” and that “of the numerous services the vendors performed, only the scanning of hard copy [...]
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Bloggers aiming to subject enemies to flaming rhetoric should take note of three six-figure verdicts from Georgia courts in the past 15 months for plaintiffs who said they were defamed online.
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Bot Vid: Robo Squirrel
Working with wild rattlesnakes is not exactly the safest or simplest job in the world. It’s harder to study them in a realistic enviroment than friendlier, less fang-y animals…like squirrels. Oddly enough, Northern Pacific rattlesnakes actually do like squirrels (for lunch). That’s why a research team recently built a robot squirrel that, while crude-looking to human eyes, is so realistic, down to emitting the right kind of sounds and flicking its tail in ways that [...]
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Apps for popular social networking sites and games including Facebook, Twitter, Yelp and possibly Angry Birds are accessing confidential personal address book data without user permission, contends a federal suit filed in Austin, Texas, this week. The suit, which was filed in federal district court in Travis County, seeks an injunction barring tech firms from taking confidential data without permission and damages, the American-Statesman reports. It asserts claims including invasion of privacy; unjust enrichment; intentional interception, disclosure or [...]
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YouTube Obama Documentary Let’s You View, Share, And Donate. Team Obama is taking on social media with grand finesse. An upcoming 17-minute documentary from the Obama campaign called “The Road We’ve Traveled” will premier on YouTube tonight, directed by Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim and narrated by Tom Hanks. The hybrid platform will letting views watch, volunteer and donate, all via YouTube. Mitt Romney has a similar system [...]
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In the first known New Jersey example of a juror punished for conducting internet research about a case, a judge imposed a $500 content sanction against a jury foreman.
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Instead of picketing outside company headquarters, an advocacy group is using Facebook ads to try to influence people whose profiles identify them as employees of Freddie Mac or JPMorgan Chase.
The anti-foreclosure ad campaign, which launches today, asks Freddie and Chase employees to talk to their CEOs about a veteran — a former Marine — who’s facing eviction in California.
“This is not any sort of attack on the employees there,” said Jim Pugh of Rebuild the Dream, which is running the ad campaign. “We’re [...]
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Now that the EU’s ratification of ACTA has departed from the original script of everyone just waving it through, the European Commission is clearly trying to come up with Plan B. Some insights into its thinking can be gained from the minutes (pdf) of a recent Commission meeting, pointed out to us by André Rebentisch.
Here’s what the President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, said about ACTA:
The President introduced the topic, commenting on the intensity and [...]
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As sales of electronic books and readers skyrocket, the threat of piracy and other copyright issues loom. Publishers are test-driving different litigation strategies to fight illegal downloads.
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Two sets of plaintiffs in D.C., and Maryland filed complaints in federal court against Google, accusing the company of unlawfully tracking the activity of users through the Safari browser.
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The new iPad has several lawyer-friendly features, including four times the screen resolution of the iPad 2, built-in speech-to-text conversion, and an optional fourth-generation cellular network connection, Apple announced Wednesday.
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Before you’ve even sipped your morning brew, a regional German court has delivered yet another stern judgement affecting a multinational organization. This time it’s Facebook back in the dock over the Friend Finder feature, which uploads a user’s contact list to Zuckerberg’s bunker without proper warning. Another offense involves the ownership of data — any original photo or music track uploaded to Facebook supposedly belongs to the company and can be used however it likes, which has now [...]
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Francis Fukuyama, one of America’s best known public intellectuals, talks with Fast Company about drones, terrorism, Hollywood, model airplanes, and why velcro rules.
Francis Fukuyama is one of America’s best known public intellectuals… and an enthusiastic homemade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enthusiast. The author of The End Of History And The Last Man recently blogged about his experiences building a DIY aerial drone for The American Interest. Fukuyama, an amateur photographer and videographer, built the drone for photography and [...]
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On the eve of two key hearings on California’s Court Case Management System’s future, judicial leaders seem to be backing off the vision of a statewide network.
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A trademark appeal board has denied registration to four trademark applications for the term “CrackBerry,” ruling that the marks would dilute Research in Motion’s BlackBerry mark.
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