Student's suspension for IM buddy icon upheld by US court
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Ready . . . AIM . . . censor! Student speech in the US continues to take a beating.â¦
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A state appeals court in Manhattan dismissed former basketball star Latrell Sprewell's libel suit against the New York Post over the newspaper's account of how he broke his finger nearly five years ago.
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A U.S. appeals court overturned a Pennsylvania man's lifetime ban on using computers and  accessing the Internet, saying it would hinder his ability to work or go to school.
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Europeâs second-highest court today upheld a ruling that found the software company abused its dominance in computer operating systems.
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Also: iPhone lawsuit on hold. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. International Trade Commission has denied a request by Qualcomm Inc. to stay an ITC ban on the importation of some Qualcomm chips and cell phones into the U.S. while the company continues its appeal in a patent infringement case filed against it by Broadcom Corp. The ITC found in an eight-page ruling issued Thursday that Qualcomm failed to meet a "four-prong test" applied in courts trying to determine whether to grant preliminary injunctions. The test was also used in this particular case by a U.S. federal court and requires that Qualcomm prove: a likelihood its appeal will succeed; that irreparable harm will be done to it if the stay is not imposed; that "issuance of a stay would not substantially harm other parties"; and "that the public interest favors a stay." After reviewing arguments and also hearing from other companies in the same market, the ITC found that Qualcomm didn't meet the requirements of the four-prong test. The ITC issued the ban on June 7 after hearings on the matter. The ban applies to some future mobile phones using Qualcomm 3G (third-generation) chips after the ITC found that Qualcomm infringed on one Broadcom patent. A jury in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Santa Ana found in late May that Qualcomm infringed on three other Broadcom patents and awarded Broadcom US$19.6 million in damages. A few hours before the ITC ruling came out, the head of the CTIA cellular industry association sent a letter to U.S. President George Bush urging him to toss out the ban, contending that it will "freeze innovation" for U.S. wireless networks and hinder industry efforts to improve emergency 911 services. The intervention of a president would be rare in such an instance, but even if Bush does not act as the CTIA has requested Qualcomm can appeal the ITC ban to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. As would be expected, Broadcom hailed the ITC decision, with its Senior Vice President and General Counsel David A. Dull saying in a statement that "the protection of intellectual property is essential to American competitiveness and innovation ... particularly in this age of advanced technology and huge worldwide consumer demand for electronic devices and equipment." He further noted that "the burden of resolving these matters rests squarely with Qualcomm." No word yet on the matter from Qualcomm, which is based in San Diego and so no one there was available to comment Friday morning U.S. Eastern Time. Â
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An appeals court in Aruba has ruled that a Dutch college student should not be rearrested in the disappearance of U.S. teenager Natalee Holloway.
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TORONTO/WASHINGTON  - A U.S. appeals court upheld  a patent infringement finding against BlackBerry e-mail device  maker Research In Motion Ltd. RIM.TO on Tuesday, but struck  down part of the ruling and sent it back to a lower court for  further proceedings.
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A US federal appeals court ruled in favor of peer-to-peer software makers this week, stating that the companies behind the Grokster and Morpheus services are not liable for copyright infringement due to the actions of their users.
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A Finnish court ruled against a  15-year-old student in a libel case on Friday after he posted a  clip of his teacher on YouTube, ordering the youth to pay 800  euros ($1,085) in damages and a 90 euro fine.
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A U.S. student who sued school officials after he was made to censor his T-shirt that labelled President George W. Bush "Chicken-Hawk-In-Chief" and a former alcohol and cocaine abuser won an appeal on Wednesday to wear the T-shirt to school.
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A California appeals court on  Wednesday said an anonymous Internet poster does not have to  reveal his identity after being sued for making "scathing  verbal attacks" against executives at a Florida company on a  Yahoo! Inc  message board.
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The Supreme Court rejected the claim by a high school football powerhouse in Tennessee that its coachâs recruiting violations were a form of free speech.
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As long as they're in someone else's phone A US Court of Appeal has granted permission for phones incorporating Qualcomm chips to be imported into the US, but the chips themselves remain banned.â¦
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The Supreme Court entered into a free-speech dispute Friday involving a high school student suspended over a "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner.
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The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected US sprinter Torri Edwards&#39;s appeal of her doping ban and upheld her two-year suspension from track and field.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Jim O'Brien won an appeal Thursday and can return to the college sidelines after he had been fired by Ohio State and essentially banned from coaching by the NCAA for paying a recruit.