News: Judge dismisses keylogger case
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Covert use of a hardware keystroke logger does not violate federal wiretap law, court rules.
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A judge in Helsinki has dismissed cases against two men charged with violating a European copyright directive, saying that the CSS technology the men are charged with hacking doesn't constitute much of a copy protection in the first place.
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A US judge has dismissed the racketeering case against media tycoon Lord Black brought by Hollinger International.
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A judge on Tuesday dismissed a civil lawsuit filed against William Kennedy Smith by his former personal assistant who alleged he sexually assaulted her.
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A US judge throws out a lawsuit brought by ex-CIA agent Valerie Plame against Vice-President Dick Cheney.
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A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against a state judge who barred anyone from saying "rape" or "victim" during a criminal trial, ruling Tuesday that the accuser failed to prove that he should intervene.
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For the second time, a judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a military contractor that whistleblowers accuse of scamming the U.S. government out of tens of millions of dollars in the first months of the Iraq war.
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Will a judge throw out a lawsuit seeking millions in damages for the alleged mass transfer of customer calling records to the National Security Agency? The request for dismissal is complicated by recent admissions that corporations helped the anti-terrorism spying effort.
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A Russian court throws out a case against a headteacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software.
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Claiming national security concerns, and backed by Justice Department special counsel, the phone provider argues in federal court that a lawsuit against it for ponying up millions of phone records for a secret government data-mining program should be dismissed. Ryan Singel reports from the courthouse.
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A US appeals court dismisses a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration's domestic spying programme.
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A U.S. judge dismissed criminal charges against 13 of 16 former employees of accounting firm KPMG in a tax-shelter case on Monday, saying that prosecutors inappropriately interfered with their defense.
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Citing national security, a federal judge Tuesday threw out a lawsuit aimed at blocking AT&amp;T from giving telephone records to the government for use in the war on terror.
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A federal judge who once struck down Georgia's voter identification law has approved a revised version, dismissing a lawsuit aimed at stopping the state from enforcing the statute.
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A recent federal judge rejected the Justice Department's request to force a defendant to cough up his PGP passphrase. We unsuccessfully asked the agency to elaborate.
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A judge has tossed out a lawsuit alleging that about 400 retired federal drug agents were defamed by a false statement on screen at the end of the film "American Gangster."
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By Bloomberg News. A judge dismissed a lawsuit against Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of the Oracle Corporation, and Jeffrey O. Henley, its chairman, that accused them of insider trading