California Court Bars Unmasking of Web Critic
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Plaintiffs in a libel case can't subpoena Yahoo for names of posters to Yahoo Finance, appeals court says.
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A US appeals court ruled this week that a lower tribunal had no right to decide a case brought against US internet giant Yahoo by two French groups trying to halt online sales of Nazi memorabilia. Documents showed on Wednesday that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ...
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The California Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ruling that prohibits managers from procuring jobs for their celebrity clients.
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The Supreme Court has quashed charges of obscene exposure levied last year against avant-garde theater director Gerald Thomas, who mooned an audience after an opera performance.
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A lawsuit against MySpace has been dismissed by a U.S. District Judge who declared the social-networking site protected under the Communications Decency Act.
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A U.S. federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging a California voter initiative that increases monitoring of sex offenders and limits where they can live.
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A judge rejected a request by two fraternity brothers to halt the DVD release of the hit spoof movie "Borat." West Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph S. Biderman also refused to order the removal of a scene that includes the two men, who claim they had been duped into misbehaving on camera.
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In what could potentially be a landmark Vermont case, judge says thanks to the Fifth Amendment, a child pornography defendant doesn't need to turn over his laptop's PGP passphrase.
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A federal judge has refused to accept a guilty plea from a former America Online software engineer who was accused of stealing 92 million e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers.
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A state appeals court on Friday rejected Apple Computer Inc.&#039;s bid to identify the sources of leaked product information that appeared on Web sites, ruling that online reporters and bloggers are entitled to the same protections as traditional journalists.
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A California judge Monday dismissed state charges against a figure inÂ the Hewlett-Packard (HP) spying caseÂ becauseÂ the defendant already pleaded guilty to similar federal charges in the case.
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A judge will be removed from the case of two people charged with attempting to blackmail Alejandro Sanz because of biased comments made in court, a state appeals panel ruled Wednesday.
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Yahoo! has lost an appeal against a US district courtâs ruling which said that the company does not have to obey a French courtâs decision requiring it to block French citizens from accessing internet auctions of Nazi memorabilia at Yahoo!
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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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A lawyer specializing in freedom of speech and the Internet said Wednesday he will defend free of charge a 19-year-old publisher of a Web site facing a lawsuit over an article that revealed trade secrets about an Apple computer.
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In a decision that could expose U.S.-based Web sites to free speech laws of other nations, a federal appeals court on Monday found that Yahoo could not escape legal action in France for violating a French ban on the sale of Nazi-related items.
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A court ruled that the distributors of software used by millions of people to exchange music files over the Internet cannot be held liable for aiding copyright infringement.