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If you're going to make a joke about killing people...
Nov 11, 2010
don't do it on Twitter. In England.
Actually, you know what? Just don't do it.
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The Oracle case gets personal
Nov 9, 2010
Oracle's co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison is set to take the stand today in a trial where his firm is suing German company SAP for stealing software. SAP has already admitted wrongdoing, so what else is happening in this case? Steve Henn reports.
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Labor Board says employees can talk about work on social media
Nov 9, 2010
So it's probably not the best idea to complain about your boss on Twitter or Facebook -- but the National Labor Relations Board argues that workers have the right to discuss working conditions on social media, positive or otherwise.
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Supreme Court to rule on arbitration clauses, class-action lawsuits
Nov 8, 2010
Sometimes it's not worth hiring a lawyer over an unjustified $30 charge from your cell phone servicer -- so you band together with several other consumers to file a class-action lawsuits. Federal law states these lawsuits are not allowed if there was an arbitration clause in the contract, but state courts have been ruling otherwise.
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30 months in jail for DDoS attacks on conservative websites
Nov 8, 2010
Mitchell L. Frost of Bellevue, Ohio is a 23-year-old former student at the University of Akron and he's going to jail for two and a half years in...
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Minnesota mom fined $1.5 million for downloading music
Nov 4, 2010
The case of Jammie Thomas-Rassert of Brainerd, Minn. has been dragging on for years. She's the first person to take a lawsuit from the RIAA to a...
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Google to pay huge settlement, you to not get any
Nov 3, 2010
When Google launched Google Buzz there were some glaring privacy holes in it. They were trying to set up the next big social network and so...
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Video games head to the Supreme Court
Nov 3, 2010
Video games have come a long way since Atari and Super Mario -- and sometimes, that means quite a load of visual violence. Senator Leland Yee of Calif. thinks it may be too much and wants to impose limits on selling such games to children. The Supreme Court hears the case today.
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A legal twist in Canada's 'mat leave' law
Nov 1, 2010
Canadian women are entitled to a whopping full year for maternity leave with partial pay. And they can return to their same job too -- unless they are terminated during the leave. Marketplace's Sean Cole takes a look at a controversial exception in the Canadian maternity leave law.
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Verizon to pay the FCC and customers
Oct 28, 2010
I'm not really sure how much of a difference $25 million makes to a company like Verizon (they'll probably make that in the opening seconds of the...
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