Category: Litigation

According to The Australian and the Globe and Mail, life is imitating Monty Python in this amusing recreation of the famous parrot sketch — only this avian dispute has ended up in court: An indignant Israeli is suing a pet shop that he says sold him a dying parrot, reports the Ma’ariv newspaper. Itzik Simowitz… Read more →

‘Apple has shown an increasingly litigious face in recent months, targeting news site Think Secret a week before the start of Macworld San Francisco last month, and going after two additional sites in December 2004 for their reporting on prerelease builds of the upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). In the case of the Tiger… Read more →

An Austrian trade union has called for restrictions upon the duration for which department stores may play Christmas carols as background music. As a long-time busker (violin), I know only too well that the best money always comes from Christmas carols, so I can see why department stores are keen to permeate every corner of… Read more →

Mere weeks after the sentencing of the three operators of an MP3 download website (who escaped jail time), the Australia Record Industry Association (ARIA) has launched another action – this time against directors and employees of Com-Cen, an Australian ISP. The ISP is alleged to have breached copyright by hosting (though not operating) a similar… Read more →

A Melbourne man has sued his ex-wife for over $75 000 in child support payments after DNA testing revealed the child was not conceived by him. However, the Federal Magistrates Court seems to have reservation about granting the step-father a ‘refund’: Asked by the woman’s barrister if he considered himself the child’s father, he said:… Read more →

Throughout the day today I’ll be presenting a brief overview of some current happenings in IT litigation; interesting issues continue to be explored by various legislatures, and there are an increasing number of IP/IT cases being heard in Appeal Courts. My Applied Mathematics lecture was cancelled without notice this morning, so I have 3 hours… Read more →

Another quick Tuesday afternoon roundup, meticulously crafted after a long day at university. One can only debate the efficacy of access to the justice system so many times… On with the show: Domain names: 50 000 free .id.au names have been released by aUDA to promote the new local domain suffix. Get yours now (then… Read more →

Moore CJ of the Alabama Supreme Court is stepping up his efforts to retain a 2400kg statue depicting the Christian parable of the ten commandments in the state courthouse. The order of a federal judge to remove the statue recently lapsed, inciting the other eight justices of the Alabama Supreme Court to order its immediate… Read more →

Quite a few movers and shakers this week, with a major (USD $521 million) settlement being awarded to Eolas Technologies Inc and the University of California, the co-plaintiffs in a recent patent infringement case against Microsoft Corporation. The plaintiffs alleged that Internet Explorer’s “plugin” feature, which allows third-party applications to add functionality to the web… Read more →

The Family Court today ruled that detaining children is unlawful. Affirming a previous decision, Justice Strickland said he had “determined prima facie that children are unlawfully in detention and there is a real issue to be tried about that.” Counsel for the children applied for their immediate release pending a full trial which is due… Read more →