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eBay settles Skype software suit
San Francisco - E-commerce giant eBay has settled its long- running legal feud with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for a 2-billion-dollar sale of the internet telephony pioneer, the company announced Friday. Under the terms of the settlement...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Court rejects request to block access to Pirate Bay website
Oslo - Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor Friday welcomed a Norwegian court ruling that the firm was not obliged to block its customers from accessing the controversial Pirate Bay file- sharing website. The International Federation of the Pho...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

War crimes tribunal appoints attorney for Karadzic - Summary
The Hague - The war crimes tribunal in The Hague said Thursday it has appointed an attorney for Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, and adjourned the trial until March 1. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said it ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Doors shut as psychologist testifies at German murder trial
Dresden- A psychologist briefed German judges behind closed doors Thursday on the mental state of Alex W, the xenophobic unemployed man who killed an Egyptian woman and wounded her husband with a knife in a Dresden courtroom in July. The stabbing dea...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Eleven-fold murder suspect held without bond in Ohio - Summary
Washington - An 11-fold serial murder suspect in Cleveland, Ohio, was ordered held without bail on Wednesday after prosecutors said he posed a great danger to the public. Anthony Sowell, 50, is suspected in the murders of 11 women whose bodies have b...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Italian court sentences 23 US citizens in imam kidnapping - Summary
Milan - A Milan court on Wednesday sentenced 23 US citizens in absentia to several-year prison terms for the broad-daylight kidnapping of a Muslim cleric six years earlier. The case concerned the 2003 kidnapping of Abu Omar, who was seized on a stree...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Dresden attacker denies killing of Egyptian woman was racist act
Dresden, Germany - Admitting that he stabbed an Egyptian woman to death in a German courtroom, the accused man, Alex W, denied in Dresden on Wednesday that his motivation had been racist. The admission was read in court by his lawyer, Veikko Bartel. ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

US cellphone giants to clash in court, on streets
San Francisco - US cellphone carrier AT&T sued its larger rival Verizon on Tuesday, just days before Verizon is to launch a new phone seen as the most credible threat to the iPhone, which in the US runs exclusively on AT&T's network. The lawsuit alle...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Courtroom murder of Egyptian woman wanted to die - Summary
Dresden - A police officer testified on Tuesday that Alex W, accused of murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman in court, had asked to be killed after the deed. Policemen who stormed the courtroom when they heard the commotion, described the bloody, chao...

[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

Karadzic trial decision to be issued later this week - Summary
The Hague - The Hague tribunal will decide later this week about the future of the war crimes trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, the judges said at the end of a hearing on Tuesday. The court will give a written decision on whether ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-03 ] Category : [ Legal (General) ]

 

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