Balough
December 13, 2013
Craigslist is not liable for publishing housing rentals and sales advertisements that contain discriminatory statements based on race, color, national origin, sex, religion and family status that would otherwise be prohibited by federal law, a federal district court ruled. According to the complaint, Craigslist publishes on its website housing advertisements that are composed and posted […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
The popularity of YouTube has increased visits to utube.com-and according to the owner of the domain name-that is a big problem. Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment has filed a trademark infringement case against the popular video download website. Universal Tube uses the domain name utube.com for its customers who want to buy used tube and […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
A Marine Corps officer has an expectation of privacy in her e-mail messages sent and stored in a government computer system, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces found. The e-mails were from the officer’s account stored on an unclassified government computer system on which she had authorized limited personal use. The […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
Google’s sale of trademarks as keywords is not a “use” under the law to support a claim for infringement, a New York federal district court found. Rescuecom Corp. sued Google under the Lanham Act for trademark infringement, false designation, and dilution of its trademark. The court granted Google’s motion to dismiss. Rescuecom alleged that Google’s […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
A website not accessible to the blind may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) since violations of the ADA are not limited to brick and mortar facilities, a federal court in San Francisco has ruled. The court found that a complaint filed by the National Federation of the Blind was sufficient to state a […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
The popular social networking website xanga.com has agreed to pay $1 million in civil penalties for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Xanga.com agreed to settle a complaint by the Federal Trade Commission that alleged over the past five years the website allowed 1.7 million xanga.com accounts to be opened by children under […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
Pebble Beach (without a golf course in the United Kingdom) cannot be sued in the United States for trademark infringement over its website by Pebble Beach (the one with the golf course in the US). The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that as long as Pebble Beach in the UK maintains only a passive […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
Kinderstart.com’s complaint against Google, Inc. for monopolistic practices and unfair competition failed to meet the grade, a trial court has ruled. Kinderstart.com sued Google for attempted monopolization, unfair competition and defamation and libel after the portal was blocked by Google’s page rank. Kinderstart said in 2000 it was “one of the choicest Internet destinations for […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
A blogger who allows others to post messages on his site is not a “publisher” of defamatory statements, thanks to the Communications Decency Act, a Pennsylvania District Court found. The court dismissed a libel action against Tucker Max, a Duke Law School graduate, who describes his goal in life to be “a celebrity that gets […]
Balough
December 13, 2013
An invention promotion operator must pay $26 million in consumer redress and stop its deceptive marketing practices. The firm failed to disclose, among other things, that it made very little money from invention royalties and the majority of its money from fees charged to the inventors. The court found that either expressly or by implication […]
