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Google Inc. and Apple Inc. were among seven technology companies that must face a lawsuit claiming they violated antitrust laws by entering into agreements not to recruit each other’s employees, a federal judge said.

A Missouri federal judge ruled the FBI did not need a warrant to secretly attach a GPS monitoring device to a suspect's car to track his pub...

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Apple and some advertising networks over data collection that allegedly took place without the users' "consent or knowledge."

Albert Gonzalez, the hacker who masterminded the largest credit card heists in U.S. history, is asking a federal judge to throw out his earlier guilty pleas.

Gonzalez asserts that the Secret Service authorized him to commit the crimes.

Philadelphia Inquirer: "A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now - and potentially much more later - to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district's webcam monitoring."

The federal judge overseeing several of the major new P2P copyright cases has given the lawyers two weeks to convince her that suing 4,577 people in a single lawsuit is proper.

Why shouldn't 4,576 of them "be dismissed for misjoinder," she asked?

"Lawyers in the Windows Vista Capable lawsuit against Microsoft want a federal judge to force the company to use Windows Update to notify potential class members of the suit, according to court documents." This is the opening paragraph in an article in ComputerWorld.

A number of people, including myself think this is a bad idea.

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