"Civil lawsuits" news, interviews, and features

News about Civil lawsuits

• MacKeeper customers can file a claim to get their money back

  A proposed class-action suit settlement will put $2 million into a reimbursement fund

• Apple, Nike settle US lawsuit over FuelBand inaccuracies

  Nike will pay out up to US$2.4 million to customers

• Oracle and Google to return to court for Android battle

  The companies will battle over Google's use of Java in Android

• FTC sues identity protection service LifeLock again

  The agency contends the company hasn't complied with a 2010 settlement

• Apple retail employee lawsuit over bag searches receives class-action status

  The lawsuit calls for Apple to pay employees for the time they spent waiting for managers to check their bags

• ACLU asks court to immediately kill NSA phone snooping

  A court that already found the program illegal should shut it down, instead of allowing it to be phased out, the ACLU says

Features about Civil lawsuits

• US court strikes down net neutrality: What's next?

  The FCC has several options, but many of them aren't likely to prevail

• Debate over NSA surveillance shifts with judge's ruling, task force report

  Critics of the agency's surveillance programs say momentum has shifted in the debate

• Google Books legal epic moves to appeals court

  Google won at the district court level last week, but the Authors Guild isn't giving up

• US antitrust ruling could temper Apple's revolutionary zeal

  Apple may not approach other markets as aggressively as it did with book publishers in 2010

• 2012: The year in quotes

  Some of the most interesting, and amusing, tech-related quotes this year were uttered in courtrooms

• The scariest US software project horror stories of 2012

  Billions of dollars were wasted and tempers ran hot as multiple projects hit the skids this year