Dallas, TX - Zenimax Media, Inc. Sues Oculus VR, LLC, Facebook, Inc. and Others on copyright and patent violation theories seeking billions in damages.

Zenimax claimed that Oculus stoled important elements of technology developed by it incorporated in the Oculus headset product.

Oculus and Facebook denied Zenimax's claims of infringement.

Zenimx sought billions in damag... More...   $0 (01-19-2017 - TX)

On August 18, 1997, the twenty-eight-year-old victim, Victoria Witherspoon Carr Hollingsworth, disappeared from her parents‟ home in Chattanooga, Tennessee. On June 5, 1999, her body was discovered. No suspects were indicted in the initial investigation of the victim‟s murder. Seventeen years after the victim‟s disappearance, in January 2014, the production company for the tel... More...   $0 (01-17-2017 - TN)

Section 289 of the Patent Act provides a damages remedy specific to design patent infringement. A person who manufactures or sells “any article of manufacture to which [a patented] design or colorable imitation has been applied shall be liable to the owner to the extent of his total profit.” 35 U. S. C. §289. In the case of a design for a singlecomponent product, such as a dinner plate, the prod... More...   $0 (12-26-2016 - TN)

San Jose, CA - Jury Finds In Favor Of Arista Networks, Inc.

Cisco Systems, Inc. sued Arista Network Inc. on patent and copyright violation theories claiming that Arista violated its copyrights by adopting 500 of the same commands for configuring hardware that Cisco developed for managing its own equipment. Cisco claimed that Arista should have used its own commands—known in the industry a... More...   $0 (12-18-2016 - CA)

Late in February 2012, Aaron Coleman’s mother reported him missing. Coleman’s car was soon found outside of Meridian. . . . [S]everal more days passed before Coleman’s body was discovered in the woods near Interstate 20. Coleman was last seen alive on February 27[, 2012,] at Jordan’s house. When questioned, Jordan confirmed [that] Coleman had stopped by that day. . . . Jordan told the Meridian Pol... More...   $0 (12-16-2016 - MS)

Donna Corbell sued Thomas Gaetano DeVito, DSHT, Inc., Dodger Theatricals, Ltd., Des McAnuff, Eric S. Elice, Frankie Valli, Marshall Brickman, Robert J. Gaudio, JB Viva Vega, LP, Getting Home, Inc., Jersey Boys Broadway Limited Partnership, Jersey Boys Records Limited Partnership, Skunk, Inc., Michael S. David on copyright violation theories claim that they used without permission Tommy DeVito - Th... More...   $0 (12-08-2016 - NV)

Around 1:30 a.m. one morning in August 2008, a gang-related fight involving Chavez-Aguilar and his brother, Rene, erupted outside a nightclub in Wichita. As the fight wound down, Rene drove his truck through the crowd, killing two people and injuring a third. Chavez-Aguilar was in the passenger seat, and according to several witnesses, he was shouting and cursing out the window as Rene drove. More...   $0 (12-07-2016 - KS)

New York, NY - Bahamas Man Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison For Cyber Hacking Scheme To Steal Celebrities’ Personal And Copyrighted Information

Alonzo Knowles, a/k/a “Jeff Moxey,” was sentenced to five years in prison for criminal copyright infringement of scripts of movies and television shows that had not yet aired, as well as theft of personally identifiable information, all of which KN... More...   $0 (12-06-2016 - NY)

Rule 59(e) requires that any motion to alter or amend judgment “must be filed no later than 28 days after the entry of the judgment.” RCFC 59(e). This 28-day deadline is strictly enforced under Rule 6(b), which provides that “[t]he court must not extend the time to act under RCFC 52(b), 59(b), (d), and (e), and 60(b).” RCFC 6(b)(2); see Spengler v. United States, 128 Fed. Cl. 338, 342 (2016) (e... More...   $0 (12-05-2016 - DC)

McBride and codefendant, Shyneckia King, were tried together. The
complaining witness told the jury that McBride and King hit her and pulled out her
hair while she was at a Davenport park with her children on April 27, 2015.
During her testimony, the State offered into evidence three screenshots1 from a
video that had been uploaded to Facebook, designated as Exhibits 4, 5, a... More...   $0 (11-30-2016 - IA)

In this case, the plaintiff claimed copyright infringement.
But the contents of the copyrighted work and the allegedly
infringing works were never introduced into evidence. The
district court held that the claim failed as a matter of law.
We agree, and affirm.

I. Background

Robin Antonick developed the computer code for the original
John Madden Football g... More...   $0 (11-27-2016 - CA)

On March 19, 2012, the appellant, Wendell Thomas, was convicted by an
Orleans Parish jury of possession of heroin in violation of La. R.S. 40:966(C)(1),
after which he was sentenced to serve five years at hard labor. This Court affirmed
Mr. Thomas’s conviction and sentence on June 19, 2013. State v. Thomas, 2012
1319 (La. App. 4 Cir. 6/19/13) (unpub.).
In the interim, on... More...   $0 (11-17-2016 - LA)

Jeffrey Hessler appeals the order of the district court for Scotts Bluff County which overruled his motion for postconviction relief and denied his petition for a writ of error coram nobis. Hessler claimed that he had received ineffective assistance of trial counsel and was not competent to enter the plea on which his conviction for first degree sexual assault on a child was based. We affirm.
... More...   $0 (10-31-2016 - SD)

The background and facts of this case were reiterated in our decision in
Hurst v. State in pertinent part as follows:
Hurst was convicted for the May 2, 1998, first-degree murder of Cynthia Harrison in a robbery at the Popeye’s restaurant where Hurst was employed in Escambia County, Florida. The victim, also an employee, had been bound and gagged and repeatedly cut and stabbed with a we... More...   $0 (10-17-2016 - FL)

The plaintiff is the widow of Louis K. Smith, who authored and copyrighted a book entitled The Hardscrabble Zone (“Hardscrabble”).  In 2009, Mr. Smith contracted with Smashwords, Inc. (“Smashwords”), an online ebook distributor, to market his book.  One relevant term of the agreement provided:
6d. Promotional Rights. Smashwords shall have the right to distribute samples of the Work in any form... More...   $0 (10-10-2016 - )

On the evening of Sunday, November 11, 2012, the Plano Police Department responded
to a call about a possible burglary at 3121 Royal Oaks Drive, Plano, Texas, where they found
fifty-year-old Billy Tanner deceased in his home. He had sustained blunt force trauma to the
head and multiple stab wounds.
In the summer of 2012, Billy Tanner’s step-daughter, Casey James, her two child... More...   $0 (10-04-2016 - TX)

New York, NY - Costco Ordered To Pay Tiffany $5.5 Million For Selling Fake Merchandise

Tiffany & Company sued Costco Wholesale Company on a trademark infringement theory under 15 U.S.C. 1051 claiming that Costo sold counterfeit Tiffany diamond engagement rings.

The Court ruled, before trial, that Costco willfully infringed Tiffany's trademark by selling rings bearing the luxury ... More...   $0 (10-02-2016 - NY)

The following facts were elicited during defendant's seven
day jury trial. On October 1, 2012, at around 11:28 p.m., two
women, Bronique McLeod and S.B., and two men, P.S. and R.P.,
were going to a club in Irvington.1 S.B. was driving a minivan
with McLeod in the front passenger seat, P.S. sitting behind
S.B., and R.P. sitting behind McLeod.
While stopped at a red ... More...   $0 (09-21-2016 - NJ)

Houston, TX - Accountant Convicted of Embezzling More than $3 Million from Houston Company

An accountant from Georgia admitted he committed wire fraud and stole more than $3 million from Houston company Airis International Holdings.

Daniel Nathan West, 50, of Duluth, Georgia, was previously employed as the treasurer and chief financial officer for Airis International Holdings. In... More...   $0 (09-17-2016 - TX)

Beaumont, TX - Former Orange County Detective Guilty in HUD Fraud Scheme

A 47-year-old former Orange County Sheriff’s Detective has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas.

Chad Wayne Hogan, of Orange, Texas, pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with money laundering today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Giblin.

Acco... More...   $0 (09-06-2016 - TX)

This case presents serious questions concerning the role of the Fourth Amendment in the confrontation on the street between the citizen and the policeman investigating suspicious circumstances.

Petitioner Terry was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon and sentenced to the statutorily prescribed term of one to three years in the penitentiary. 1 Following the denial of a pret... More...   $0 (08-24-2016 - OK)

On February 12, 2013, the defendant was indicted for one count of rape of a child occurring between May 1, 2006, and September 1, 2006 in case number 13-00596. The defendant apparently filed a motion to dismiss some months after he was indicted, and the trial court held two hearings on the motion in November 2013, close to the time the case was set for trial.
During the hearings, the def... More...   $0 (08-22-2016 - TN)

Miami, FL - Colombian Citizen Sentenced for his Participation in an International Money Laundering Conspiracy

A Colombian citizen was sentenced to 30 months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release for his participation in an international money laundering conspiracy.

Juan Carlos Medina Cardenas, 46, previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit ... More...   $0 (08-19-2016 - FL)

The facts of this case are altogether tragic, and the travel is anything but lackluster. We
recite only those facts that are relevant to the instant appeal, and so invite the reader to consult
our opinion in State v. Tempest, 651 A.2d 1198 (R.I. 1995) for a more detailed discussion. On February 19, 1982, at approximately 3:20 p.m., fifteen-year-old Lisa LaDue (LaDue)2
came home t... More...   $0 (08-17-2016 - RI)

These consolidated cases challenge provisions of a recently enacted North Carolina election law. The district court rejected contentions that the challenged provisions violate the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and TwentySixth Amendments of the Constitution. In evaluating the massive record in this case, the court issued extensive factual findings. We appreciate and commend t... More...   $0 (07-29-2016 - NC)