Latest Trial Court News
EBay User's Copyright Fight Goes to High Court
At trial, Chief Judge Donald Pogue, who had been sitting in the Southern District of New York by designation from the Court of International Trade, refused to let Kirtsaeng use the first-sale doctrine as a defense. A record of Kirtsaeng's PayPal
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:50P
Working Through Lunch? Not the Manager's Problem
But the high court sided with businesses when it ruled that requiring companies to order breaks is unmanageable and that those decisions should be left to workers. The decision provided clarity that businesses had sought regarding the law.
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:50P
Roger Clemens trial: Jury selection begins
WASHINGTON-aaRoger Clemens and his legal team made it a point to make eye contact with 90 prospective jurors as they walked into the ceremonial courtroom at the US District Court, then listened for more than an hour as Judge Reggie Walton reviewed an
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:49P
European court rules against Russia on 1940 Katyn massacre
It said Russia had also violated its obligation to cooperate with the court by refusing to submit information needed to examine the case. "The approach chosen by the Russian military courts to maintain to the applicants' face... that their relatives
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:48P
Second Circuit Clarifies DMCA Safe Harbor in Viacom v. YouTube
Apr. 5, 2012), the court vacated the district court's summary judgment decision that YouTube was immune from liability under the DMCA and remanded for further fact-finding. Along the way, the court addressed “a series of significant questions of
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:46P
CA Supreme Court finally decides Brinker: employers must only "provide" meal
The Court also issued some particular holdings on the criteria of how a trial court must rule on class certification. While a 10 minute rest period must be authorized per four hours "or major fraction thereof," such a rest period need not be authorized
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:46P
Clemens at new perjury trial
(Yuri Gripas/Reuters) Former pitching ace Roger Clemens arrived in court on Monday for a new trial on charges he lied to Congress about taking steroids, nine months after a judge stopped his first trial in its opening days because of a misstep by
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:45P
Norway killer admits massacre, says it was self-defense
On the first day of his long-awaited trial, Anders Behring Breivik rejected the authority of the court as it sought to assign responsibility for the July 22 attacks that shocked Norway and jolted the image of terrorism in Europe.
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:45P
NORWAY: Breivik admits massacre, claims self defence at trial - World News
“I acknowledge the acts, but not criminal guilt and I claim self-defence,” he told the court on the first day of his 10-week trial. The judge then entered the plea as “not guilty.” His plea came after prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh spent over an hour
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:44P
NORWAY: Breivik admits massacre, claims self defence at trial - World News
“I acknowledge the acts, but not criminal guilt and I claim self-defence,” he told the court on the first day of his 10-week trial. The judge then entered the plea as “not guilty.” His plea came after prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh spent over an hour
Updated: 04/16/2012 12:44P