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Jason Reed / REUTERS U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaking in Washington on April 4, 2008. Three U.S. Supreme Court judges presided over a libel case between a tyrannical Roman general and the fictitious Latin Tribune newspaper for a mock ...

A neon Google logo is seen as employees work at the new Google office in Toronto, November 13, 2012. Reuters/Mark Blinch A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday questioned the reasoning behind a class-action lawsuit against Google Inc over its ...

The dispute concerned Monsanto's Roundup Ready genetically modified seed and is the latest case to address patent exhaustion in the United States. Justice Kagan delivered the opinion, which was published on May 13. She said: In the case at hand, ...

THE US Supreme Court has ruled in favour of Monsanto over an Indiana farmer accused of having pirated GM crops. The high court's unanimous decision focuses specifically on seed production, but experts say it may also have implications on ...

Although news is scarce about the federal investigation into corruption and wrongdoing in the Districts official circles, that doesnt mean things arent moving. First there is Keely Thompson Jr., the former professional boxer who, along with his ...

Judges on a federal appeals court panel spoke excitedly Wednesday about Google Inc.'s plan to create the world's largest digital library, signaling that the court has a favorable opinion about the value of the project. Three judges on the 2nd U.S.

We've heard that one or two adult industry members have had abortions, so consider this a cautionary tale—and a call to action! PHILADELPHIA, PA—By pretty much all accounts—most notably, the 281-page report prepared by Philadelphia County ...

Google Inc. (GOOG) asked an appeals court to deny class status to a group of authors who claim in a $3 billion lawsuit that the company's project to digitally copy millions of books from libraries violates their copyrights. Lawyers for Google and ...

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) The patents, known as "Cabilly" after one of the inventors, are invalid and aren't infringed by colon cancer and melanoma treatments New York-based Bristol-Myers sells in the U.S., the company's attorneys claimed in a ...