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SCO seals deal for legal expense cap

November 5, 2004 Suffering stock steadied by deal that will hold costs of multiple Linux and Unix lawsuits at $31 million. TAGS: SCO Group Inc., law firm, recovery, agreement, Unix, Linux

Week in review: Google's DoubleClick deletion dilemma

December 14, 2007 Fight over megamerger takes intriguing turns, while social networks open developer platforms. Also: celebrating Commodore 64's legacy. TAGS: DoubleClick Inc., Republican, law firm, Electronic Privacy Information Center, antitrust, Google Inc., merger, Week in review, chairman, acquisition, agency, Europe, U.S.

Dell sued over bait-and-switch charges

February 23, 2005 Potential California class action suit involves more than 100 complaints about the price and quality of PCs. TAGS: class action, law firm, suit, complaint, PC company, California, PC

Veritas faces investor lawsuit

July 9, 2004 Storage-software maker gets hit with an investor lawsuit in the wake of its earnings warning. TAGS: VERITAS Software Corp., earnings warning, law firm

SCO lawyers promised settlement payday

November 6, 2003 Lawyers representing SCO Group in the software maker's ongoing intellectual-property litigation could stand to benefit significantly if the company settles its pending lawsuits or is sold. TAGS: SCO Group Inc., David Boies, law firm, lawyer, intellectual property, litigation, lawsuit, agreement, Linux, Unix, IBM Corp., open source, software company

Novell boosts legal team with litigation expert

August 6, 2007 Company taps high-powered patent lawyer Eric Acker, who has a formidable history, including 45 jury trials as a federal prosecutor. TAGS: Novell Inc., litigation, federal prosecutor, lawyer, law firm, patent, Microsoft Corp.

Key to HP's credibility in hands of new lawyers

September 28, 2006 HP has chosen a venerable Philadelphia law firm to conduct an in-house investigation into its leaks scandal. TAGS: credibility, law firm, investigation, HP, Philadelphia, federal prosecutor, prosecutor, attorney, lawyer, professor, e-mail

Investors sue Vonage over IPO

June 5, 2006 Shareholders file a class action lawsuit against the Internet telephony provider in the wake of its disastrous IPO. TAGS: Vonage Holdings Corp., IPO, underwriter, investor, class action, law firm, IP telephony, shareholder, complaint

Apple to offer $50 credit in iPod suit

June 2, 2005 Computer maker agrees to class action settlement after hundreds complained about faulty iPod batteries. TAGS: settlement, class action, complaint, battery, Apple iPod, Apple Computer, credit, law firm, warranty, California

Apple's subpoenas challenged in court

February 14, 2005 Lawyers for Mac news sites say their clients deserve First Amendment protection in legal tiff over who leaked product details. TAGS: subpoena, journalist, brief, law firm, Apple Computer, lawyer, publication, First Amendment, reporter, protection, Apple Macintosh, TV

SCO to cap legal expenses

August 31, 2004 Lawyers to get bigger share of any settlement in Linux suits in exchange for billing less up front. TAGS: SCO Group Inc., Unix, BayStar Capital, law firm, settlement, expense, Linux, agreement, payment, security

California sues Microsoft for antitrust--again

August 27, 2004 Five California counties and two cities sue the software giant under state antitrust laws, for taking advantage of government buyers. TAGS: county, class action, California, city, law firm, antitrust, lawsuit, open-source software, Microsoft Corp., San Francisco, Linux, operating system, Microsoft Windows

Linux lab hires lawyers for Torvalds

November 14, 2003 The Open Source Development Lab will pay to represent Linus Torvalds, the Linux operating system founder who this week was subpoenaed in connection with a $3 billion suit against IBM. TAGS: Linus Torvalds, Open Source Development Labs, SCO Group Inc., lab, IBM Corp., suit, law firm, Linux, Unix, consortium, founder, GPL, Red Hat Inc., lawyer, open source, operating system

MySpace.com, News Corp. sued in assault cases

January 18, 2007 Site and parent company are being sued by the families of girls allegedly solicited and sexually assaulted by adult users of MySpace. TAGS: MySpace, News Corp., South Carolina, Pennsylvania, law firm, New York, family, Texas

Shareholders: Salesforce.com misled us before IPO

July 30, 2004 Three lawsuits allege that the company made false statements about its financial prospects in the run-up to its stock market launch. TAGS: Salesforce.com Inc., IPO, class action, shareholder, investor, law firm, lawsuit

Rivals challenge Bells to high court rumble

March 4, 2004 Local telephone competitors call the ruling by a federal appeals court "ridiculous" and "outrageous" and say they will appeal the matter to the highest court in the land. TAGS: decision-making, court, Verizon Communications, carrier, rule, law firm, authority, decision, state

Court rules in Oracle's favor on access to evidence

March 20, 2004 The software maker wins a small battle in the PeopleSoft case, with a pretrial ruling that preserves the rights of its attorneys to review sensitive information submitted by competitors. TAGS: Oracle Corp., attorney, product development, PeopleSoft Inc., Human Resources, favor, law firm, request, protection, SAP AG, order, government, document, Microsoft Corp.

HP chairman resigns, CEO confirms knowledge of probe

September 22, 2006 CEO Mark Hurd takes over chairman's post as Patricia Dunn resigns from a board grappling with scandal. HP's boardroom drama TAGS: Mark Hurd, investigation, Patricia Dunn, HP, phase, probe, chairman, law firm, lawyer, knowledge, CEO, California

Legal argument could hamper high-tech job-changers

August 26, 2005 Controversial argument says some workers should be kept from moving to a rival, whether they've signed a noncompete agreement or not. TAGS: Kai-Fu Lee, disclosure, argument, employer, theory, law firm, agreement, Google Inc., worker, attorney, Microsoft Corp.