Since the advent of iPhone applications in July, 2008 over 134,000 iPhone applications have become available at the Apple App Store. Over 3 billion of such applications for news, information, entertainment, and more have been downloaded by iPhone users. With ESPN, The New York Times, Facebook, Li ...

Wired Magazine is reporting that the Judicial Conference of the United States, the body that develops policy for federal courts in that country, has proposed new model jury instructions that explicitly ban the use of applications like Facebook and Twitter: “U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson o ...

EON Corp. IP Holdings, LLC v. Sensus USA Inc., 2010 WL 346218(E.D.Tex. Jan 21, 2010) (NO. 6:09-CV-116) Judge: John Love Holding: Motion to Compel Testimony/Strike Infringement Contentions DENIED without prejudice; Motion for Protective Order DENIED; Infringement contentions ordered supplemented. Thi ...

There has been a lot of discussion of the massive data set that Pete Warden has been collecting from Facebook and the initial visualization of American groupings of people, based on their friends and other profile information. He's going to be releasing this data for researchers tomorrow - all gear ...

The First Two Delaware Decisions. In the past two months, I have reported on decisions by two Delaware bankruptcy judges in the In re Washington Mutual, Inc. case and in In re Premier International Holdings, Inc. (aka, the Six Flags case), taking opposing views on whether Federal Rule of Bankruptcy ...

By John Christoffersen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn’t rule out negligence. The powerful explosion blew apa ...

Image via CrunchBaseAfter a two-month production delay, New York-based bookseller Barnes & Noble, Inc. expects its Nook electronic book reader to be available for purchase in most of its bookstores this week, Reuters reports.Until now, the rival to Amazon.com, Inc.'s Kindle reader could only be had ...

Are the general characteristics of a snowman a fit subject for judicial notice? The Second Circuit Court of Appeals says yes in the copyright infringement case of Eden Toys, Inc. v. Marshall Field & Company, 675 F.2d 498 (1982). The Court did a thorough job of comparing two snowman toys by dif ...

As she walked toward the supervisor's office, Tyson Foods employee Gwendolyn Miles says she slipped on a wet floor and fell. Miles claims a leak in the roof caused the floor to become a hazardous condition. Miles filed a personal injury lawsuit against Tyson Foods Inc. on Feb. 2 in the Marshall Div ...

IMPORTANT NOTE: To anyone who was planning on attending MI's live event on Capitol Hill this afternoon, at which we were to unveil the newest Trial Lawyers, Inc. report, Trial Lawyers, Inc.: K Street--A Report on the Litigation Lobby 2010,...