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U.S. CPSC
October 1, 2004 |
Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against CPSC A federal judge ruled that the family of a teenager who was shot with an airgun lacked standing to challenge a 2003 settlement with the gun's manufacturer.   |
U.S. CPSC
January 25, 2002 |
Court Upholds Fireworks Penalty Against Shelton Wholesale Inc. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld a $100,000 penalty against Shelton Wholesale Inc., of Eagleville, Mo., for importing fireworks that violated CPSC regulations... |
Fast Company
Neal Ungerleider |
Apple To Pay $450 Million In Settlement For Price Fixing E-Books The Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan voted 2-1 on Tuesday not to overturn a July 2013 ruling that found Apple had fixed e-book prices in collusion with five major publishing houses. |
PC World
November 1, 2002
Garretson & Ferranti |
Antitrust Decision: A Long Time in the Making Relive some of the key moments in the long battle between Microsoft and the Department of Justice. |
InternetNews
December 13, 2010 |
Judge Dismisses Allen's Massive Patent Lawsuit In a setback for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, a federal judge has dismissed his patent lawsuit charging eight prominent technology companies with infringement, though he is eligible to refile. |
U.S. CPSC
July 26, 2007 |
Tree Stand Manufacturer Sued For Late Reporting of Injuries To the Government The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today the filing of a lawsuit Ardisam Inc. for delaying the report of serious injuries with the Big Foot and Lite Foot Series hunting tree stands. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2012
Kristen French |
Due Diligence: Step Back Rakoff, SEC-Citigroup Settlement Could Stand Judge Jed Rakoff may have overstepped his authority, said a federal appeals court today. In a procedural decision, the court wrote that the Securities and Exchange Commission has a good chance of overturning Rakoff's rejection of a $285 million SEC settlement with Citigroup. |
InternetNews
January 21, 2011 |
Verizon Files Lawsuit Against FCC Net Neutrality Rules Verizon, widely seen as one of the likely challengers to the new open Internet rules, maneuvers to win a hearing in a friendly forum: the D.C. Circuit. |
PC World
August 5, 2002
Joris Evers |
Microsoft Set to Act on Antitrust Settlement Software giant will carry out part of the proposed deal with the DOJ, even though judge has yet to approve it. |
Information Today
March 31, 2011
George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question. |
U.S. CPSC
November 29, 2006 |
CPSC Signs Cooperative Agreement with Japan to Improve Consumer Product Safety The agreement calls for an exchange of information, the development of training programs dealing with consumer product safety, and an exchange of safety professionals. |
U.S. CPSC
January 10, 2008 |
Hunting Tree Stand Manufacturer Agrees To Pay $420,000 Civil Penalty The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today that a Wisconsin-based tree stand manufacturer has agreed to pay the government a $420,000 civil penalty for failing to immediately report serious injuries to hunters with its Big Foot and Lite Foot series hunting tree stands. |
InternetNews
September 25, 2009 |
Judge's Order Keeps Google Books in Limbo New York judge postpones fairness hearing for controversial settlement agreement in response to DoJ objections. |
PC World
June 28, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Microsoft Faces New Antitrust Trial Appeals court upholds monopoly finding, but sends case to new judge to consider penalties... |
U.S. CPSC
August 5, 2009 |
Wagner Spray Tech and Techtronic Industries Agree To Pay $800,000 Civil Penalty for Delay in Reporting Overheating Battery Chargers The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today that Wagner Spray Tech Corp. and Techtronic Industries Co. LTD have agreed to pay an $800,000 civil penalty. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2010 |
DoJ Still Wary About Google Book Settlement Federal attorneys say amended settlement still doesn't address fundamental antitrust and copyright concerns. |
U.S. CPSC
January 28, 2011 |
Raynor Marketing Agrees to $390,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Defective Office Chairs The settlement resolves CPSC staff allegations that Raynor Marketing Ltd. was aware of a defect involving office chairs it sold to consumers, as well incidents and injuries, yet the firm failed to report immediately to CPSC as required by federal law. |
Information Today
September 16, 2014
George H. Pike |
Federal Court Holds 'Browsewrap' Agreement Unenforceable In a decision that raises questions about the legality of "browsewrap" agreements on ecommerce websites, a California court ruled that a browsewrap agreement in the form of a hyperlink to a separate webpage is not enforceable. |
U.S. CPSC
November 1, 2004 |
Federal Court Upholds Reporting Requirement for Companies The court ruled unanimously that companies who fail to abide by the reporting requirement can be held liable to pay substantial civil penalties. |
U.S. CPSC
January 29, 2002 |
Court Affirms that Companies Must Report Hazardous Products Immediately to CPSC A U.S. district judge has affirmed that companies must report immediately to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) certain information that their products could cause injury or death... |
Reason
July 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Hello to Arms In response to a lawsuit organized and financed by Cato Institute legal scholar Robert Levy, the D.C. Circuit panel rejected the collective-right theory as historically implausible and inconsistent with the rest of the Constitution. |
U.S. CPSC
August 6, 2008 |
Nine Firms Agree To Pay More Than $350,000 in Civil Penalties For Failing To Timely Report Drawstrings In Children's Outerwear The U.S. CPSC announced that nine firms have agreed to pay a total of $355,000 in civil penalties for failing to report that their children's hooded sweatshirts, jackets, or sweaters were sold with drawstrings at the hood and neck. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2010 |
HP Buries Hatchet With Oracle in Hurd Case HP and Oracle settle lawsuit over departing CEO Mark Hurd, agreeing to a forfeiture of millions of dollars in stock options. |
Information Today
December 19, 2011
George H. Pike |
Class Action Filed in Google Books Case The long- delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. |
Information Today
October 30, 2008 |
Google Reaches Settlement Agreement with Publishers and Authors The settlement would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search. |
Registered Rep.
February 25, 2011
Jerry Gleeson |
Wells Fargo Settles Sex Discrimination Claims For $32 Million Wells Fargo Advisors has tentatively agreed to a $32 million settlement of a federal class-action gender discrimination lawsuit brought in 2009 by three women financial advisors who worked at its legacy Wachovia Securities brokerage. |
Information Today
October 11, 2012
George H. Pike |
Google's Settlement With Publishers Does Not Resolve All Library Project Issues After more than 7 years of litigation, Google and The Association of American Publishers reached a settlement over Google's ongoing Library Project to scan books from public and academic libraries and make the content available over Google. |
The Motley Fool
March 29, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Another Big Problem for Wal-Mart The latest in Wal-Mart's plethora of problems has taken the company all the way to the Supreme Court. A proposed class action lawsuit would pit more than a million female employees against the corporate giant. |
U.S. CPSC
September 8, 2009 |
Kohl's Department Stores Agrees to Pay $425,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Drawstrings in Children's Sweatshirts The U.S. CPSC announced today that Kohl's Department Stores Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $425,000 to resolve allegations that Kohl's knowingly failed to report to CPSC immediately, as required by federal law, that children's hooded sweatshirts it sold had drawstrings at the neck. |
Information Today
October 28, 2014
George H. Pike |
Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision A federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. |
Information Today
September 24, 2009 |
Google Book Search Settlement Hearing to Be Postponed On Sept. 22, the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked the federal court to postpone the scheduled Oct. 7 hearing to give them time to work with the U.S. Department of Justice so that the parties can amend the Settlement Agreement. |
U.S. CPSC
December 3, 2010 |
Winter Bee Agrees to $200,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Drawstrings in Children's Sweatshirts The penalty settlement, which has been accepted provisionally by the Commission, provides that Winter Bee must pay $40,000 of the $200,000 penalty. |
U.S. CPSC
January 23, 2002 |
Houston Businessman Pleads Guilty To Making False Statements To CPSC Chuck Bai-Fun Chen, a 49-year-old Houston, Texas, businessman, pleaded guilty to felony charges that he made a false statement to a CPSC investigator and he imported merchandise into the United States by means of false statements... |
InternetNews
November 16, 2009 |
Google Books Still Faces Criticism After Revision Google submitted to a federal court a revised version of a controversial settlement agreement with two author and publisher groups that would make millions of out-of-print books available online. Opponents of the deal argue that the changes are more cosmetic than substantive. |
U.S. CPSC
August 5, 2009 |
Ross Stores Agrees To Pay $500,000 Civil Penalty For Failing To Report Drawstrings In Children's Outerwear The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today that Ross Stores Inc., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $500,000 for failing to report to CPSC immediately, as required by federal law, that children's hooded sweatshirts it sold had drawstrings at the neck. |
U.S. CPSC
August 10, 2011 |
Perfect Fitness to Pay $425,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Fall Injury Hazard with Exercise Equipment CPSC staff alleges that Perfect Fitness concluded in June 2008 that its exercise equipment was defective following re-testing of the handle design. |
Registered Rep.
January 4, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Former Morgan Stanley Exec Sues for Age Discrimination Morgan Stanley is facing a discrimination lawsuit by a former managing director who claims he was fired because of his age. |
U.S. CPSC
September 8, 2009 |
Firms Agree to Pay $85,000 in Civil Penalties for Failing to Report Drawstrings in Children's Outerwear The U.S. CPSC announced today that Maran Inc. and K.S. Trading Corp. have agreed to pay a total of $85,000 in civil penalties to resolve allegations that the firms knowingly failed to report to CPSC immediately that children's hooded sweatshirts or jackets they sold had drawstrings at the neck. |
U.S. CPSC
November 29, 2001 |
Icon Pays $500,000 Civil Penalty for Delay in Reporting Exercise Equipment Hazard The government charged Icon with failing to report serious safety hazards associated with home exercise equipment. Consumers should stop using the Weider Shape Glider, the Weider Power Glide, and the Weslo Shape Trainer immediately. |
U.S. CPSC
October 18, 2004 |
CPSC Invites Public Comments on Voluntary Standards Activities and Research Reports CPSC wants to open staff activities for public review and comment, making the agency more transparent and obtaining public input before CPSC staff positions are finalized. |
InternetNews
May 21, 2007
Roy Mark |
Supreme Court: No Telco Conspiracy Justices rule lawsuit failed to prove sufficient evidence that Baby Bells conspired to limit competition. |
U.S. CPSC
March 2, 2010 |
Daiso To Pay $2 Million Civil Penalty for Violations of Federal Safety Laws and Must Stop Importing Children's Products and Toys Into U.S. Due to alleged violations of federal safety laws, the company must now demonstrate to the Commission that it has sufficient knowledge of and is in compliance with CPSC safety standards and testing requirements. |
U.S. CPSC
December 8, 2010 |
Four Fireworks Firms Agree to $100,000 Civil Penalty for Importing Violative Fireworks The U.S. CPSC announced today that Jake's Fireworks Inc. and its affiliated companies have agreed to pay a $100,000 civil penalty for importing consumer fireworks that failed to comply with federal fireworks regulations. |
U.S. CPSC
July 5, 2011 |
Viking Range Corporation Agrees to $450,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Defective Refrigerators The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced today that Viking Range Corporation, of Greenwood, Miss., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $450,000. |
Information Today
November 23, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Here We Go Again! The Revised Google Book Settlement Last week, when Google and its someday-soon ex-litigants filed a revised settlement agreement with the court, the media coverage proved equally feverish. |
| AskMen.com |
Wal-Mart Case Has there ever been a worse time to be an employee in America? |
U.S. CPSC
September 11, 2007 |
U.S. and Chinese Product Safety Agencies Announce Agreement To Improve The Safety of Imported Toys and Other Consumer Products The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced an agreement with its product safety counterparts in the Chinese government aimed at stopping the use of lead paint in the manufacture of toys and addressing other product safety issues. |
U.S. CPSC
September 8, 2010 |
Pro-Pac Distributing Corp. Agrees to Pay $125,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Drawstrings in Children's Sweatshirts The U.S. CPSC announced that Pro-Pac Distributing Corp. has agreed to pay a civil penalty in the amount of $125,000 for knowingly failing to report to CPSC immediately that two different children's hooded sweatshirts it imported and distributed had drawstrings at the neck. |
U.S. CPSC
August 3, 2011 |
Black & Decker Agrees to $960,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Defective Grasshog XP Weed Trimmer/Edgers The U.S. CPSC announced that Black & Decker has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $960,000 to resolve allegations that Black & Decker knowingly failed to report several safety defects and hazards with the Grasshog XP immediately to CPSC. |
U.S. CPSC
March 9, 2011 |
Ms. Bubbles Agrees to Pay $40,000 Civil Penalty for Failing to Report Drawstrings on Children's Jackets The penalty agreement settles staff allegations that the firm knowingly failed to report to the CPSC immediately, as required by federal law, that its children's hooded jackets were sold with drawstrings through the hood. |
