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| Mabo v Queensland |
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Mabo v Queensland (No 2) (commonly known as Mabo) was a landmark Australian court case which was decided by the High Court of Australia on June 3, 1992. The effective result of the judgement was to make irrelevant the declaration of terra nullius,...
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Satan (Hebrew: הַשָׂטָן ha-Satan ("the accuser"); Persian "sheytân"; Arabic: الشيطان al-Shaitan ("the adversary") - both from the Semitic root: Ś-Ṭ-N) is an embodiment of antagonism that originates from the Abrahamic religions, being traditionally...
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| Liebeck v. McDonald's Corp. |
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, also known as the "McDonald's coffee case," is a 1994 product liability lawsuit that became a flashpoint in the debate in the U.S. over tort reform after a jury awarded $2.86 million to a woman who burned herself...
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| Wik Peoples v Queensland |
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Wik Peoples v The State of Queensland (commonly known as the Wik decision) is a decision of the High Court of Australia delivered on 23 December 1996 on whether statutory leases extinguish native title rights. The court found that the statutory...
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| R. v. Oakes |
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R. v. Oakes [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103 is a case decided by the Supreme Court of Canada which established the famous Oakes test, an analysis of the limitations clause (Section 1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms that allows reasonable...
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| Walter v Lane | Walter v. Lane |
Walter v. Lane [1900] AC 539, (House of Lords) — a precedent in the Commonwealth countries that recognized fixation could be a determining factor in copyright determinations.
A speech is given in public by a politician. A newspaper hires skilled...
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| Pacific Film Laboratories v Commissioner of Tax |
In Pacific Film Laboratories v. Commissioner of Tax (1970) 121 CLR 154, (Australia) Windeyer J defined copyright: "It is not a right in an existing thing. It is a negative right, as it has been called, a power to prevent the making of a physical...
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| Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc. |
Itar-Tass Russian News Agency v. Russian Kurier, Inc. 153 F.3d 82 (2d Cir. 1998), was a copyright case about the Russian language weekly Russian Kurier in New York City that had copied and published various materials from Russian newspapers and news...
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| Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation |
Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation (280 F.3d 934 (CA9 2002) withdrawn, re-filed at 336 F.3d 811(CA9 2003)) is a U.S. court case between a commercial photographer and a search engine company. During the case ownership of Arriba Soft changed to Sorceron...
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| Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin |
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Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin Co., 252 F. 3d 1165 (11th Cir. 2001), opinion at 268 F.3d 1257, was a case decided by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit against the owner of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind, vacating an...
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| Dow Jones & Co. Inc. v Gutnick |
Dow Jones & Co. Inc. v Gutnick was an Internet defamation case heard in the High Court of Australia, decided on 10 December 2002. The 28 October 2000 edition of Barron's Online, published by Dow Jones, contained an article entitled "Unholy Gains" in...
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| Donoghue v. Stevenson |
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Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 was a decision of the House of Lords that established the modern form of the tort of negligence in English and Welsh law, and delict in Scots law, by setting out general principles whereby one person would owe...
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| Silkin v Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd | Silkin v. Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd. |
In Silkin v. Beaverbrook Newspapers Ltd., [1958] 1 W.L.R. 743, a House of Lords case, the famous speech of Lord Diplock states succinctly the principle that freedom of speech is subject to the law and like any other freedom there is a balancing. In...
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| RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd. |
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RWDSU v. Dolphin Delivery Ltd., [1986] 2 S.C.R. 573, is the seminal Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms decision that states that the Charter applies to governmental action, and to the common law except where matters are solely between private...
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| R. v. Park |
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R. v. Park [1995] 2 S.C.R. 836, is a Supreme Court of Canada case dealing with the mistaken belief defence, i.e. that the accused had an honest, but mistaken-belief that he had consent to engage in sexual relations with the complainant and the role...
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| Carter v. Helmsley-Spear Inc. |
Carter v. Helmsley-Spear, Inc. 861 F. Supp. 303 (S.D.N.Y. 1994), rev'd 71 F.3d 77 (2d Cir. 1995), cert. denied 116 S. Ct. 1824 (1996).
This an early case of authors attempting to exercisers their moral rights under the Visual Artists Rights Act ...
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| SCO v. IBM |
SCO v. IBM is a civil lawsuit in the United States District Court of Utah. The SCO Group asserted that there are legal uncertainties regarding the use of the Linux operating system due to alleged violations of IBM's Unix licenses in the development...
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| Hitzig v. Canada |
Hitzig v. Canada is a 2003 civil case in which challenged the constitutionality of the Marijuana Medical Access Regulations (MMAR), now the Medical Marijuana Access Division. MMAR provided for exemptions from the law for approved medicinal users...
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| SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit: Press coverage |
This page lists news articles, columns and interviews pertaining to the SCO v. IBM.
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| Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. |
Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. (194 F.3d 1211 (11th Cir. 1999)) is a United States court case that involved a longstanding dispute about the public domain copyright status of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech, known by...
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| Macmillan Co. v. King |
Macmillan Co. v. King, 223 F. 862 (D. Mass 1914) was a copyright infringement case brought by a publisher of a two-volume economics textbook written by a Harvard University professor in the United States District Court for the District of...
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| V. K. Ratliff |
V. K. Ratliff is the sanguine sewing machine salesman in William Faulkner's Snopes trilogy of novels.
He mainly sells sewing machines, but also on occasion parlor organs, radios, and televisions. He grew up on a farm his father rented from Anse...
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| Carafano v. Metrosplash.com |
Carafano v. Metrosplash.com, Inc., 339 F.3d 1119 (9th Cir. 2003), is an American legal case dealing with the protection provided an internet service provider under the Communications Decency Act (CDA) United States Code Title 47 section 230(c)(1)....
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| R. V. Jones Intelligence Award |
The R. V. Jones Intelligence Award was created by the CIA in 1993 to honour those whose accomplishments mirror in substance and style those of R. V. Jones, to wit: "Scientific acumen applied with art in the cause of freedom".
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| Bernstein v. United States |
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Bernstein v. United States is a set of court cases brought by Daniel J. Bernstein challenging restrictions on the export of encryption software outside the United States.
The case was first brought in 1995, when Bernstein was a student at University...
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| Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp. |
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical...
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| Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology |
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Step-Saver Data Systems, Inc. v. Wyse Technology,939 F.2d 91 (3rd Cir. 1991) was case in which the legality and history of computer EULAs was explored. The court noted, "When these form licenses were first developed for software, it was, in large...
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| MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc. |
MAI Systems Corp. v. Peak Computer, Inc., 991 F.2d 511 (9th Cir. 1993), is a seminal case in United States copyright law. One of the primary questions that this case addresses is the question of whether or not loading a program into RAM makes a copy...
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| Goodridge v. Department of Public Health |
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Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health, 798 N.E.2d 941 (Mass. 2003), was a landmark state appellate court case dealing with same-sex marriage in Massachusetts.
In a 50-page, 4–3 ruling delivered on November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial...
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| R v Bowden |
In R v Bowden [2000] 2 All ER 418 the English Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal against conviction on a point of law. It concerned the making of an indecent photograph of a child.
Bowden had been convicted at the Crown Court in Cambridge on 12...
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| USL v. BSDi |
USL v. BSDi was a lawsuit brought in the United States in 1992 by Unix System Laboratories against Berkeley Software Design, Inc and the Regents of the University of California over intellectual property related to UNIX. The case was settled out of...
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| Harvey v. Horan |
Harvey v. Horan is a 2001 federal court case dealing with felons' rights of access to DNA testing. The Eastern Virginia District Court originally found that felons were entitled access to DNA testing on potentially exculpatory evidence, but this...
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| Egan v. Canada |
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Egan v. Canada, [1995] 2 S.C.R. 513, 1995 SCC 49 was one of a trilogy of equality rights cases published by a very divided Supreme Court of Canada in the spring of 1995. It stands today as a landmark Supreme Court case which established that sexual...
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| Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc. |
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Grand Upright Music, Ltd. v. Warner Brothers Records, Inc. |
Grand Upright Music, Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc., 780 F.Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1991), was a copyright case heard by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The court granted an injunction against the defendants to...
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| Briggs v. Elliott |
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Briggs et al. v. Elliott et al., 342 U.S. 350 (1952), commonly Briggs v. Elliott, was the first filed of the four cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court officially overturned racial...
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| Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County |
Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (Docket number: Civ. A. No. 1333; Case citation: 103 F. Supp. 337 (1952)) was one of the four cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education, the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, in...
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| Gebhart v. Belton |
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Gebhardt v. Belton, 33 Del. Ch. 144, 87 A.2d 862 (Del. Ch. 1952), aff'd, 91 A.2d 137 (Del. 1952), was a case decided by the Delaware Court of Chancery in 1952 and affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court in the same year. Gebhart was one of the four...
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| MacCormick v. Lord Advocate |
MacCormick v Lord Advocate (1953 SC 396) was a Scottish legal action in which John MacCormick (the Rector of the University of Glasgow) and Ian Hamilton (then part of the Glasgow University Scottish Nationalist Association) contested the right of...
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| Tape v. Hurley |
Tape v. Hurley, 66 Cal. 473 (1885) was a landmark court case in the California Supreme Court.
Mamie Tape was a Chinese American born in San Francisco. Her parents, Joseph Tape (1852–1935), and Mary McGladery Tape (1857–1934), were both immigrants...
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| Mendez v. Westminister School District |
Mendez v. Westminster School District 64 F.Supp. 544 (1946) was a court case in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that Orange County, California could not segregate Mexican-American children into separate schools....
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| California v. Freeman |
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California v. Freeman was the criminal prosecution of Harold Freeman, a producer and director of pornographic films, by the U.S. state of California. Freeman was arrested in 1987 for hiring adult actors, which the prosecution interpreted as pimping,...
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| Central London Property Trust Ltd v. High Trees House Ltd |
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Central London Property Trust Ltd v High Trees House Ltd [1947] KB 130 (or the High Trees case) is an English contract law decision in the High Court. It reaffirmed the doctrine of promissory estoppel in contract law in England and Wales. Denning J...
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| Red Hat v. SCO |
The Red Hat v. SCO lawsuit - Red Hat filed suit against The SCO Group on August 4, 2003. Red Hat is asking for a permanent injunction against SCO's Linux campaign and a number of declaratory judgments that Red Hat has not violated SCO's copyrights....
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| SCO v. Novell |
SCO v. Novell is a lawsuit brought by the SCO Group against Novell.
In 2003 the SCO Group initiated a campaign to get Linux users to pay licence fees to SCO claiming that unspecified SCO IP had been improperly included in Linux. As part of this...
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| SCO v. AutoZone |
AutoZone, a corporate user of Linux and former user of SCO OpenServer, was sued by The SCO Group on March 3, 2004. SCO claims AutoZone violated SCO's copyrights by using Linux.
The case is on hold pending the SCO v. IBM case.
This is just one of...
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| SCO v. DaimlerChrysler |
The SCO Group v. DaimlerChrysler was a lawsuit filed in the United States, in the state of Michigan. In December 2003, SCO sent a number of letters to Unix licensees. In these letters, SCO demanded that the licensees certify certain things regarding...
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| Francis v. Resweber |
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State of Louisiana Ex Rel. Francis v. Resweber, 329 U.S. 459 (1947), is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court was asked whether imposing capital punishment (the electric chair) a second time, after it failed in an attempt to execute Willie Francis...
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| People v. Collins |
The People of the State of California v. Collins was a 1968 jury trial in California, USA that made notorious forensic use of mathematics and probability.
Bystanders to a robbery in Los Angeles testified that the perpetrators had been a black male,...
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| Buchwald v. Paramount |
Buchwald v. Paramount (1990) was a breach of contract lawsuit filed and decided in California in which humorist and writer Art Buchwald alleged that Paramount Pictures stole his script idea and turned it into the 1988 movie Coming to America....
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| Whitehouse v Lemon | Whitehouse v. Lemon |
Whitehouse v. Lemon is a 1976 court case involving the blasphemy law in the United Kingdom.
James Kirkup's poem The Love that Dares to Speak its Name was published in the 3 June 1976 issue of Gay News. The poem, written from the viewpoint of a Roman...
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| Donaldson v Beckett | Donaldson v. Beckett |
Donaldson v Beckett, 2 Brown's Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257 (1774); 17 Cobbett's Parl. Hist. 953 (1813) is the ruling by the British House of Lords that denied the continued existence of a perpetual common law...
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| Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner |
Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner, 439 U.S. 522 (1979) was a United States Supreme Court ruling which changed the way companies are allowed to depreciate their unsold inventory. Thor’s inventory was overestimated, and was written down to scrap...
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| Roberts v. Boston |
Roberts v. Boston, 59 Mass. (5 Cush.) 198 (1850), was a lawsuit seeking to end racial discrimination in Boston public schools. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled in favor of Boston, finding no constitutional basis for the suit. The case...
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| Benner v. Oswald |
Benner v. Oswald, 592 F.2d 174 (3d Cir. 1974), was a case about the voting rights of undergraduate students at a public American university.
The board of trustees for the Pennsylvania State University was selected through a process involving several...
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| Gott v. Berea College |
Gott v. Berea College (156 Ky. 376, 161 S.W. 204 [1913]) was a case decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
A restaurant owned by Gott in Berea across the road from Berea College was frequented by students of the college. The college, for...
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| Piscataway v. Taxman |
Piscataway School Board v. Taxman, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996) was a racial discrimination case begun in 1989. The school board of Piscataway, New Jersey needed to eliminate a teaching position from a high schools Business Education department....
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| Universal v. Reimerdes |
Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Reimerdes, 111 F. Supp. 2d 294 (S.D.N.Y. 2000), aff'd, 273 F.3d 429 (2d Cir. 2001), was the first test of the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a United States federal law. The plaintiffs sought...
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| Andersen v. King County |
Andersen v. King County, 138 P.3d 963 (Wash. 2006) — formerly Andersen v. Sims — is a case filed by eight Washingtonian lesbian and gay couples, who sued King County and the State of Washington for denying them marriage licenses under the state’s...
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| Holt v. Sarver |
Holt v. Sarver (Arkansas) is the first in a series of American common law cases that have found entire state prison systems in violation of prisoners' constitutional rights by providing cruel and unusual punishment. In Holt v. Sarver, Arkansas'...
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| Chamberlain v. Skylink |
The Chamberlain Group, Inc. v. Skylink Technologies, Inc., 381 F.3d 1178 (Fed. Cir. 2004) is a legal case heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concerning the anti-trafficking provision of the Digital Millennium...
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