MetaFilter posts tagged with Lawsuit and Legal

Cover your ass.

Meatbomb — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:35:33 -0800

Avoid office party lawsuits: buy insurance and distribute the rules in advance; don't let them drink; no flirting; bring a recording device; no religious stuff; don't dance with staff members.

Have a safe holiday.

When grown adults act like children.

insomnia_lj — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:51:48 -0800

Kinderstart sues Google to get a higher page ranking. Why on earth should Google be obligated to give another search engine access to their proprietary page ranking methods, unless the goal is for Kinderstart to either steal or play games with Google's ranking methods... again?

Pay It Forward.

nakedcodemonkey — Fri, 04 Feb 2005 16:18:45 -0800

Pay It Forward. Rather than sharing in a fun night of drink, dance and cursing with their teenage pals, two girls make cookies for their neighbors . A surprise gift of oven-fresh cookies and homemade hearts decorated with "Have a great day!". Priceless, you say? Try $900.

RIAA: Stop, or we will sue

FearTormento — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:51:32 -0800

RIAA: Stop, or we will sue fresh from its victory against Verizon, the RIAA gears up to go head to head with individual users of P2P. Run and hide!

Tort reform, anyone?

magullo — Mon, 12 May 2003 06:41:57 -0800

In a dispute over a car worth less than $20,000, General Motors sank more than $82,000 in its own legal fees and ... lost. The judge said that average citizens need to feel free to take on automakers with deep pockets and awarded the plaintiff $108,000 in attorney fees in a warranty case.

Lynne Cheney parody draws White House ire

turbanhead — Thu, 06 Mar 2003 07:13:35 -0800

Lynne Cheney parody draws White House ire An Internet lampoon of Vice President Dick Cheney's wife is no laughing matter at the White House, which has asked a satirist to remove pictures of her - complete with red clown noses - from his Web site. But the New York Civil Liberties Union struck back Wednesday on behalf of John A. Wooden, 31, threatening a lawsuit to protect his First Amendment rights to parody the White House and Bush officials on his site, whitehouse.org.

Journalist Bill Wyman threatened with legal action for having same name as Rolling Stones member

stevenf — Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:08:44 -0800

Journalist Bill Wyman threatened with legal action for having same name as Rolling Stones member. Via Google News.

shauna — Tue, 17 Apr 2001 16:27:29 -0800

Apple lawyers target Mac Themes Project -- Apple has issued a cease and desist order against Mac Themes Project (MTP) for creating a theme editor. Apple claims the editor enables third parties to copy its copyrighted trademark themes by "improperly copying Apple's copyrighted software code and graphic files".

sandor — Thu, 12 Oct 2000 07:52:42 -0800

In other McDonald's news.... Not only is the story amusing, but the headline includes the words "Hot Pickle Burn," which is, undeniably, a great name for a band.

tdecius — Mon, 14 Feb 2000 12:07:57 -0800

Yahoo! is being sued. The plaintiffs claim that Yahoo!'s use of cookies violates Texas anti-stalking laws.