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...bestsellers go, Dan Brown’s interesting novel is a no-brainer. As of last week, it has returned to the number one spot for hardcover fiction after an incredible 157 weeks on the list. A copyright/plagiarism lawsuit and a star-powered movie adaptation are now conspiring to keep the book awash in the media spotlight...
...BlackBerry device, owned by Research in Motion (RIM), of Waterloo, Ont., which had "CrackBerry" fans panicking. RIM coughed up $612.5 million to settle litigation brought by NTP Inc., despite the fact that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected all eight NTP patents that were the focus of the lawsuit. NTP is appealing the rejection, but RIM caved rather than face the potential of an injunction...
...1990s, Narain filed a lawsuit to force Delhi's buses, taxis and rickshaws to convert to cleaner-burning compressed natural gas (CNG). In July 1998, the Supreme Court ruled largely in her favor and adopted many of her proposals. It ordered a ban on leaded fuel, conversion of all diesel-powered buses to CNG and the scrapping of old diesel taxis and rickshaws. But busmakers and oil companies--supported by government ministers--objected loudly. So the court formed a committee, led by Lal and Narain, to enforce its judgment...
...enters the river through pipes containing both storm water and sewage spillover. The move, slated for completion by 2013, could “perhaps make the Charles River the cleanest river in the country,” Laskey said. This current cleanup effort is the result of a 1985 lawsuit for violation of the Clean Water Act of 1972, according to Ria Convery, the communications director for the MWRA. The MWRA was specifically created to undertake the court-order cleanup effort, Convery said. The goal is to raise the water quality so that swimming is possible throughout the year, said...
...Dubay and the center filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, which raises all kinds of confounding questions about rights and choice and what we really mean by equality, when we look at the social and biological roles played by men and women in the course of becoming parents. Feit argues that within a short window of time after discovering an unplanned pregnancy - he has proposed a month, but thinks a week might even be more appropriate - a man should have the right to terminate his legal and financial obligations to the child. "I'm not talking about fathers opting...