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After many months of doing virtually nothing, Hasbro, maker of the board game Scrabble, finally moved today to shut down a hugely popular, rogue Scrabble website. The giant game company filed suit against the creators of Scrabulous in federal court in New York City Thursday morning, asserting copyright infringement and demanding that the counterfeit game be immediately taken down...
Blecher said he expected that Facebook - which he said had been notified before the suit was filed - would comply with Hasbro's order to scrap the app. Scrabulous was still up by late morning P.T.; a spokesman said Facebook would issue a statement shortly...
...major change, not a minor thing," says Daniel Polsby, dean of George Mason University School of Law, in Arlington, Va. After teaching at Northwestern Law for 23 years, Polsby has asked his faculty to take a look at offering a similarly accelerated program and thinks other schools may follow suit. "The idea is generally a good one and there is going to be demand for it, but how much I don't know," he says...
...antibiotics. But they vetoed corrective surgery that would have prolonged her life and left her severely retarded. Suits filed by a Vermont right-to-life attorney who had no direct interest in the case and by HHS, acting on the basis of the Baby Doe rules, were dismissed. Ultimately, the American Hospital Association and other groups sued to challenge the validity of the regulations and end what they considered harassment. This suit was subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Writing for four of the Justices,* Justice John Paul Stevens noted that federal law ''does not authorize the Secretary...
...Dennis Levine insider-trading scandal, the worst in history. Paranoia swept the close-knit investment community a week after Levine, 33, a former managing director at the firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of income tax evasion, securities fraud and perjury and settled a civil suit charging that he had made $12.6 million in illegal stock- market profits on corporate takeovers. A Securities and Exchange Commission investigation was in full swing, along with criminal investigations by U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. No official accusations were leveled, but Ira Lee Sorkin, the SEC's New York director, disclosed...