Law
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. should have to pay for injuries sustained by a Colorado family when the battery of a Galaxy S7 cellphone produced by the Korean electronics maker allegedly overheated and caught fire, according to a complaint removed to federal court on Friday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, accused of participating in controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s, failed to show that their status as corporations protects them from liability under the Alien Tort Statute, a Maryland federal judge said Thursday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday said it would allow the federal government to participate in oral arguments in a copyright dispute between tech companies Oracle Corp. and Rimini Street Inc. that could clear up a circuit split over how costs are awarded in such cases… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A jury verdict that awarded $145 million to licensing firm WiLAN Inc. after its victory in a patent dispute with Apple Inc. was slashed to $10 million Thursday by a California federal judge, who questioned WiLAN’s methodology for calculating damages… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has unrecused himself from a dispute between computer corporation Oracle and third-party technical support company Rimini Street Inc. that offers the high court an opportunity to resolve a circuit split over how costs are awarded in copyright cases… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 