John Burns reports on a blogger defamation case in Ireland: A blogger has agreed a €100,000 settlement after libelling Niall Ó Donnchú, a senior civil servant, and his girlfriend Laura Barnes. It is the first time in Ireland that defamatory material on a blog has resulted in a pay-out. Barnes, an American book dealer, made…
Category: Court
Consumer Watchdog Urges Court To Reject Amended Google Books Deal
From their announcement of January 28th: Consumer Watchdog today filed a brief urging a federal court to reject the revised Google Books settlement because it is remains anticompetitive and violates both U.S. and international law. Though the original settlement was withdrawn and amended in the face of objections from the U.S. Justice Department, Consumer Watchdog…
England football captain John Terry loses privacy battle
Gordon Rayner and Martin Evans report: The “creeping” culture of secrecy in Britain’s courts was halted when a judge revoked a privacy injunction obtained by the England football captain John Terry. Mr Justice Tugendhat ruled that there were no grounds for a gagging order that prevented the disclosure that the £150,000-a-week Chelsea player and married…
Another Kids Zone ex-worker facing charges
Joe Callahan reports: Another former employee of the troubled Kids Zone USA day care center has been arrested. Authorities say she signed another woman’s name on several fire inspection reports, and once even hid from the fire inspector in a dark closet. Barbara Kyle, 39, who now lives in Atlanta, turned herself in at the…