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Business Insider Mark Hurd Legal Scandal Won't Screw HP Customers AfterallBusiness InsiderA judge has sided with HP in its lawsuit with Oracle and the big winners are the company's joint customers. A judge ruled that HP didn't trick Oracle into promising continued support for Itanium servers, as Oracle had been claiming.Judge Dismisses Oracle Fraud Claim [...]

Telegraph.co.uk Breast implant scandal: waive legal rights, clinic demandsTelegraph.co.ukOne of Britain's biggest users of faulty breast implants is making women sign away their rights to legal action if they want to take up its offer of cut-price replacements. The Hospital Group's £1500 offer to replace PIP implants, seen here, …and more » View full post on [...]

Scotland on Sunday PIP implant scandal: Scots urged to join legal battle over implantsScotland on SundayPhotograph: Jayne Wright UP TO 80 Scots women are planning to take legal action against private clinics refusing to remove the potentially dangerous breast implants at the centre of an international health scare. The women, fitted with French-made PIP …and [...]

The Guardian How News Group hid the phone-hacking scandalThe GuardianThe actor Jude Law received the highest disclosed payout of £130000 damages plus costs as payments totalling £640000 were made in 15 cases where the amounts were made public. Prescott received £40000, Bryant received £30000; Sadie Frost, Law's former …Phone hacking: Jude Law, Lord Prescott and [...]

BBC News Actor Jude Law gets $200K over phone-hacking scandalUSA TODAYBy Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY British actor Jude Law has received a $200000 payout over phone-hacking by media mogul Rupert Murdoch's now defunct tabloid News of the World, the BBC reports. The High Court today heard statements from 18 victims who …Phone hacking: Jude Law [...]

AFP Rupert Murdoch firm pays Jude Law $200000 in tabloid scandalmsnbc.comBritish actor Jude Law was among dozens of people who sued News Group Newspapers after their cellphone voicemails were allegedly hacked by the now-shuttered News of the World tabloid. LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company on Thursday …Phone hacking: Jude Law settles but costs [...]

Penn State University has announced that Cynthia Baldwin, who has held the position of general counsel, vice president and chief legal officer since January 2010, is stepping down from what the school calls a “transitional role” as the university’s first GC. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Telegraph.co.uk Breast implants scandal: clinics have 'legal duty'Telegraph.co.ukPrivate clinics which fitted women with faulty breast implants have a "straightforward" legal duty to rectify the problem, politicians and lawyers have said. Lawyers acting for women fitted with breast implants produced by Poly Implant Prothese (PIP) …Lansley 'planning legal action' against private clinics in PIP scandalHealthInvestorBreast implant [...]

Yorkshire Post Legal bill in miners' payouts scandal tops £1bnYorkshire PostTHE final legal bill for two controversial miners' compensation schemes has been revealed – at more than £1.2bn. Three legal firms pocketed more than £100m each in fees from the schemes, while another three collected more than £50m. … View full post on legal – [...]

For two former high-ranking officials implicated in the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal, a preliminary hearing set for Friday will likely mark the beginning of a probe into just how much a key state witness knew and just how much that witness did in response. View full post on Law.com – Newswire