News tagged with jury
Google cleared in Oracle suit on patents (Update)
Google won a major victory Wednesday as jurors sided with the Internet giant in a high-stakes court battle over patents with business software titan Oracle.
May 23, 2012 |
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Judge scolds attorneys in Oracle vs. Google patent trial
The judge presiding over a patent trial pitting Oracle against Google scolded rival attorneys on Monday as deliberating jurors grappled with subtleties of references in computer software code.
May 21, 2012 |
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Jury deadlocks on key issue in Google-Oracle trial
A federal jury failed to agree on a pivotal issue in Oracle's copyright-infringement case against Google, blunting the impact of its finding that Google relied on another company's technology to build its ...
May 08, 2012 |
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All-white jury pools convict black defendants 16 percent more often than whites
Juries formed from all-white jury pools in Florida convicted black defendants 16 percent more often than white defendants, a gap that was nearly eliminated when at least one member of the jury pool was black, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 20, 2012 |
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Internet thieves piggyback on legitimate users
Theft of Internet service is on the rise, and experts say only a few of the culprits are being caught.
Apr 10, 2012 |
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The mathematics of jury size: Statistical model shows several interesting properties of US jury configurations
Could different jury sizes improve the quality of justice? The answers are not clear, but mathematicians are analyzing juries to identify potential improvements.
Mar 26, 2012 |
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How to get more Jurors to the courthouse
Citizens inclined to ignore a jury duty summons are more likely to respond when reminded that failure to appear could result in fines or jail time, according to a UC Riverside study.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 14, 2012 |
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Four Canadians indicted on US gambling charges
US authorities seized the gambling website Bodog on Tuesday and announced the indictment of four Canadians on charges of illegal sports betting and money laundering, including founder Calvin Ayre.
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Romanian accused of hacking NASA-JPL computers
(AP) -- The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Juror in Microsoft case at peace with decision
(AP) -- The lone holdout juror who prevented a Utah company from getting as much as $1.2 billion from one-time rival Microsoft Corp. for alleged antitrust violations says he's at peace with his decision.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Jurors deadlock in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft
(AP) -- A federal jury on Friday failed to reach a verdict in a Utah company's $1 billion antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. in a case so important to the computer giant that it put Bill Gates on the ...
Dec 17, 2011 |
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Suspected hacker held over Kiss frontman web attack
A 24-year-old man allegedly linked to the Anonymous "hacktivist" group was arrested Tuesday over a cyber attack on a website run by the frontman of heavy rock group Kiss, the FBI said.
Dec 13, 2011 |
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December court date for Manning in WikiLeaks case
Bradley Manning, the US soldier alleged to have passed a trove of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, will have a first hearing before a military court next month, the Pentagon said.
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Calif. jury rejects Rambus antitrust claims
(AP) -- A California jury denied Rambus Inc. billions of dollars in damages as it determined that chip-makers Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. didn't conspire to fix prices of memory chips in order to ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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As Assange awaits ruling, WikiLeaks faces its fate
(AP) -- As Julian Assange awaits a judge's extradition verdict, it could be WikiLeaks' very future that's at stake.
Nov 01, 2011 |
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