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Reason June 2005 Jacob Sullum |
Suing Sodium A lawsuit filed in February demands that the FDA treat salt as an additive instead of an ingredient, a step that would make it possible to impose reductions in salt content on food manufacturers. But is it necessary from a health standpoint?  |
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Apple Settles iPod Battery Claim Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the rechargeable battery in its popular iPod.  |
Managed Care May 2005 Michael S. Victoroff |
Class Action Suit: Windfall or Just Wind? Is using the tort system and class action lawsuits the best way to solve problems between business professionals? That and $54.37 can go toward the creation of a foundation to bring about meaningful organizational change.  |
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses.  |
InternetNews May 31, 2005 Roy Mark |
Ban Wine Sales Across The Board? A Supreme Court decision allows states to make an all-or-nothing choice about online wine sales.  |
InternetNews May 27, 2005 Roy Mark |
No Summer Break From The RIAA The music industry targets lawsuits at students using high-speed, second-generation university networks to swap music files.  |
BusinessWeek June 6, 2005 Eamon Javers |
Tough Tactics -- Against A Victim Why are Wyndham and AIG taking a hard line in a child molestation case?  |
The Motley Fool May 26, 2005 Rich Duprey |
Google Searches the Classics Search engine's ambitious plans to digitize the works of three libraries raises copyright worries.  |
ifeminists May 25, 2005 Wendy McElroy |
Case Could Freeze Sperm Donation A state supreme court is considering a legal appeal that could set wide-reaching precedent for both child support policy and fertility clinics in the U.S. The tangled personal circumstances of this situation constitute a legal nightmare and the sort of 'hard' case that makes bad law.  |
InternetNews May 24, 2005 Roy Mark |
House Closes Counterfeiting Loopholes The U.S. House voted to close two loopholes in federal law that allow counterfeiters to avoid prosecution and profit from illegal activities.  |
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