It appears as though Richard C. Davis was successful in proving A&E owed him royalties based on a verbal contract.

Check out Flip This Lawsuit for new discovery documents online for the Trademark Properties v. A&E Television Networks court case.

Kevin Poulsen of Wired has a great article that shows the result of a PERL script he created to cross reference MySpace profiles with the National Sex Offender Public Registry. He’s idetified over 700 known sex offenders already and assisted in one arrest. Just another example how free software (PERL) can enhance and protect our lives.
In May, I began an automated search of MySpace’s membership rolls for 385,932 registered sex offenders in 46 states, mined from the Department of Justice’s National Sex Offender Registry website — a gateway to the …

Rules it’s equivalent of reading newspaper, talking on phone

via Slashdot:
Kailash Nadh writes “The Internet archive, which has been storing snapshots of millions of webpages since 1996 has been sued by the firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey, Philadelphia. The firm was defending Health Advocate, a company in suburban Philadelphia that helps patients resolve health care and insurance disputes, against a trademark action brought by a similarly named competitor. In preparing the case, representatives of Earley Follmer used the Wayback Machine to turn up old Web pages – some dating to 1999 – originally posted by the plaintiff, Healthcare …

It seems that it’s every day I hear about a meth operation, but never heard of one like this before. PunditGuy has an article on a Grays Harbor County Deputy Sheriff who shows a class how to make crystal meth.
It is supposed to be part chemistry class and part drug enforcement, however I think they could have found a better way to get their point across, maybe using chemistry to detect narcotics? Of course the article goes on to say that no recipe is disclosed and it’s just a generalization. …

Sure you’ve read these reports already:
The Atlanta Journal and Constitution reported:

The cost of the search for runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks is likely to be substantial, authorities said Sunday.
The number of local, state and federal agencies participating in the four-day effort to find the 32-year-old woman may make an exact accounting difficult, but police in Duluth said Sunday they have begun calculating the hours of overtime and expenses. Most of the Gwinnett city’s 47 uniformed officers and all four of the city’s detectives worked overtime to find Wilbanks, Maj. Don Woodruff …

AppleInsider is reporting that Apple Computer has been slapped with a lawsuit by Tiger Direct, the mail order comuter retailer, for allegedly infringing its trademark with the new Mac OS X “Tiger” operating system scheduled to be released on Friday.
Unfortunatly for Tiger Direct, the preliminary injunction hearing is slated for Tuesday, May 3, which is a few days after the official release date of OS X Tiger.
This is just plain stupid; I hope it gets squashed and Tiger Direct loses a lot of money over it.

Like there was any other option… He’s getting off easy in my opinion.
Well, unless you’re his attorney:
Defense attorney Maj. David Coombs told jurors that a sentence of life without parole would allow Akbar to be treated for mental illness and possibly rehabilitated.
He’s right, there is a good treatment program available for him which is surprisingly cost effective and has a 100% success rate, it’s called death by lethal injection. Let’s stop wasting time and let the healing begin!
From Fox News:
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — A military jury sentenced a soldier to …

Wow, we’re wasting money with all this abstinence teaching or free condoms… Let’s just give kids baseball bats!
I was just reading an article at FindLaw coverage on this case from Michigan .
The pregnant individual in this case – whom I will call “Janie Roe” – allegedly asked her boyfriend Johnnie to help terminate her pregnancy by hitting her in the abdomen. Reportedly, Johnnie went along with the plan, the six-month-old fetus died, and the couple buried the body.
I think the proper way to end this was with them both …