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Vatican stops fake priest from taking confession: judge

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - A man posing as a priest was prevented from taking confessions in St Peter's Basilica, Vatican judge Gianluigi Marrone said in an interview published on Saturday.

Vatican stops fake priest from taking confession: judge

VATICAN CITY (AFP) - A man posing as a priest was prevented from taking confessions in St Peter's Basilica,

Fake priest caught in confessional

Confessionalblog385x185_2 Bess writes: A bizarre case of identity fraud has surfaced in the Vatican: the Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, reports that a fake priest was caught in St Peter’s Basilica attempting to enter the confessional box. The 30-year-old man was subsequently sentenced in a special Vatican court. And, according to this morning's papers, the sentencing judge discovered he was a serial offender. Gianluigi Marrone, one a handful of judges employed at the court, explained: "He had priest's robes on but to the expert eye of our security staff he raised suspicions, He was acting strangely and so he was stopped and checked. He had an identity card which said he was a priest but a quick check established it was bogus.

Fake priest caught out

Vatican - A man posing as a priest was prevented from taking confessions in St Peter's Basilica, Vatican judge Gianluigi Marrone said in an interview published on Saturday.

Judge rules for eBay on fake jewellery

US-based online auction services provider eBay has had an important legal win in a court case involving fake jewellery. District Court of New York judge Richard Sullivan has found that claimant Tiffany was wrong to put the onus for policing the trade in counterfeit goods on eBay, and noted that auctions for fake jewellery were cancelled immediately when Tiffany alerted eBay to them. The legal team for the luxury goods brand has signalled an appeal may be lodged. eBay had previously lost in a similar matter, when a French court ruled in favour of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and ordered compensation of in excess of $US61m be paid to it by eBay

Judge Trips Up Settlement In Hot Coffee Class-Action

GamePolitics is reporting that a Judge has put another substantial hurdle in the Hot Coffee class-action case. Claiming that individuals involved in the suit could be affected differently by laws in their respective states, Judge Shirley Wohl Kram declared that this case could not be resolved by a single proceeding. "'Accordingly, the court decertifies the settlement class on the grounds that common issues do not predominate over individualized issues,' the judge wrote. The judge's latest decision undermines a settlement agreement reached between lawyers for purchasers of the game who contended they were offended by the hidden scenes, on the one hand, and lawyers for the game's makers, Take-Two Interactive Software and Rockstar Games."

Judge Orders Fake Online Pharmacy to Pay $15.4 Million

Saying they "dispensed deception," a federal judge in Atlanta has ordered the founders and operators of a now-defunct online pharmacy business to pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission $15.8 million for fraudulent claims associated with the drugs they peddled. In his order, U.S. District Judge Charles A. Pannell also found Dr. Terrill Mark Wright, a physician associated with the online pharmacies, liable for $15.4 million to compensate consumers for false advertising claims.

Judge may retry RIAA's Thomas case

A ruling in favor of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) may be overturned and set a precedent for file sharing, according to remarks made by the presiding judge in the case. District Judge Michael Davis now expresses doubts over a decision which fined defendant Jammie Thomas $222,000 for allegedly trading 24 songs through KaZaA, arguing that a closer review of the US Copyright Act used as the foundation of the case suggests that a retrial may be necessary. The Act requires actual proof of an illegal transfer rather than the simpler act of exposing the content through a public folder. Without the former evidence, the previous decision against Thomas may no longer hold weight, according to Judge Davis.

Phoney priest stopped from taking Vatican confessions

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EBay wins fake jewellery case

NEW YORK — EBay scored a major legal victory on Monday when a federal judge absolved it of taking more steps to police fake Tiffany jewellery sold on its website and held that brand owners are ultimately responsible for protecting their own trademarks.

Judge rules for eBay on fake jewellery

EBAY has scored an important victory in court, as a federal judge says companies such as jeweller Tiffany are responsible for policing their trademarks online, not auction platforms like eBay.

Let us judge Judge Hlophe's wine

This is a plea to Justice Minister Brigitte Mabandla to let Cape Judge President John Hlophe bottle and market his own wine.

Judge orders YouTube to hand over logs:

A US judge has ordered YouTube to disclose who watches which video clips and when.A US judge has ordered YouTube to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

Judge orders YouTube to hand over logs:

A US judge has ordered YouTube to disclose who watches which video clips and when.A US judge has ordered YouTube to disclose who watches which video clips and when.

Judge Rejects Class-Action in Video Game Sex Suit

A federal judge has put the brakes on a lawsuit filed over sex scenes buried in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. In a decision, United States District Judge Shirley Wohl Kram wrote that purchasers of the game could not be lumped together in a class action.

Judge Grants Medical Privacy Injunction

A federal judge in Ohio has granted a preliminary injunction against the city of Columbus, in response to a request from two dispatchers who claim that the police department's sick leave practices violate several privacy laws and the Constitution. Dispatchers Carrie Best and Cheri Bowman say that the department's paperwork procedures for absence-without-leave and sick leave put their medical information into the hands of supervisors, in violation of various federal laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act. The judge dismissed the city's defense, and concluded that both women were likely to prevail in obtaining a permanent injunction on the matter, noting that there's no compelling reason for the supervisor to have access to employees' medical information.

Microsoft creates its own Fake Steve for "i'm Initiative"

Fake Steve Jobs, also known as Daniel Lyons (see our interview with him), created a fake blog that quickly became a popular hit in the tech world. Microsoft decided to do something similar with a new blog by the name of i'm talkathon (RSS feed), except that author Parker Whittle is completely fictitious. The blog wasn't created just for the sake of entertainment: the goal is to promote the "i'm Initiative" (which in turn will promote Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Hotmail).

Judge suspends 'shock artist' trial amid criticism of website

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has suspended the obscenity trial of a Los Angeles porn distributor following a newspaper report that the judge had sexually explicit material on his own website.

Judge Rules Sprint Early Termination Fees Illegal

Antiglobalism writes to tell us that an Alameda County Judge has ruled against Sprint Nextel in a class-action lawsuit, awarding customers $18.2 million in restitution for early termination fees. "Though the decision could be appealed, it's the first in the country to declare the fees illegal in a state and could affect other similar lawsuits, with broad implications for the nation's fast-growing legions of cell phone users. The judge - who is overseeing several other suits against telecommunications companies that involve similar fees - also told the company to stop trying to collect $54.7 million from other customers who haven't yet paid the charges they were assessed. The suit said about 2 million Californians were assessed the fee."

Judge says Tiffany, not eBay, should police trademark

SAN FRANCISCO — Online auctioneer eBay (EBAY) scored a major court victory Monday when a federal judge ruled that Tiffany & Co. (TIF) failed to prove eBay was responsible for the sale of fake Tiffany jewelry.

Judge keeps MIT fare-hackers under cone of silence

The entire point of security research, unless one clings to the extremely dubious doctrine of "security through obscurity," is to shed light on vulnerabilities and flaws—except, apparently, if those flaws happen to be located within the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) subway system. Last Saturday, three MIT students who had planned to present information regarding flaws in the MBTA's ticket fare system were ordered not to do so by US District Judge Douglas Wood. Wood initially imposed a 10-day injunction, with a hearing scheduled for Tuesday, August 19. Yesterday, Judge George O'Toole reviewed the injunction order, but declined to lift it, opting instead to wait the full ten days and continue the hearing until Tuesday.

Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction

theodp writes "Judge Faith Hochberg has denied a preliminary injunction sought by the Programmers Guild to put a hold on a controversial 'emergency' rule change by the Department of Homeland Security to permit foreign students to work continuously in the US for two-and-a-half years after graduation without an H-1B visa. Hochberg indicated she failed to see how an increased labor supply could result in wage depression for engineers and computer workers. That seems disingenuous, since in Andaya v. Citizens Mortgage Corporation, Judge Hochberg recently saw first-hand how a US employer got away with paying an H-1B computer engineer as little as $15,000 to do a job with a 'prevailing wage rate' of $41,000. In that case, Hochberg ruled against Filipino H-1B visa holder Almira Andaya, arguing that 'nonpayment of wages as listed on the H-1B visa

Will The RIAA Sue Judge Kozinski For Sharing MP3s?

While judge Alex Kozinski is getting a ton of press for accidentally sharing pornographic images from his webserver, Justin Levine notes that the report concerning what was on the server also found music MP3s from musicians like Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Weird Al Yankovic. Levine wonders if the RIAA will now sue this federal judge as well. In fact, things could get tricky in that some research suggests not only was Kozinski storing MP3s, he may have actively been sharing some of those MP3s as well. That same link mentions that in one of many copyright infringement lawsuits concerning the company Perfect 10, Kozinski wrote a dissenting opinion suggesting that facilitating copyright infringement should be seen as infringement as well:

Federal Judge in DefCon Case Equates Speech with Hacking

LAS VEGAS -- Lawyers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation said a federal judge who granted a temporary restraining order on Saturday to halt a scheduled conference talk about security vulnerabilities came to "a very, very wrong conclusion." They said the judge's order constituted illegal prior restraint, which violated the speakers' First Amendment right to discuss important and legitimate academic research.

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