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...Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, the developers of Scrabulous, would comply and pull their knockoff version from the Web. Blecher said Scrabulous is in obvious copyright infringement under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which is enforceable in the U.S. and Canada, and that Hasbro has also sued for damages, attorney fees and profits from Scrabulous. Despite earlier stories suggesting that Hasbro was negotiating with the Agarwallas and that talks stalled when the brothers asked for too much money for Scrabulous, Blecher said Hasbro has consistently declined to negotiate. "Hasbro never contacted the folks who have the infringing application," he said...
...Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) had basked in victory after the Texas Supreme Court ordered the return of the children taken from its ranch in Eldorado in April. But the state's attorney general Greg Abbott pledged to prosecute FLDS members to the full extent of the law. And this week, after going through evidence taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, Abbott indicted Warren Jeffs - the "Prophet" of the polygamists - along with four of his followers on charges of first-degree felony sexual assault of a minor. (The four men were not named, and law-enforcement officials...
...confirmed that the Gaddafis had repeatedly struck them, causing visible bruises and other bodily injuries. Two days later, the Gaddafis were released on $500,000 bail and, pending further investigation by the Geneva prosecutors, returned to Libya. "They deny all the charges against them," the couple's Geneva attorney, Alain Berger, told TIME...
...Eugene Fidell, a Washington attorney and president of the independent National Institute of Military Justice, says the decision could represent some military-justice muscle-flexing. "The lawyers who make up the military-justice community have felt dissed as a group and are feeling, perhaps, emboldened as a group," he says. Yet Fidell says he takes solace from Allred's decision. "My concern over the run-up to this is that we would wind up watching the legal equivalent of a cult movie, where everybody knows the next line," he says. "This shows it's not a cult movie, although that...
...removed from the position in October, won't help; Amaral claims there's evidence that Madeleine died in the family's apartment. Meanwhile, any further investigation of the case from this point on will be left to the couple's own private detectives. As a result of the Attorney General's announcement, the McCanns' lawyers should get access to the Portuguese police files later this week, with the hope that those detectives can tease out fresh leads. For the McCanns, who are still confident that Madeleine is alive, the relief and pain are combined with a steely determination. Kate promised...