February 1, 2010 by Valerie Helmbreck

Now here’s what I call customer service gone wild: A Texas bank has decided to sue one of its commercial customers that was robbed by a gang of international cyberthieves.
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Tags: cybertheives, Hillary Machinery Inc., lawsuit, PlainsCapital Bank, security, Texas
August 18, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Talk about your activist judges. A federal district judge in Texas handed down a ruling that could rock Microsoft’s world: According to the court, the company can no longer sell its market-dominant word processing software.
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Tags: federal district court, judge, lawsuit, Leonard Davis, Microsoft, Texas, Word
July 30, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Watch what you Tweet about, it could land you in legal trouble if it maligns someone else’s business. That’s what happened to a Chicago woman who used her Twitter account to complain about her “moldy” apartment.
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Tags: Amanda Bonnen, Horizon Group Management LLC, lawsuit, mold, tweet, Twitter
July 13, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
I once knew a woman who, after a few too many cocktails, stepped off a curb and into traffic — forcing panicked motorists to
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Tags: cell phone, Department of Environmental Protection, lawsuit, manhole, Staten Island
May 22, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck

Craigslist execs are heating up their battle to keep their ads for, ahem, “adult content” despite the very red state’s aversion to all things obscene or prostitution-related.
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Tags: adult content, Craigslist, lawsuit, South Carolina
February 17, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Well, Microsoft’s in the legal crosshairs yet again. This time, the software giant’s being sued for the fees computer buyers have to pay to get XP installed on their new systems instead of Vista.
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Tags: downgrade, lawsuit, Microsoft, operating system, Vista, XP
February 16, 2009 by Valerie Helmbreck
Just when you thought IT couldn’t get any stranger, along comes a lawsuit that blows your mind.
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Tags: application, development, Internet marketing, iphone, lawsuit
November 24, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck

Don’t be surprised if your organization gets hit with a new kind of lawsuit sometime soon. The latest legal challenge:
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Tags: booting up, computer, lawsuit, pay, shutting down, time
November 13, 2008 by Valerie Helmbreck

Now’s a good time to caution supervisors and HR about being too quick to classify IT networking staffers as exempt from overtime under the FLSA.
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Tags: Apple, classify, lawsuit, networking, staff
June 6, 2008 by Sam Narisi
Can the stuff your firm’s employees do on their home computers end up costing you in court? That’s what’s happening to one company now.
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Tags: blog, Cisco, lawsuit