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Bankrupt Festival Organizer Can Recover Buyout Payment It Made to Co-Founder<br>

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A former Facebook employee is suing the company for gender discrimination and harassment, claiming her supervisor belittled her at work and asked why she 'did not just stay home and take care of her child.'

A suit by two former New Jersey-based employees of Anheuser-Busch ' claiming they were wrongfully discharged based on messages from their personal devices that were transferred to a company tablet ' is headed for federal court.

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U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said she didn't want February's hearing in a privacy suit against Hulu LLC to feel like 'a wake.' But the Northern District of California judge put the case on life support, at the very least, indicating that she's leaning toward knocking out the remaining claims in a 2011 suit under the Video Privacy Protection Act.

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A federal judge has ordered a litigious adult website to pay $5.6 million in attorney fees and costs under the Copyright Act, saying its motives for suing Giganews Inc. and Livewire Services Inc. had more to do with creating a tax write-off for its owner than with protecting its copyrights.

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If there really is a'death squad for patents, it may not be found at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. A more likely location is the Plano, TX, office of David O'Dell, chairman of Haynes and Boone's patent trials practice group.

A Collection of Moves in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Areas

Over the last year, cyberbreaches targeting health care and insurance companies have made headlines almost as frequently as those of large well-established business. Due to the sensitive material collected by companies in the health care space, companies in this industry are a particularly attractive target to cybercriminals and painful for organizations and their customers.