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Judge Throws the Book at AT&T Hacker 'Weev'

2013-03-19 00:17:00| TechNewsWorld

Andrew Auernheimer, a hacker known as "Weev," was sentenced Monday to 41 months in prison for obtaining the personal data of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T's publicly accessible website and sending the information to the media. The ruling immediately sparked an outcry from a digital rights group that claims the punishment does not fit the crime.

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Court throws out much of $1.6 billion leak case versus Exxon

2013-02-27 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Exxon Mobil Corp has won the reversal by Maryland's highest court of a $1 billion punitive damages award stemming from an underground leak at a gas station, and also won the reversal of portions of nearly $650 million of compensatory damages awards. The Maryland Court of Appeals said in a ruling on Tuesday Exxon's "shortcomings" in remediation efforts did not rise to the level of fraud, removing the basis for the punitive damages award. Some compensatory damages were reversed because the plaintiffs...

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Supreme Court throws out NSA surveillance case

2013-02-26 18:12:09| CNET News.com

Court's conservatives say there's no evidence plaintiffs, including Amnesty International, were harmed by controversial law allowing wholesale surveillance of international communications. [Read more]

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Representative Ed Markey throws his hat into the Senate race

2013-02-02 14:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Boston Globe: One day after former Senator Scott Brown announced he would not run in the special Senate race for John Kerrys vacated seat, Representative Ed Markey, a Democrat from Malden, formally announced his plan to make a run for the spot in the US Senate. In a 20-minute speech at the Malden YMCA where Markey played basketball as a child, he made no mention of the Republican who would have been perhaps his most fearsome opponent. Instead, he regaled a crowd of about 500 supporters in the gymnasium...

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