Intellectual Property Law

Bled
Canadian Nortel Networks, bled dry by bad management, has thrown in the towel. One analyst characterized Nortel as having the trifecta for becoming corporate toast:  "lack of innovation, a lack of understanding their customers and a lack of marketing...

Willfully
Australian patent-holding company QPSX Developments 5 sued Nortel, Juniper Networks, Lucent, Cisco and Alcatel in June 2005 for infringing 5,689,499, in the east Texas. All settled but Nortel...

Nortel Phones It In
Toronto-based Nortel Networks, known to hammer competitors with patent litigation suits, spent $560,000 lobbying for patent legislation in 2007; a Canadian company paying for the U...

SEC Settles Earnings Management Charges Against Former Nortel VPs
The SEC announced that Craig A. Johnson, James B. Kinney and Kenneth R.W. Taylor ? who were the vice presidents of finance for the Wireline, Wireless, and Enterprise business units of Nortel Networks Corporation (?Nortel?), respectively ? agreed to settle...

Nortel Networks FIles Chapter 11 In Delaware
From Reuters:  Nortel Networks, the maker of telephone equipment, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, a day before it was scheduled to make an interest payment of about $107 million...

Nortel Enters Into Settlement Agreement With Former And Disabled Canadian Employee Representatives
Nortel entered into a Settlement Agreement with court-appointed representatives of its Canadian former employees, pensioners and LTD beneficiaries, the court-appointed representative counsel to such parties, Koskie Minsky LLP, the CAW Canada and Nortel's court-appointed Monitor...

Cumulative Voting
Protecting minority shareholder interests

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

State Will Statutes
State Differences in Last Will and Testament Checklist

Discrimination
Federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Canadian Government
allegedly used Canadian soldier as test subjects for nuclear explosion radiation exposure.

Nortel
faces class action over changes to employee pension plan

Rally Rights
Gettysburg Borough awards arrested protester $22,500 civil rights settlement.

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

Meta Financial Group, Inc CASH Securities Fraud
Meta Financial Group, Inc CASH

Canadian Government
seeks new law enabling them to search your laptop