In a long-running legal dispute over its plans to create a digital library, Google argued that associations of authors and photographers should not be allowed to sue the company as a group.
REAL PROPERTY – Sumner Hill Homeowners’ Ass’n Inc. v. Rio Mesa Holdings LLC
OPINION – Homeowners lived in a gated community with private access to the San Joaquin River. A developer planned to surround them with a new development and give river access to this new development, and restrict access for the gated community. The residents of the gated community were entitled to keep the area, and the river access, private. (Cal.Ct. App., 5th Dist.)
FOOTBALL INJURY - Pena v. Los Angeles Unified Sch. Dist.
COMPLAINT - A complaint has been filed against the Los Angeles Unified School District after a school football injury caused minor to go into a coma; he was diagnosed with a permanent brain injury. His injury required four brain surgeries to date, the removal of approximately half of his skull and has left him permanently brain damaged. (Super. Ct. Los Angeles Cnty.)
TRADE DRESS – Electronic Arts Inc v. Textron Inc.
OPINION – Electronic Arts makes the video game Battlefield 3, which depicts Bell Helicopter models AH–1Z, UH–1Y and V–22. Textron (part of Bell) threatened trademark and trade dress litigation over use of the helicopters in the game and in ads and packaging. Textron sought dismissal of EA’s suit for declaratory judgment, but EA is entitled to seek that relief. (N.D. Cal.)
The discussion of the finances of the world's leading mobile operating software came during a damages hearing in high stakes litigation between Oracle and Google over smartphone technology.
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The U.S. appeals court ruled that John Yoo is immune from a lawsuit by an American citizen who said he had been tortured at a military jail in South Carolina.
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