A federal appeals court upheld the $10 million securities fraud fine against Stanley Brooks the former CEO and owner of Brookstreet Securities Corp., who was
Month: August 2014

Prison for Trade Secrets Theft Co-conspirator
A DuPont Co. engineer and co-conspirator in a plot to sell company trade secrets to Chinese government-owned companies will spend two and one-half years in

Apple Maps Class Action Tossed
Plaintiffs apparently failed to map out their strategy sufficiently in a class action lawsuit over Apple’s troubled maps application. A federal judge dismissed the case

‘Bert the Farting Hippo’ Copyright Theft Stinks
“Bert the Farting Hippo” often seen – and heard – on the CBS program NCIS has become the center of a copyright suit between the

Three Death Sentences Upheld
California Supreme Court upheld the death sentences for three members of the “Bryant Family” drug gang in Los Angeles in a quadruple murder, including the
Quake Damage Closes Napa Courthouse
The historic Napa County Superior Court building suffered significant damage to the exterior during Sunday’s 6.0 earthquake and will be closed for structural testing. The