Bonita Brady, a 63-year-old from Michigan, has sued the organization for age discrimination. According to the complaint, AARP passed her over for a series of jobs because she was too old, despite excellent job reviews.
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Bonita Brady, a 63-year-old from Michigan, has sued the organization for age discrimination. According to the complaint, AARP passed her over for a series of jobs because she was too old, despite excellent job reviews.

There's something definitely wrong with the iPhone's 3G reception. The evidence is undeniable, and as it's scattered across the globe, it sure can't be completely blamed on AT&T, much as we might want to.

It's been discussed before: in this information-filled age with all our personal data in databases that are vulnerable to leaks, as well as much of our behavioral data being gathered by corporations, is there really any privacy? On Wednesday, in response to a lawsuit, Google said no.

Hasbro can now stop worry about a server overload on its Facebook Scrabble application: only two days after disappearing from Facebook, Scrabulous is back, but with a new name (Wordscraper), and minor tweaks to hopefully eliminate any copyright issues.
Obviously the name is a good start in terms of deflecting lawsuits.

On Tuesday, Facebook users in the U.S. and Canada awoke to horror - the shutdown of the extremely popular Scrabulous game, in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Hasbro, the parent company of the official Scrabble game. There shouldn't have been much withdrawal pain, though, since after all, Electronic Arts (EA, which handles the digital rights to Scrabble for Hasbro) had already created a beta version of the official game, right?

In May, the South Carolina state legislature unanimously voted to endorse an "I Believe" license plate, bearing the image of a cross and a stained glass window. Governor Mark Sanford then allowed the bill to become law --- without his signature.

You might remember Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman who lost a court case over music sharing and was ordered to pay the recording industry $222,000 for copyright violations related to sharing songs. She was convicted of sharing the songs from her PC, despite the fact that they never proved that anyone had in fact downloaded anything from her PC.

Most sites love it when someone links to their story. As long as you only clip a short portion of the story, all you'll be doing, essentially, is driving traffic to the linked site.
You would think that "most" would include The Associated Press (AP), but apparently not.

Yes, T-Mobile has sued Starbucks, and it's over wi-fi, but it's not over the fact that Starbucks is dropping T-Mobile in favor of AT&T. It's over their new "free wi-fi" plan that was just unveiled this week.

With the so-called "Amazon Tax" taking effect in New York state on Sunday, Overstock.com filed suit Friday against New York, joining Amazon.com, which filed a similar lawsuit in early May.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court declined to hear arguments on a class-action lawsuit challenging the policies of T-Mobile and AT&T against unlocking cell phones. By declining to review an October decision by the California Supreme Court, they have cleared the way for a lawsuit that attorneys claim could represent "millions" of Californians.

The design of the MacBook Air has been called sharp and edgy, but I don't think any users want it quite this edgy. Users at a German Apple forum (apfeltalk) have posted a thread on just how edgy the Air is.

In Georgia, bar owner Mike Norman has been selling T-shirts at his Mulligan's Bar and Grill in Cobb County showing a picture of Curious Georgie peeling a banana, with the words "Obama '08" underneath.

So just how does the RIAA decide when it's time to send a threatening letter about possible copyright infringement? That's a good question, isn't it? It's of particular interest to colleges and universities, which have seen a spike in copyright infringement notices from the RIAA over the last month.

Two lawsuits mean a small credit ($45) will be due to Canadian owners of older iPods: first-, second- or third-generation iPods purchased before June 24, 2004.

Dr. Lisa Kohler had found that electrical shocks from Tasers were partially to blame for the deaths of three men in separate confrontations with police.
Taser International launched and won a civil suit, forcing Kohler to delete any reference to the deaths being related to electric shocks, and to term them "accidental deaths."
It's bad enough when teenagers beat each other up so they can produce a viral video, but these are physicians, nurses and the like. Shouldn't they know better?
SueEasy, a Shangri-La for ambulance chasers, is now live and wreaking litigious havoc on the web. They’ve created, in their own words, a “harmonious and efficient system” for the filing of lawsuits.

Lawyers for families of victims of the Virginia Tech shootings said they have agreed to a settlement the state proposed to prevent lawsuits.
Yes, you read that right. In a brief filed by Universal Music Group (UMG) in federal court yesterday, UMG said that giving away or even throwing out a promotional CD is piracy.
