Court case

A look at the main developments and effects of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling so far and suggestions for stations.

The surprise HTC expressed earlier this month at being sued by Apple has finally turned into something a bit more substantial: "strong disagreement."

Google attorneys argue in the trove of documents unsealed in the long-running legal battle between YouTube and Viacom that while Viacom "now insists that YouTube is liable because it should have recognized that their content was not authorized, plaintiffs' own actions defeat that claim."

It is time to stop thinking of cyberspace as a new medium or an agglomeration of new media. It is a new continent, rich in resources but in parts most perilous. It is being nationalized rapidly.

A look at Google's legal trouble in Italy.

In the first federal appeals court opinion dealing with "sexting" — the transmission of sexually explicit photographs by cellphone — a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that parents could block the prosecution of their children on child pornography charges for appearing in photographs found on some classmates' cellphones.

Comcast Chairman Brian Roberts has told Senate Judiciary Committee members that his company will not to challenge the Federal Communications Commission's tightening/closing of the terrestrial exemption last fall, either at the FCC or in the courts.

Law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, even going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information.

Verizon filed a patent-infringement complaint with U.S. trade officials, seeking to block imports of television set-top boxes for Cablevision Systems Corp.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has upheld regulations that require cable TV companies to make channels they own available to satellite TV providers and other rivals on equal terms.