Sentences with phrase «court against the publishers»

The Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has filed a suit at the Fast Track High Court against the publishers of The Herald newspaper and three others for accusing him of engaging in illegal mining.

Not exact matches

Tyndale House Publishers won a temporary injunction against the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) contraceptive mandate Friday, convincing the D.C. Federal District Court that the requirement violated its religious freedom.

The ordinance would have permitted any woman who felt degraded or victimized by a piece of pornographic literature or pornographic film to have a court injunction issued against the booksellers, theater owners, publishers and distributors to prevent the marketing of the offending material.

No fewer than five police vans, scores of armed policemen and operatives of the Department of State Services were deplored in the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin on Thursday to forestall the breakdown of law and order as the libel suit filed by the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, against an online medium, SaharaReporters, and its publisher, Omoyele Sowore, came up for hearing.

Quick Pitch: As a belligerent U.S. president seeks court action to stop the press from printing damning Vietnam War documents, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) must weigh truth - telling against threatened imprisonment and insolvency.

Print books still preferred by readers; Court rejects booksellers» DRM suit against Amazon, publishers; Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selects The Invention of Wings; Amazon to collect sales tax in Tennessee and Nevada; Charles Taylor Prize renamed, award added; Changes in Ingram Publisher Services» leadership

The Amsterdam District Court ruled in July that Tom Kabinet can stay open for business during a legal battle against the Dutch Publishers Association.

Agency pricing has not been found to be illegal, and no criminal charges have been brought against Apple or the publishers; the three publishers who settled out of court in the DoJ lawsuit have admitted no wrongdoing.

The outcome, which included settlements from most of the publishers seeking to avoid lengthy and costly court battles as well as a guilty verdict for Apple that is currently in appeals, has yet to be finalized, but Judge Denise Cote is expected to seek the maximum amount of damages against Apple for its violation of Section One of the Sherman Act.

One by one, every single publisher has settled out of court and only Apple remains in a proxy battle against Amazon.

News — 1) The Department of Justice files an anti-trust suit against Apple and five publishers, three of whom have settled out of court.

Now, Penguin and Macmillan, the two remaining publishers who are going to court to defend themselves against anti-trust violation allegations, have spoken out against Amazon and against the Department of Justice investigation.

It's still very confusing that publishers rail against the retail giant and that «unnamed sources» continue to leak tidbits of information that are supposed to sway the court of public opinion against Amazon.

Three of the five publishers named in the class - action lawsuit and the Department of Justice investigation and suit against Apple and Penguin, Macmillan, Hachette, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins have already settled out of court with the DoJ, but today the judge on the case took another of those three... [Read more...]

By Edward Nawotka Our cheat sheet to some of this week's most talked about publishing news: Google Book Settlement Rejected by Judge, Publishers Mixed After 18 months of deliberation in court, an American judge has ruled against the Google Book Settlement, saying that it would give Google an unfair monopoly.

Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster settled their suits in April, but Penguin, Macmillan and Apple refused, with the two publishers denying the charges laid against them in lengthy filings in the United States district court in New York on Wednesday.

The US Department of Justice has urged an appeals court to uphold the verdict against Apple that found the fruity firm had violated antitrust laws and conspired with book publishers to fix the price of ebooks.

As the federal government presses its antitrust case against Apple (s aapl), Amazon (s amzn) is taking on a central role in determining whether a court will conclude that the iPad maker illegally colluded with five publishers to fix the price of ebooks.

Actress - slash - burnout Lindsay Lohan's drawn - out suit against Grand Theft Auto publisher Take - Two Interactive fizzled out yesterday after a New York court rejected her appeal.

A group of nearly 40 past and present Infinity Ward developers have banded together to file suit against the publishers of Modern Warfare 2 for half a billion dollars, alleging breach of contract and unpaid royalties, according to court documents obtained by G4 TV.com.

Less than a month after receiving his $ 3.4 million payout of a libel verdict in his favor against the Boston Herald, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy has been hit with formal charges of misconduct for writing threatening and intimidating letters to the newspaper's publisher.

Mitchell v News Group Newspapers [2013] EWCA Civ 1537 became a landmark Jackson reforms case after Andrew Mitchell MP's solicitors incurred costs sanctions limiting recoverable costs to the court fees after submitting their budget late in his libel action against the publishers of The Sun newspaper.

*** I have advised the publishers that they may proceed against you through the Federal Trade Commission in Washington calling upon you to there defend yourself against the charge of «unfair competition,» because of your simulation of their title, or that they can proceed against you, the producers of your film, its distributors and exhibitors in court for an injunction restraining you from use of the title, «The Illiterate Digest.»

Well - crafted agreement is necessary too, as courts have ruled against (for example) literary agents and publishers who've pursued action against infringers on content that the publisher manages but does not have any actual ownership in the copyright.

In court proceedings in 2013 against Apple (Case 1:12 - cv -02826-DLC, United States of America v Apple Inc, et al), a US federal judge ruled that the price - matching provision in Apple's contracts with five major book publishers, was part of a scheme to fix e-book prices.

On May 11 a US District Court issued its long awaited decision in the lawsuit brought by three academic publishers against Georgia State University for its use of copyrighted materials in its «electronic reserves» system.

By doing so, the Court authorized the class action undertaken by Copibec and the representatives of authors, publishers and copyright collectives against Université Laval on behalf of all authors and publishers in Quebec and elsewhere.