legal
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Alleged Co-Owners Of Mugshots.com Charged With Extortion
The California Attorney General announced criminal charges against four men it claims are the owners and operators of Mugshots.com. The website has been under fire for years over its practice of scraping law enforcement websites to publish mugshots and often incomplete criminal records. It then demands large fees through a sister site for removing the…
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Hasbro Has Officially Trademarked The Smell Of Your Childhood: Play-Doh
I have some bad news if you’ve created a perfume that has a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla-like fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, and the natural smell of a salted, wheat-based dough. That’s exactly how Hasbro describes the scent of Play-Doh, a smell that many of us associate with out childhoods and a smell that…
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Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Price-Fixing Scheme Carried Out By DRAM Manufacturers
A class action lawsuit filed Friday alleges that Samsung, Hynix, and Micron — three of the largest DRAM manufacturers in the world — colluded to limit supplies of the memory type and drive up the prices of their products, according to 9to5Mac.
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Starbucks In The US Must Tell Customers Its Coffee Contains A Cancer-Causing Ingredient
Last week, a California Superior Court judge issued a proposed ruling that’s bound to stress out lots of java drinkers — even if it probably shouldn’t. US companies like Starbucks will have to tell customers that their coffee can potentially cause cancer.