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The Daily Memo - 5/16/06
Creative Technology has sued Apple for patent infringement in two separate legal actions, alleging that the iPod infringes its patent and seeking damages and injunctions banning Apple from selling the iPod and iPod in the United States. (ZDNet)
Last Friday, two New Jersey lawyers filed a lawsuit against Verizon on behalf of all Verizon subscribers over the NSA phone records debacle, seeking approximately $50 billion in damages and an order requiring Verizon to stop handing its records over. (CNN Money)
Texas, after reviewing research which suggests that higher speed limits make traffic safer and actually decresase speeding, is considering raising the speed limit on some of its highways to 80 mph. (Leftlane News)
The First Circuit Court of Appeals has joined the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in ruling that companies cannot contractually ban class action lawsuits simply by including an arbitration provision in their contracts. (Law.com)
A tentative settlement has been reached between donut-maker Krispy Kreme and workers who allege that their retirement savings went in the tank because of Krispy Kreme hiding evidence about its finances. (FindLaw)
