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John Leo Wagner, a former U.S. magistrate judge in Oklahoma, says he enjoys working in the "paradise" of Southern California, ...

Recent Court of Appeals decisions continue to express the longstanding judicial antipathy toward circumvention of copyright la...

Trying to get a federal court jury to award big damages in the Bratz doll copyright infringement case, a lawyer for Mattel Thu...

Counsel for billionaire financier Kirk Kerkorian appeared in federal court Thursday to discuss his turn on the witness stand i...

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