san francisco nears settlement for failed rescue

By John Cote The San Francisco Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO — The city attorney's office has reached a tentative settlement with the parents of a Seattle man who plunged to his death from a Nob Hill rooftop in 2006 during a rescue attempt by ...

Legal Roundup: Wolfgang's Vault Settlement; Immersion-Microsoft ...

Lotsa digital media-related legal news coming out today: -- Wolfgang's Vault settlement: This was a much anticipated one: Doors and Carlos Santana have reached a tentative settlement with Wolfgang's Vault, the controversial site which ...

Settlement: Immersion paying Microsoft $20.75m

Breaking news: Immersion Corp., the maker of video-game controller vibration technologies, has agreed to pay Microsoft $20.75 million to settle the lawsuit brought by the Redmond company last year. More to come.

Two cheers for the Target/NFB accessibility settlement

The American National Federation for the Blind brought a class action lawsuit against target.com for inaccessibility of its website (which is, interestingly, “powered by Amazon.com”). After lots of to-and-fro, news came today that ...