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Judge: Cablevision lying about Verizon lying

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I know what you’re thinking: Aren’t all advertisements, except for those you’ll see on this website, lies of one sort or another? … A judge in New York says there are matters of degree.

From a Reuters story:

A U.S. judge has ordered Cablevision to stop running advertisements accusing rival Verizon of lying about having the fastest wireless network.

The ruling on Monday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Brown … comes days after he ruled against Cablevision’s own bid to block Verizon from advertising that it had the “fastest WiFi available” for misleading consumers.

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N.H. judge overturns ban on ‘ballot selfies’

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Residents of the “Live Free or Die” state are now free to take “ballot selfies.”

If, like me, you had been unaware that ballot selfies are thing or that they had been explicitly banned in New Hampshire, here’s the gist from Boston.com.

A federal judge Monday repealed (New Hampshire’s) law banning photos of filled-out election ballots, ruling that it violated the First Amendment. U.S. District Court Judge Paul Barbadoro said the law was unconstitutional, because it did not meet the standards necessary for the state to restrict political free speech.

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Judge classifies as class action an email scanning lawsuit against Yahoo

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A lawsuit that alleges Yahoo’s email scanning practices are illegal can proceed as a class action complaint, a development that will shine the spotlight on the Yahoo Mail use of messages’ content for advertising purposes.

Plaintiffs allege that emails sent to Yahoo Mail users by people who do not have Yahoo Mail accounts are scanned by Yahoo in violation of federal and California wiretapping laws.

In a decision Tuesday evening, Judge Lucy Koh said all U.S. residents who are not Yahoo Mail subscribers but who have sent emails to or received emails from a Yahoo Mail subscriber between Oct. 2, 2011, and now may sue the company.

California residents who are not Yahoo Mail subscribers but who have sent emails to or received emails from a Yahoo Mail subscriber between Oct. 2, 2012, and now may sue the company, according to the judge’s filing in the U.S. district court in the northern district of California.

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Judge saves bacon of woman who smeared some on window inside police station

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A month ago I brought you the story of a woman who tossed and smeared meat products – bacon and sausage – at a police officer working behind a glass window in Framingham, Mass. The story caught my eye because it happened just across town from Network World headquarters and the woman involved shares my surname, though to my knowledge no close relatives.

The bizarre episode garnered widespread media attention – thanks primarily to the accompanying surveillance video – and now a judge has resolved the legal case. From a MetroWest Daily News report:

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