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Roman Polanski Fails to Block Extradition, Again

Ravi Somaiya · 04/23/10 09:25AM

A court in LA has denied Polanski's latest attempt to stay in his Swiss chalet forever more and avoid all the nasty prosecutors waiting for him in California. The decision may, finally, mean his return to the US. [CNN]

Anna Nicole Smith's Estate Will Not Get The Money She Married

Ravi Somaiya · 03/19/10 02:37PM

After 15 years of legal wrangling, a San Francisco court that says Smith's estate has no right to more than $300m she claimed her late billionaire husband, oil magnate J. Howard Marshall, promised her from his $1.6bn fortune. [AP]

Leakers Rejoice: (Some Of) Your Employers Can't Read Your Emails

Hamilton Nolan · 06/19/08 10:38AM

A California appeals court ruled yesterday that your job has no right to obtain your work emails or text messages if they are stored by a third party provider. That means that the roughly 30% of Microsoft Outlook users whose emails are handled by a vendor, for example, would be protected from having their employers snoop on them. If your job stores employee emails internally, they can still read them. Regardless, this is good news for leakers in this age of corporate snooping on your Facebook pages. Who do you have to thank for this newfound privacy? A cop who sent sexy text messages from his work phone!: