RealNetworks Deal Includes $4.5 Million for Movie Studios' Legal Tab Mar 4, 2010
The concessions came in a Monday settlement agreement and a consent judgment, approved by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel on Wednesday. RealNetworks threw in the towel after Patel the major movie studios and the DVD Copy Control Association. (Law.com)
RealNetworks Permanently Barred from Manufacturing or Marketing RealDVD Mar 4, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks must permanently halt the manufacture and sale of RealDVD under a 'stipulated consent judgment and permanent injunction' approved today by Judge Marilyn Hall Patel of the United States District Court, Northern District of California. The order ends nearly a year and a half of legal action, during which the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) and the major motion picture studios successfully argued RealDVD violated the Content Scramble System... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Judge approves BofA settlement with SEC Feb 24, 2010
This court, while shaking its head, grants the S.E.C. s motion and approves the proposed consent judgment, Rakoff wrote. In September, Rakoff threw out a proposed $33 million settlement between BofA and the SEC, saying it was "neither fair, nor reasonable, nor adequate" to protect the public interest. (Albany Business Review, NY)
State announces fines against 2 waste firms Feb 5, 2010
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality said Allied Waste Industries Inc. and a subsidiary of Allied Waste agreed to the penalty under a consent judgment for solid waste violations ... The consent judgment is subject to court approval. (AZCentral -- News)
Gallardos G&H Management faces bankruptcy Jan 23, 2010
Gallardo, the president of G&H, agreed to a consent judgment for that amount Oct. 26 in a St. Louis County Circuit Court suit. Ozzie s closed last and G&H has failed to satisfy the judgment, and has made no payments on the lease since the judgment, although rent continues to accrue during the term of the lease, attorneys for U.S. REIF with in St. Louis said in the bankruptcy petition. (St. Louis Business Journal, MO)
Comcast, Michigan Towns Bury PEG Hatchet Jan 23, 2010
which will be joining in the filing of the consent judgment and order of dismissal ... The settlement will be final once the court accepts the proposed consent judgment and order of dismissal. (Multichannel News)
