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Yahoo Protesting China Lawsuit

The Internet company continued to cite a need to comply with local laws as they asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit against it.Being accused of abetting the prosecution and torture of journalists in China can’t be something that looks good on the annual report. Yahoo has been in a position to be accused [...]

Yahoo Named In Chinese Torture Suit

Search engine companies get sued all the time, but it’s usually about a patent dispute, a site’s ranking, or something else relatively mundane and white-collar.  Not so in this case: Yahoo is being sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act and the Torture Victims Protection Act.
No one’s suggesting that some Yahoo exec pulled out the [...]