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| Former TV Judge Joe Brown arrested in real life - media | |  REUTERS - Former celebrity Judge Joe Brown got the book thrown at him in court on Monday. The former host of a reality court television show was arrested and sentenced to five days in jail for throwing a fit in a Memphis, Tennessee, courtroom, ABC reported. Brown became "pretty raucous" and "challenged the authority" of Shelby County Magistrate Harold Horne, after learning the child-support case he was litigating was not on the docket, a CNN affiliate in Memphis reported. The 66-year-old spent 15 years arbitrating court cases on his television show "Judge Joe Brown" until it was canceled in May. According to CNN, Brown is running for the Shelby County district attorney post.
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| Obama to propose ending NSA bulk collection of phone records -official | |  By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama plans to ask Congress to end the bulk collection and storage of phone records by the National Security Agency but allow the government to access the "metadata" when needed, a senior administration official said on Monday. If Congress approves, the Obama administration would stop collecting the information, known as metadata, which lists millions of phone calls made in the United States.
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| Obama to propose curbing NSA bulk collection of phone records - report | |  The White House is preparing a proposal that would curb the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing administration officials. Obama in January outlined a series of limited reforms to NSA data-gathering, banning eavesdropping on the leaders of friendly or allied nations and proposing some changes to how NSA treats Americans' phone data. The most sweeping program, collection of telephone "metadata," comes up for reauthorization on Friday. Obama had asked Attorney General Eric Holder and the U.S. intelligence community to report back to him before that deadline on how to preserve the necessary capabilities of the program, without the government holding the metadata.
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| Guilty pleas in first U.S. counterfeit apps case | | | By Jonathan Stempel REUTERS - The leader of a group that trafficked in pirated Android mobile device applications has pleaded guilty over his role in the scheme, the first prosecution of a counterfeit apps case by the U.S. Department of Justice, the agency said on Monday. Nicholas Narbone, 26, of Orlando, Florida, pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of conspiring to commit criminal copyright infringement in connection with his activity on behalf of the Appbucket Group, the agency said. Co-conspirator Thomas Dye, 21, of Jacksonville, Florida, pleaded guilty to the same charge on March 10, over a scheme involving bogus apps worth more than $700,000, the agency said. "These men trampled on the intellectual property rights of others when they and other members of the Appbucket Group distributed more than one million copies of pirated apps," David O'Neil, acting assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's criminal division, said in a statement. |
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