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Amazon.com has removed an especially controversial title from its Kindle electronic book store. Amazon initially defended its own carrying of the book, saying that to remove it would be censorship, and then they yanked it anyway. But given the way Amazon stocks the virtual shelves of its online store, isn't this issue likely to come up again?

Many illegal immigrants own homes and cars and have children who are U.S. citizens. With the rise of deportations, some immigrants are preparing wills to make sure their assets and children are taken care of in case they are deported.

don't do it on Twitter. In England. Actually, you know what? Just don't do it.

Oracle's co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison is set to take the stand today in a trial where his firm is suing German company SAP for stealing software. SAP has already admitted wrongdoing, so what else is happening in this case? Steve Henn reports.

So it's probably not the best idea to complain about your boss on Twitter or Facebook -- but the National Labor Relations Board argues that workers have the right to discuss working conditions on social media, positive or otherwise.

Sometimes it's not worth hiring a lawyer over an unjustified $30 charge from your cell phone servicer -- so you band together with several other consumers to file a class-action lawsuits. Federal law states these lawsuits are not allowed if there was an arbitration clause in the contract, but state courts have been ruling otherwise.

Mitchell L. Frost of Bellevue, Ohio is a 23-year-old former student at the University of Akron and he's going to jail for two and a half years in...

The case of Jammie Thomas-Rassert of Brainerd, Minn. has been dragging on for years. She's the first person to take a lawsuit from the RIAA to a...

When Google launched Google Buzz there were some glaring privacy holes in it. They were trying to set up the next big social network and so...

Video games have come a long way since Atari and Super Mario -- and sometimes, that means quite a load of visual violence. Senator Leland Yee of Calif. thinks it may be too much and wants to impose limits on selling such games to children. The Supreme Court hears the case today.