This had become a popular image of the hippie counter-culture and Crumb collected royalties for years, but a suit emerged challenging Crumb ' s copyright which hads never been registered and in 1977 a federal judge ruled that Crumb had let the image fall into the public domain, freeing pirates from any further royalty payments to Crumb

This set up a legal challenge which took another step forward on Wednesday, when the Bush administration asked a federal judge to order the release of Google ' s records

A federal judge yesterday sent a chilling message to white-collar criminals by sentencing a former Dynegy executive to 24 years in prison for a $ 300 m accounting fraud at the energy company