Matthew Barakat

November 25, 2024 | The Recorder

The Justice Department and Google were scheduled to make closing arguments Monday before U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in Alexandria, Virginia. The court will determine whether Google's advertising technology constitutes an illegal monopoly.

By Matthew Barakat/AP

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September 26, 2024 | The Recorder

The testimony from economist Mark Israel comes as Google wraps up its defense in the third week of an antitrust trial that began earlier this month in Alexandria, Virginia.

By Matthew Barakat/AP

4 minute read

September 09, 2024 | The Recorder

Google says the government's case is based on an internet of yesteryear, when desktop computers ruled and internet users carefully typed precise World Wide Web addresses into URL fields.

By By Matthew Barakat/AP

6 minute read

November 09, 2022 | Daily Report Online

The former U.S. House speaker, who lives in northern Virginia, had argued that the federal law that normally requires states to honor out-of-state grand jury summonses should not apply in this case because the special grand jury lacks the power to indict.

By Matthew Barakat | The Associated Press

4 minute read

February 06, 2014 | Daily Report Online

The judge deciding what could become a landmark gay marriage case in Virginia defies easy characterization: She was a prosecutor, but also a public defender. She was appointed by President Barack Obama, and she also served in the military as a Navy lawyer.

By Matthew Barakat

4 minute read

July 10, 2009 | Daily Report Online

McLEAN, Va. AP - The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.Ahmed Omar Abu Ali is serving a 30-year sentence at the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colo.

By MATTHEW BARAKAT

3 minute read

March 11, 2008 | Daily Report Online

By MATTHEW BARAKAT

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April 06, 2007 | Daily Report Online

ALEXANDRIA, Va. AP - A judge issued an injunction Friday that would bar Internet phone carrier Vonage from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc.Vonage Holdings Corp. planned an immediate appeal.The company's lawyers argued that the compromise injunction issued by U.

By Matthew Barakat

2 minute read

March 12, 2013 | Law.com

A federal judge dealt a severe blow Friday to a long-running torture lawsuit filed against military contractor CACI by four Iraqis who say they suffered abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

By Matthew Barakat

3 minute read

June 16, 2009 | Daily Report Online

WOODBRIDGE, Va. AP - A co-worker suspected in the Monday morning shootings of a bus driver and another man in the employee lot of a northern Virginia bus station surrendered later in the day, authorities said.Police said the suspect, Glen Kinard Wade, and one of the victims, bus driver Darnell McPherson, had a fight before shooting broke out about 11 a.

By MATTHEW BARAKAT

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