Volume 3 March 2010 Security and Privacy on Social Networking Sites From the Desk of David Badertscher What are the security and privacy issues associated with social networking sites? Social networking sites have become very popular avenues for people to communicate with family, friends and colleagues from around the corner…
In a unanimous 3-0 Decision last Tuesday April 6 the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Federal Communication Commission did not have the authority to order Comcast in 2008 to cease and desist interfering with the traffic of Bit Torrent a P2P…
A select bibliography. In response to a recent request I compiled a short, selected list of treatises published between the years 1880 and 1990. It is being reproduced here for the benefit of those readerw who might also be interested. This list is selective and thereroe not intended to be…
March 2010 A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section, http://www.abanet.org/crimjust All summaries below were prepared by staff of the ABA Criminal Justice Section.. JOHNSON v. UNITED STATES (No. 08-5274) United States Supreme Court Opinion Decided: March 2, 2010 Petitioner Johnson pleaded guilty to possession of ammunition by a convicted…
The Pension Committee of the University of Montreal Pension Plan et. al. v. Banc of America Securities et. al. 05 Civ 9016 (SAS) Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court SD New York has found the plaintiffs in the University of Montreal pension fund case to be grossly…
A Legal Analysis of Reed Elsevier, Inc. v, Muchnick March 18, 2010 CRS Report No. R40944; 3/18/2010; Posted 4/5/2010 Author(s): Brian T. Yeh, Legislative Attorney Subject(s): Intellectual Property No. of Pages: 11 Abstract: Although an author need not register his or her work with the U.S. Copyright Office to obtain…
In a post on the Social Media Student Blog Josh Cameron writes: It’s no secret that Google Scholar now includes court opinions and legal journals. The legal journal articles are just search results that will redirect you to the hosting site. However, a large number of the court opinions are…
To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw March 29, 2010 – April 2, 2010. ——————————————————————————– U.S. Supreme Court, March 30, 2010 Berghuis v. Smith, No. 08–1402 In habeas proceedings brought by an individual convicted of second degree murder by…
The Internet Society’s New York Chapter (ISOC-NY) has for some years been following the .nyc and ICANN process on behalf of the NYC community and will, on Saturday April 10 2010, host a symposium “dot nyc – How are we doing?” at NYU. Vendors Eric Brunner-Williams of CORE Internet Council…
This morning I was one of many who received the following e-mail from Jessica Van Buren of the Utah State Law Library. : A few weeks ago I asked if any of you had disaster plans to share. I offered to compile responses for a new Toolkit page on the…