Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End?
WSJ Law Blog — Is the Golden Age of Patent Litigation Coming To an End? That’s the weighty question keeping us up last night as we contemplated In Re Stephen Comiskey, the latest in a string of rulings that has chipped away at patent holders’ rights and reflects the growing concern over the patent-litigation boom. (Click here for […]
EEOC Accuses Bloomberg LP Of Flunking Pregnancy Test
WSJ Law Blog — EEOC Accuses Bloomberg LP Of Flunking Pregnancy Test: Bloomberg, the media company not the mayor, was sued yesterday by the EEOC for allegedly engaging in a pattern of discrimination against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave. In a lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, the EEOC alleged the company demoted and reduced […]
CanLII - Canadian Legal Information Institute
I am very impressed by CanLII — Canadian Legal Information Institute search service: “CanLII is a non-profit organization managed by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. CanLII’s goal is to make Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.” The service is similar to the U.S.-centric Westlaw or Lexis-Nexis, although limited to only Canadian judicial decisions (Westlaw […]
The Right to Bear Ar--, Or Is It Access the Internet?
The Right to Bear Ar – , Or Is It Access the Internet?: All of these events [in Burma a.k.a. Myanmar] make we wonder whether the Bill of Rights would explicitly state that there is a right to free access and distribution of information over the Internet had the American Revolution occurred today. Now before everyone gets into […]
Fewer women are seeking law degrees
NLJ — Fewer women are seeking law degrees : Now an analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York, Dadd, 22, went so far as to take a prep course for the Law School Admission Test before she decided that pursuing a juris doctor degree was not the right move for her. ‘It was something I was always interested in, but […]
Why the Verizon/NARAL flap matters
Susan Crawford blog — The big picture: Why the Verizon/NARAL flap matters: We have to decide what model for communications regulation we want. Do we want the carriers to decide what we do online, or do we want the carriers just to be carriers? ‘Online,’ ‘cell phone,’ ‘telephone,’ and ‘cable’ all feel the same to the consumer. […]
Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional
cbs5.com — Judge Rules Parts Of Patriot Act Unconstitutional: (AP) PORTLAND, Ore. A federal judge ruled Wednesday that two provisions of the USA Patriot Act are unconstitutional because they allow search warrants to be issued without a showing of probable cause. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken ruled that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, […]
Justice Dept.'s warrantless eavesdropping rejected
Justice Dept.‘s warrantless eavesdropping rejected: The U.S. Department of Justice asserts it doesn’t need to obtain a wiretap court order to listen to which touch tones are pressed when people are on the phone.… At issue in this case is not whether the FBI can legally eavesdrop on a telephone conversation between two Americans. It can — if it […]
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