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Should AT&T be held legally responsible for any NSA cooperation?
The Iconoclast - CNET News.com - Should AT&T be held legally responsible for any NSA cooperation?: This is a fine example of McCullagh’s Law in action: Unless you vote my way, Americans will die. (Is the Bush administration really serious about this, by the way? Do they think that gun-toting privacy activists will start kidnapping […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
Will Starbucks Wi-Fi soon be free?
Computerworld - Prediction: Starbucks Wi-Fi will soon be free: When Starbucks introduced for-pay Wi-Fi in 2002, it seemed like a great deal (especially for business customers who could expense it). But five years later, the model appears old and stale and ready for a complete overhaul. Prediction: Starbucks will start rolling out free Wi-Fi access […]
October 2007 / 2 min.
How to say no to the President? (Medellin v. Texas)
SCOTUSblog - How to say no to the President? The Supreme Court, deeply fascinated with its own role in an interconnected world legal order, spent extra time on Wednesday examining the question of how to say no to the President on a treaty matter and, if it does, to do so without harming the Chief […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
Licensing of Child Location Services Bill
Spy Blog - Licensing of Child Location Services Bill–does it also apply to tracking vehicles driven by 17 year olds?: The Bill seems to have the right sort of intent, but it could pose serious conflicting legal problems for the police, the primary telecommunications network providers and the third party Location Based Services companies, in […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
Companies Pitch Flextime as Macho
An older article from December of 2006, but an interesting look at what some large firms are doing to try and retain their work force. WSJ.com - Companies Pitch Flextime as Macho: Here’s a novel approach to keeping women in the work force: Focus on men. Some employers are trying to overcome a perceived stigma […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
Should we study Kelsen?
Quite honestly, I had never heard of Kelsen before. Perhaps this is unsurprising, considering the almost complete lack of theory in the law school curriculum. I also never encountered him in my studies of history, philosophy or literary theory, but then again, I’m hardly a specialist in such matters. So I found the following discourse […]
October 2007 / 3 min.
Tinkering with Billable-Hour Requirements
WSJ Law Blog - Tinkering with Billable-Hour Requirements: In the perpetual race to recruit new attorneys from top law schools, mid-tier firms are feeling squeezed. The biggest firms recently increased starting salaries for first-year associates to as high as $160,000, and they’re recruiting more and more attorneys each year. So what’s a mid-tier firm to […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
ACLU appeals domestic wiretap challenge to US Supreme Court
JURIST - ACLU appeals domestic wiretap challenge to US Supreme Court: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a certiorari petition Wednesday asking the US Supreme Court to hear a challenge of the government’s domestic surveillance program that was rejected by the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in July.
October 2007 / 1 min.
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 holdersaEUR™ rights and reflects the growing concern over the patent-litigation boom. […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
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 […]
September 2007 / 2 min.