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Does the “Other Party” on a Wiretapped Line Have Any Privacy Rights?
So when the government is targeting a person’s communications, what rights does the person calling – or being called – have? What about if the target is overseas and the “other party” is in the United States? This is an area that seems pretty unclear to me right now, although it might be pretty important […]
September 2007 / 4 min.
Judge Voids Part of Patriot Act
A federal judge yesterday struck down the parts of the recently revised USA Patriot Act that authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use informal secret demands called national security letters to compel companies to provide customer records. The judge, Victor Marrero of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, ruled that the measure violated the […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
Patent Reform
An update on patent reform legislation working its way through Congress right now. An interesting amendment (from the comments on Patently-O) includes the following: [The] banning of patents on “tax planning methods.” These are defined, inter alia, as any invention that is a “techniqueaEUR|that has, when implemented, the effect of reducing, minimizing, or deferring, a […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
Theory v. Practice in Law School Education
PrawfsBlawg: The Balance Between Theory & Practice: Recently, the balance between theory and practice in law schools has received markedly more attention (see the much-discussed Carnegie Foundation’s Report on Educating Lawyers). Many schools realize they do a disservice to their students if they don’t prepare them adequately for law practice. Several leading organizations have called […]
September 2007 / 2 min.
Federal judge slams government response to FOIA requests on surveillance program
JURIST - Paper Chase: Federal judge slams government response to FOIA requests on surveillance program A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Office of Legal Counsel, and the office of the Attorney General to submit more information to the court in support of their motion for summary judgment in a […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
Earthlink Escapes Contract for Free San Francisco Wifi
EarthLink said late Wednesday that it is bailing out of a contract to build San Francisco’s free Wi-Fi service. Earlier on Wednesday, the city of Houston announced that EarthLink had agreed to pay a $5 million penalty to the city for not meeting its first deadline for building its wireless network. EarthLink has nine months […]
August 2007 / 2 min.
What is the law school curriculum intended to achieve?
From PrawfsBlog: There are several schools of thought about what the first year of law school is all about. The first is the “skills” thesis. This is the idea that the goal of the first year of law school is to introduce students to the fundamental skills of the profession and that they can learn […]
August 2007 / 2 min.
Justice Not Blind Blog
A new blog I found recently (via BlogCatalog), focusing on law and the use of technology in law: Justice Not Blind. As a current MS Word for Mac user (and hating it!), I’m going to be very curious how the editor’s experiment with Pages works out!
August 2007 / 1 min.
Optimal Copyright Law Length is 14 Years
To get back in the spirit of posting, I’d like to note the following story, via Irish law blog cearta.ie: How long should the copyright term be? In Irelend, it’s life + 70 years, as it essentially is in the U.S. after various changes to federal law, partly as a result of industry lobbying and […]
August 2007 / 2 min.
Back to my second year of law school
I’m now in my second-year of law school, and fortunately I’ve managed to enroll mostly in seminar classes, which are much more to my taste than large lecture classes (the traditional law school format, which I find pedagogically unsound). So now I’m in Intellectual Property and Constitutional Law I (both old-school lecture classes), Alternative Dispute […]
August 2007 / 1 min.