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Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter
Techdirt: Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter: Back in October, we wrote about a law firm that was claiming a copyright on the cease-and-desist letters it sent out, and insisting that it was a violation to repost them. It’s long been believed that cease-and-desist letters that have no new creative expression and are […]
January 2008 / 2 min.
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
Wired News - MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study: Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry’s domestic losses came from illegal downloading of […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
Proof Positive that the Intelligence Oversight System is Hopelessly Compromised
Balkinization - Proof Positive that the Intelligence Oversight System is Hopelessly Compromised: Now that the Harman/Muller letters have been declassified, it is evident that there was no basis for classifying them in the first place. And yet they were classified, as a matter of course. And the classification continued, even after the CIA program was […]
January 2008 / 1 min.
RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits
CNET - RIAA threatens 19 universities with lawsuits: Just in time to welcome many students back from fall break, the Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday dispatched a new round of “prelitigation” letters to 19 U.S. universities from coast to coast, alleging that campus networks are being used to commit copyright infringement.
October 2007 / 1 min.
Cheney’s Law
PBS FRONTLINE - Cheney’s Law: For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9⁄11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
Questions for the A.G. Nominee
New York Times - Questions of Justice: Michael B. Mukasey, President BushaEUR™s nominee for attorney general, appears today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Op-Ed page asked four legal experts to pose the questions they would like to hear Judge Mukasey answer. One sample question: 1. Griffin Bell, attorney general under Jimmy Carter, once wrote […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
Royal Canadian Mint Owns the Penny
October 2007 / 0 min.
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 […]
October 2007 / 1 min.
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 […]
September 2007 / 1 min.
DOJ cuts off Guantanamo lawyer access after federal court ruling
JURIST - DOJ cuts off Guantanamo lawyer access after federal court ruling: A US Department of Justice lawyer has informed lawyers representing some 40 detainees at Guantanamo Bay that they will no longer be able to visit with or send written communications to their clients.
September 2007 / 1 min.