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Does Releasing Convicts Early Yield Crime Costs?

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 23, 2008. "The director of the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, Jeffrey Sedgwick, has contested the Washington Post's spin in reporting on the 7.2 million Americans under supervision in the justice system...

Wide Variation in FBI Prosecution Rates; Miami Leads

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 23, 2008. "In fiscal year 2007, federal prosecutors across the U.S. filed criminal charges in slightly more than half -- 55 percent -- of cases recommended for such action by the FBI. According to Justice Department data obtained by the Transactional Records Action Clearinghouse (TRAC) under the Freedom of Information Act, there was a wide district-to-district variation in the proportion of FBI referrals that resulted in an actual filing...

Preserving Your Client's Confidential Information: Another Electronic Nightmare

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 23, 2008. Preserving your client?s confidential information: another electronic nightmareMcGuireWoods LLP"As the legal world becomes increasingly digital and everything from discovery to court filings are conducted electronically, new risks and concerns arise regarding client confidentiality"...

Social Networking Marketing and Privacy Law

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 23, 2008. Social networking marketing and privacy lawWiley Rein LLP"Hardly a day goes by without the launch of yet another new social networking or other user-generated content website."

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Facebook Battles Google Over Access to User Data

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 23, 2008. Facebook battles Google over access to user dataPinsent Masons"Facebook has suspended the use of a Google service which allowed people to export their Facebook friends list to other websites, claiming that the Google service violates users' privacy...

Associated Press Struggles To Save Face In Blogger Copyright Dispute

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, Posting by Mitch Wagner June 20, 2008. AP Struggles To Save Face In Blogger Copyright Dispute "I don't blame the Associated Press for refusing to participate in a conversation about its attempts to overthrow government authority and rewrite copyright law its own liking...

California Asks Internet Service Providers to Block Newsgroups Exchanging Child Pornography

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 23, 2008. Calif. Asks ISPs To Block Newsgroups Exchanging Child Porn"Attorney General Jerry Brown hopes Verizon, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint will extend their agreement with New York to the Golden State".

List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on June 23, 2008
Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

Selections From National Law Journal Daily Headlines June 23, 2008

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, June 23, 2008. Subscription needed for online access�� http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Pace of new firm offices is brisk"espite the economic downturn in 2008, law firms have opened new offices at a brisk pace so far this year...

New Jersey Law Journal News Update June 20, 2008

Posted on June 23, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New�Jersey Law Journal News Alert Service you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Subscription needed for online access: Judge Reprimanded for Signing TRO in Clerk's Domestic Violence Case"Mount Arlington Municipal Court Judge Arnold Miniman is reprimanded for signing a temporary restraining order in his court administrator's domestic violence case, an impermissible conflict of interest...

New York Chapter Laws Signed: May 27 - June 17, 2008

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run June 22, 2008 Chapter Bill No. �92 S7136 JOHNSON O -- Extends provisions of chapter 303 of the laws of 1988 relating to the state commission on restoration of the capitol BLURB : Ext provisions of ch...

New York Legislature: Activity Report for Week Ending June 22, 2008

Posted on June 23, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run� June 22, 2008. Categories included: Corrections Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Death Penalty, Judiciary Law, Penal Law. CORRECTIONS LAW: Bill No. �A1269 Bing (MS) -- Prohibits sex offender from being entitled to a license as a real estate broker or real estate salesman Same as S 1531 Last Act: 06/16/08 reported referred to codesS1702 ROBACH -- Relates to level three designation for certain sex offenders under the sex offender registration act Same as A 4449 Last Act: 06/16/08 referred to correctionS6449A MALTESE -- Restricts hiring of child care providers with criminal convictions No Same as Last Act: 06/16/08 referred to social servicesS6907A LANZA -- Provides that certain sex offenders who are released on parole or sentenced to probation may not enter public, association or free libraries Same as A10375 Last Act: 06/16/08 referred to codesS8424 MALTESE -- Enacts the "child assault reform act" (CARE) No Same as Last Act: 06/16/08 referred to codes Last Action Date: 06/17/08(Results Count = ) Bill No...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest June 23, 2008

Posted on June 23, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to this service you should be able to click on any of the links�provided below, sign in, and access any of the decisions listed which interest you. http://www.nylj.com Subscription required for online access: APPELLATE DIVISIONFIRST DEPARTMENTCriminal PracticeLarceny Conviction Stands Despite Improper Bolstering of Sole Identifying Witness' Credibility People, respondent v...

Crime Counsel Challenges Third Way "Crime Wave" Forecast

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 20, 2008. "The National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) is challenging the 'Impending Crime Wave" report by the political consulting group Third Way, previously reported in Crime & Justice News. In a "fact sheet,' Third Way cited what NCCD described as "four new and menacing sociological trends, which, together with recent federal disengagement from crime fighting, allegedly threaten a new and devastating wave of crime in America...

News Outlets Consider Using Racial Identifiers in Crime Stories

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 20, 2008. "Prompted by pressure from competition and their own audiences, many news outlets are reconsidering longstanding policies against naming race in crime- suspect stories, says Sally Lehrman for the Institute for Justice and Journalism...

Virginia Seeks Biological Evidence That Might Clear Felons

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, June 20, 2008. "Virginia's Forensic Science Board will rely on volunteer lawyers to assist in one of the largest and most unusual DNA investigations ever undertaken, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The project has combed through half a million 20-to 35-year-old forensic case files on the chance someone wrongly convicted of a murder, rape or other serious crime before DNA testing was widely available might be cleared...

Juvenile Justice Chief Under Criminal Investigation

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 20, 2008. "Federal prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation of J. Robert Flores, director of the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, amid questions about his hiring practices, travel expenses, and personal ties to groups to which he gave millions of dollars, reports the Washington Post...

Bear Sterns Charges: Test Case On E-Mail Evidence

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 20, 2008. "Last year, as the mortgage market came unglued, two Bear Stearns executives shared their growing fears in a series of e-mail messages to each other about the perilous condition of the giant hedge funds they oversaw, says the New York Times...

More than 400 Federal Mortgate Fraud Charges in 3 Months

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, June 20, 2008. "The penalty phase of the mortgage meltdown has begun in earnest, reports the Los Angeles Times. The Justice Department says that more than 400 real estate industry players have been charged since March in a federal crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud that have contributed to the housing crisis...

New York District Court Refuses to Recognize Hedge Funds' Winding Up Proceedings in Cayman Islands

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 20, 2008. New York district court refuses to recognize hedge funds? winding up proceedings in the Cayman IslandsPaul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP"In a recent decision, Judge Sweet of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York affirmed a bankruptcy court decision and refused to recognize under chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Code either as 'foreign main proceedings' or as 'foreign nonmain proceedings' the well-publicized liquidations brought in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands by two Bear Stearns hedge funds (the 'Funds')...

Authentication of Electronically Stored Information

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 20, 2008. Authentication of electronically stored information ? the limits of technology and the threat landscapeBricker & Eckler LLP"In the past few posts, we?ve discussed the problems associated with authenticating electronically stored information...

FTC Ossies Mew CAN-SPAM Act Rules

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: Lexology, June 20, 2008. FTC issues new CAN-SPAM Act rulesPepper Hamilton LLP"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently approved four new rules intended to clarify certain requirements of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, or the CAN-SPAM Act...

Duke University Creates 'Micro-Blog' System For Mobile Phones

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 20, 2008. Duke University Creates 'Micro-Blog' System For Mobile Phones"The experimental phone network uses geo-tagged data, mobile social networking, and "virtual sticky notes" to send and receive real-time information".

Former Nortel Executives Hit With Criminal Charges

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 20, 2008. Former Nortel Executives Hit With Criminal Charges"A former Nortel Networks chief executive and two of his lieutenants were charged on Thursday with fraudulently misstating financial results as the telephone equipment maker struggled to right itself after the tech bubble burst in 2001...

Verizon Boosts FiOS Internet Speed In 10 States

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 20, 2008. Verizon Boosts FiOS Internet Speed In 10 States"The company will increase its fastest Internet access offering from 30 Mbps (download) and 15 Mbps (upload) to a faster 50/20 Mbps service. "

Court Rules Employee Text Messages are Private

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, June 20, 2008. Court Rules Employee Text Messages Are Private "A Court of Appeals ruled in favor of a police officer and others who claimed that the City of Ontario, Calif. violated their Fourth Amendment rights...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines June 20, 2008

Posted on June 20, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, June 20, 2008. Subscription needed for online access:�� http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� New patent appeal rules draw fire"Patent lawyers are none too happy with the U...

List of Selected U.S. Federal Documents from Gallerywatch.com

Posted on June 20, 2008
Selected federal documents below from Gallery Watch.com may include references to government reporrts, Congressional letters, draft bills, and other primary source materials. Documents listed are accessible� through subscription to the GalleryWatch...

U.S. Supreme Court Update: Indiana v. Edwards

Posted on June 19, 2008
Source: Supreme Court Update: A Service from the ABA Criminal Justice Section� June 19, 2008. INDIANA v. EDWARDS"The Supreme Court decided that criminal defendants with a history of mental illness do not always have the right to represent themselves, even if they have been judged competent to stand trial...

New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from the New York Supreme Court NY County

Posted on June 19, 2008
In order to comply with�subscriptions agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Thursday, June 19, 2008 �� 1. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v...

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