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Piracy Becomes Focus Of Net Neutrality Debate

Posted on May 07, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 7, 2008. Piracy Becomes Focus Of Net Neutrality Debate"The Recording Industry Association of America weighed in on the Internet traffic management issue at a House subcommittee hearing Tuesday."

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines May 7, 2008

Posted on May 07, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, May 7, 2008. Subscription needed for online access. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE | Florida U.S. attorney resigns"Greg Miller, U.S. attorney for the northern district of Florida, announced Monday that he would step down June 30...

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

Posted on May 07, 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...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts May 6-7, 2008

Posted on May 07, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New Jewsey 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: May 6, 2008 Judge's Pre-Retirement Ruling for Firm He Planned To Join Irks Supreme Court "It was pretty clear on Tuesday that the state Supreme Court didn't approve of what Judge Gerald Escala did just before retiring in 2005: rule for the client of a firm he was negotiating to join...

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

Posted on May 07, 2008
In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1. People v. Gonzales2008 WL 1932226 (Table, Text in WESTLAW), Unreported Disposition, 2008 N...

McCain Castigates Obama on Judges

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source:Law.com Newswire, May 6, 2008 (Afternoon). McCain Castigates Obama on JudgesThe Associated Press"Republican John McCain is castigating Democrat Barack Obama for voting against John Roberts as Supreme Court Chief Justice. McCain offered an olive branch to the Christian right in a speech about the kind of judges he would nominate planned for Tuesday at Wake Forest University...

Professor Said to Have Discovered Constitutional Flaw in Judicial Appointments

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 6, 2008. "John F. Duffy, who teaches at the George Washington University Law School, has discovered a constitutional flaw in the appointment process over the last eight years for judges who decide patent appeals and disputes, and his short paper documenting the problem seems poised to undo thousands of patent decisions concerning claims worth billions of dollars, reports the New York Times...

NYPD on Record Pace for Agressive 'Stop-and-Frisk' Strategy

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, May 6, 2008. "Despite criticism about aggressive policing, New York City police officers stopped more people on the streets during the first three months of 2008 than during any quarter in the six years, reports the New York Times...

New York School Official is Imprisoned for Theft

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 6, 2008. "Frank Tassone earns $1.05 a day working as a porter at a New York prison--far from his comfortable days as the superintendent of a Long Island school district, where he enjoyed lavish meals on the taxpayers, gambling junkets and frequent conferences in such playgrounds as Las Vegas...

Barring Intervention, Georgia Expected to Resume Executions Tonight

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 6, 2008. "Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, a condemned killer who shot his live-in girlfriend in Georgia likely is to become the first inmate put to death since a U.S. Supreme Court review halted executions last September, reports the Associated Press...

Two Studies Find Continued Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 6, 2008. "More than two decades after President Ronald Reagan escalated the war on drugs, arrests for drug sales or, more often, drug possession are still rising, reports the New York Times. And despite public debate and limited efforts to reduce them, large disparities persist in the rate at which blacks and whites are arrested and imprisoned for drug offenses, even though the two races use illegal drugs at roughly equal rates...

Chine Trademark Applications Continue to Surge

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 6, 2008. Chinese applications continue to surgeDechert LLP"The vast majority of applications filed with the Trademark Office come from U.S. businesses, but about 15% are from companies in other countries seeking to protect their marks in America...

Court Declines to Order Production of Native Format Files with Metadata: Cites Reliance on Outdated Version of Sedona Principles

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 6, 2008. Court declines to order production of native format files with metadata; cites failure to specifically request metadata and relies on outdated version of Sedona principlesBricker & Eckler LLP"In this dispute, Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole was asked to rule whether defendant was entitled to obtain re-production of a document entitled, EZTouch File Structure, which had been produced as a PDF and in hard copy...

New Communications Decency Act Cases Continue to Promote Internet Growtyh

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 6, 2008. New CDA cases continue to promote internet growthHogan & Hartson LLP"One of the most talked about statutes in the area of Internet law is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), the federal statute that shields Web sites from lawsuits arising out of third-party content and communications online...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines May 6, 2008

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, May 8, 2008. Subscription needed for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE | Law school's move opens door for exiting facultyMore than a dozen faculty members at troubled Ave Maria Law School have left either temporarily or permanently since the school announced a year-and-a-half ago it was moving to Florida...

Google Seeks Open Access Assurances From Verizon Wireless

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 6, 2008. Google Seeks Open Access Assurances From Verizon Wireless "Google has doubts that Verizon Wireless will honor the open access provisions that come with the freshly-won spectrum it nabbed in the FCC 700-MHz auction...

Ballmer: Microsoft's Web Strategy Doesn't Stop With Yahoo

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 6, 2008. Ballmer: Microsoft's Web Strategy Doesn't Stop With Yahoo"Microsoft will continue to improve search relevance, build out its own advertising platform, invest in engineering for the Web, and pursue partnerships around the world...

Hewlett Packard Launches 'Extreme' Storage System

Posted on May 06, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 6, 2008. HP Launches 'Extreme' Storage System"Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme is designed for Web companies and other organizations that need multipetabytes of data storarge."

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

Posted on May 06, 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...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts

Posted on May 06, 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: Senate Panel Approves Nominations of Judge Donohue and Two Newcomers "Joseph Donohue, whose nomination for tenure as a Union County judge was held up until ethics charges against him were found baseless, got a unanimous nod Monday from the Senate Judiciary Committee, which also approved nominees for Mercer and Atlantic counties...

Lawyers Question Proposed Rules Governing Foreign

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source:Law.com Newswire, May 5, 2008 2:03PM Lawyers Question Proposed Rules Governing Foreign Investment in U.S.The Deal"Treasury Department officials on Friday listened to Washington attorneys rattle off a raft of concerns about the Bush administration's plans for new rules governing foreign acquisitions of U...

Placement Opportunity: Senior Associate Librarian

Posted on May 05, 2008
Senior Associate Librarian The Cadence Group Cadence Group is seeking an experienced librarian/researcher in . This person will be reporting to the information resources manager. The candidate will be responsible for providing expert reference and research services and will lead and/or provide support for local and firm-wide library projects and initiatives...

Why Detectives Dress Well "Suits Mean Business"

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 5, 2008. The New York Times explores why so many police detectives dress so well. "The tradition of the dapper detective runs through years of law enforcement, surviving the rough-and-tumble of gritty streets and a trend [] toward dress-down Fridays and casual attire," the paper says...

CeaseFire Program Had Impact On Chicago Shooting Decline: Study

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 5, 2008. "Even as homicide rates have declined across the U.S., gunplay plagues economically struggling minority communities. For 25 years, murder has been the leading cause of death among African-American men between the ages of 15 and 34...

AT&T Launches Mobile TV Service For Cell Phones

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 5, 2008. AT&T Launches Mobile TV Service For Cell Phones"The AT&T service will be available 58 markets and give customers access to more than 150 programs from a variety of TV networks, cable channels, and exclusive content providers...

Some States Embrace Early Releases to Save Money

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 5, 2008. "Reversing decades of tough-on-crime policies, many cash-strapped states are embracing a view once dismissed as naive: It costs far less to let some felons go free than to keep them locked up, reports the Washington Post...

Expert Explains Study Doubting Illegal Immigration-Crime Link

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 5, 2008. "Is there something about being an immigrant -- particularly an illegal immigrant -- that makes you more likely than anyone else to commit a crime? Many studies on the topoic are simultaneously touted and debunked by people on various sides of the issue, reports The Oregonian...

Few Details Available On 66 Deaths in U.S. Immigration Custody

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, May 5, 2008. "A government list of deaths that occurred in immigration custody from January 2004 to November 2007, when nearly a million people passed through, includes 66 names, says the New York Times. The list, compiled by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after Congress demanded the information, and obtained by the Times under the Freedom of Information Act, is the fullest accounting to date of deaths in immigration detention, a patchwork of federal centers, county jails and privately run prisons that has become the nation's fastest-growing form of incarceration...

Private Prisons Under Fire For Treatment Of Immigration Detainees

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, May 5, 2008. "As immigration laws have become tougher, the federal government has found itself with a logistical challenge: where to house a population that has swollen to more than 30,000 detainees. The solution, says the San Diego Union-Tribune: Turn them over to the private sector...

Amazon Sues New York State Over Online Sales Tax Law

Posted on May 05, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 5, 2008. Amazon Sues New York State Over Online Sales Tax Law"The company argues that it should not be subject to New York taxes because it lacks a physical presence in the state. "

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