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U.S. Supreme Court: Police May Use Evidence After Wrongful Arrest

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, April 23, 2008 "Police may conduct searches and seize evidence after arrests that sometimes violate state law, says a Supreme Court ruling today reported by the Associated Press. The unanimous decision is in a case from Portsmouth, Va...

"Volatile Mix" Of Prison Gang Members Can Spark Violence

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 23, 2008. "In the racially divided world of prisons, even the slightest misstep may lead to trouble, reports the Rocky Mountain News. A Hispanic gang sells drugs to a white gang's customers. A white guy uses the black guys' urinal...

U.S. Still Tops Russia As World Leader in Incarceration

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 23, 2008. "The U.S. has under 5 percent of the world's population but almost a quarter of its prisoners, 2.3 million people. The New York Times notes that Americans are locked up for crimes, from writing bad checks to using drugs, that rarely would lead to prison sentences in other countries...

Identifying and Preserving Potentially Relevant Electronic Information

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 23, 2008. Identifying and preserving potentially relevant electronic informationFulbright & Jaworski LLP"The list of considerations in this document are intended to serve as a quick reference guide for a company's counsel during the initial preservation process...

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Is Your Organization Protected Against the Newest Cyber Threats

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 23, 2008. Is your organization protected against the newest cyber threats?Miller Canfield Paddock & Stone"Moving beyond traditional hacking and sending viruses through spam e-mail messages, perpetrators of cyber crime are employing various new techniques to threaten datasecurity".

Are Hospitability Entity Websites Subject to the ADA?

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 23, 2008. Are hospitality entity websites subject to the ADA?Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP"The Americans with Disabilities Act ('ADA') prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability 'in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations of any place of public accommodation...

Infected Web Pages Newrly Triple

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 23, 2008. Infected Web Pages Nearly Triple"Sophos says that it discovered a new infected Web page every 5 seconds. In 2007, the company says, it saw new infected Web pages every 14 seconds."

FCC Chief Says Comcast Blocked Traffic Even During Slow Times

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 23, 2008. FCC Chief Says Comcast Blocked Traffic Even During Slow Times"FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told Congress it appears that Comcast used technology that completely blocks certain traffic, like peer-to-peer file sharing"...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines April 23, 2008

Posted on April 23, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, April 23, 2008. Subscription needed for online access.�� http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe_intermediate.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Giuliani's next campaign: appellate limelight"Rudy Giuliani, having cast off his presidential ambitions for the moment, is targeting a new goal: creating a name for his law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani, in the appellate practice area...

Fatal Shootings Of Police Officers Drop After Last Year's Spike

Posted on April 22, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "An emphasis on defensive tactics and weapons training is contributing to a dramatic reduction in police officer fatalities after one of the deadliest years in two decades, USA Today reports...

Prison Overcrowding Health Problems

Posted on April 22, 2008
Source: Crime & Justice News "California, home to 1 in 10 U.S. state prison inmates, is getting a nudge from the federal courts to move faster to revamp its overcrowded prisons, says the Christian Science Monitor. Already moving on an extensive $7...

Appellate Argument: An Artist?s View

Posted on April 22, 2008
Today's New York Times Sidebar column, 'Appellate Argument: An Artist?s View',�by Adam Liptak discusses appellate advocacy and Chief Justice Roberts views on this subject. It is available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/22bar.html?_r=1&ex=1366603200&en=1152ef6ee9490b61&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin Submitted by Theodore Pollack, Sr...

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights

Posted on April 22, 2008
News articles listed below can be viewed in full text by first clicking on the Law.Com Newsfeed on the left side and then scrolling down to the appropriate article. If the article you are searching does not appear go to the top of the screen and click on Law...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest

Posted on April 22, 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. Click here to go to www.nylj.com Schultes, appellant v...

New York Law Journal Lead Articles

Posted on April 22, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to New York Law Journal you should be able to click on any of the links provided below, sign in, and access the full text of articles listed Click here to go to www.nylj.com Court Contracts Defer Raises For Salaries Above $115,000 Non-judicial employees of the Office of Court Administration making $115,000 or more a year would have raises deferred until state judges get their long-sought pay hikes, under tentative contract agreements reached between OCA and 10 bargaining units...

Employment Opportunity: Librarian - U.S. Attorney Office - Washington, D.C.

Posted on April 21, 2008
Subject: Librarian position at USDOJ - US Attorney Office in DC LIBRARIAN, GS-1410-12 SALARY RANGE: $69,764 - $90,698 OPEN PERIOD: April 15, 2008 - May 14, 2008 POSITION INFORMATION: Full-Time Permanent DUTY LOCATIONS: 1 vacancy - Washington, DC You will find more information in the link below about the job posting at the U...

Houston Funeral Homes Run Hearses As Anticrime Statement

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 21, 2008, "A procession of 17 hearses in Houston yesterday stopped traffic on the highways, turned heads in some of the highest-crime neighborhoods, and made jaws drop at strip malls, bus stops, and apartment complexes across the city...

Dallas Studies 24 Hour Court for Minor Infractions

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 21, 2008. "Dallas may open a 24-hour court to process people arrested for many minor infractions immediately, reports the Dallas Morning News. The change could eventually save the city about $1 million a year...

Pennsylvania Facing More Prison Building, Ecplores New York's Treatment Options

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 21, 2008. "As New York State closes some prisons, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell says a spending increase is necessary in his state, in large part because of rising prison costs. His warning came at a time when several states, led by New York, are beginning to move away from mandatory sentencing for nonviolent drug and property crimes and toward alternative sentencing and expanded drug and mental- health treatment along with early release for good behavior...

Judges Deny Legal Aid To Many Seeking Lower Crack Sentences

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News,� April 21, 2008. "As federal courts take on the unprecedented task of deciding whether thousands of prisoners should receive lower sentences for crimes involving crack cocaine, some judges are telling poor convicts that they won't get lawyers to help them argue for leniency, say McClatchy Newspapers...

Second Generation DNA Tests May Prove Controversial

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 21, 2008. "Twenty years after DNA fingerprints were admitted by courts to link suspects to crime scenes, a new and very different class of genetic test is approaching the bench, reports the Washington Post. Rather than simply proving, for example, that the blood on a suspect's clothes does or does not match that of a murder victim, 'second generation' DNA tests seek to shed light on biological traits and psychological states of the accused...

Nanotechnology Regulation Sloly Beginning to Appear

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 21, 2008. Nanotechnology regulation slowly beginning to appearThompson Hine LLP"Although there is no universally accepted definition, nanotechnology can be described as the science of manipulating materials at the nanoscale level to produce unique or enhanced materials, products and devices...

Authorized Computer Access by Departing Employee Not Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Violation

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 21, 2008. Authorized computer access by departing employee not CFAA violationThelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner"A departing employee, who copied proprietary files while still having full access to his employer's protected computer databases, did not access information ?without authorization? or otherwise "exceed authorized access" under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)...

Ninth Circuit Limits Statutory Immunity of Web Site Operators for User-Generated Content

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 21, 2008. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals limits statutory immunity of web site operators for user-generated contentLatham & Watkins"Since enactment of the Communications Decency Act in 1996, a developing body of case law across the US has led providers of interactive computer services, including Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and owners and operators of Web sites that allow users to post content (collectively, Service Providers), to believe that they can depend upon robust immunity from liability for content that is posted on their Web sites by third parties...

Police Officer's Termination For Operation of Adult Web Site Upheld on Police Department's Concerns of Disruption

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 21, 2008. Police officer?s termination for operation of adult Web site upheld on police department?s legitimate concerns of disruptionThelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner"A police officer?s termination for the operation of an adult Web site was justified where the content on the site did not qualify as a matter of public concern and the police department presented reasonable concerns about potential disruption to its operations...

YouTube Changes Policy Enforcement

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 21, 2008. YouTube Changes Up Policy Enforcement"YouTube has modified the way in which it will go after those who post copyrighted material or objectionable videos. Of course, the new rules stirred some outrage among certain users who feel targeted by the 'YouTube Police' ".

Don't Be A Control Freak

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily, April 21, 2008 Don't Be A Control Freak"ow can CIOs control the end run around IT? They can't -- that's the lesson from a new CIO survey. Live with it, loosen up, and keep track of where IT dollars actually are going...

FCC Hearing On Network Management Draws Net Neutrality Supporters

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 21, 2008. FCC Hearing On Network Management Draws Net Neutrality Supporters"Speakers at the Stanford University meeting want policymakers to require cable and telecommunications companies to manage Internet traffic in a non-discriminatory way"

MacBook Pro Customers Report Blank Screens

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 21, 2008. MacBook Pro Customers Report Blank Screens"The display problem occurred after users deployed the high-end notebook's latest firmware upgrade."

Web 2.0 Expo Coverage4

Posted on April 21, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 21, 2008. Web 2.0 Expo Preview: Web 2.0 Isn't Just About The Apps"Businesses need to transform to adopt Web 2.0. But it isn't easy, as Dell's experience -- trying to address rotten customer service with Web 2...

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