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Detroit Launches Web Site For Citizens To Check Crime Trends

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 28, 2008. "Detroit residents now can use the Internet to check crime trends in their neighborhoods, reports the Detroit Free Press. The Detroit Police Department launched CrimeView Community this week. Users can use the Web site to search for recent crimes in areas of the city they select...

Violence is Down, But U.S. Has Two Big Crime Problems

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 28, 2008. "With violent crime down in the U.S., Republicans no longer try to paint Democrats as soft on crime, and Democrats no longer feel the need to prove themselves tough on the issue, writes Robert Gordon in The New Republic...

304,000 Deportation Elgible Immigrants are Jailed

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 28, 2008. "At least 304,000 immigrant criminals eligible for deportation are behind bars nationwide, reports the New York Times. It was the first official estimate of the total number of such convicts in federal, state and local prisons and jails...

Career Opportunity: Thomson West Librarian Relations Manager - Washington DC

Posted on March 28, 2008
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Proposed Amendment to SEC Privacy Rule for Safeguarding Information

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 28, 2008. Proposed amendment to SEC privacy ruleAddleshaw Goddard LLP"On 4 March 2008 the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a proposed rule to amend Regulation S?P to establish more specific requirements for safeguarding information and responding to information security breaches...

Book Publishing: Anticopying Software Disappears from Downloaded Audiobooks

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 28, 2008. Anticopying software disappears from downloaded audiobooksManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP"Following in the footsteps of several major digital music sellers, several of the world?s biggest book publishers are forgoing antipiracy technology on electronic downloads of audiobooks...

Forum Selection Clauses in Web Sites' Terms of Use Enforceable

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 28, 2008. Forum selection clauses in Web sites' terms of use enforceableWinston & Strawn LLP"Two recent cases have upheld a Web site's broad forum selection clause as binding on users, based on the users' actual or constructive acceptance of the Web sites' terms"

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines March 28, 2008

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: NLM.com, March 28, 2008. Subscription needed for online access. http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe_intermediate.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Trademark attorneys: It's madness to call it 'March Madness'"Lawyers are getting swept up in the March Madness frenzy, but not because of the basketball scores...

Comcast and BitTorrent Join On Network Management Plan

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source:InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 28, 2008. Comcast And BitTorrent Join On Network Management Plan"The 'protocol-agnostic' agreement is drawing mixed reactions from regulators, net neutrality advocates, and others."

"Future Mobile Phones Will Have Blazing Speed, Biochips To Diagnose Ailments"

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 28, 2008. Future Mobile Phones Will Have Blazing Speed, Biochips To Diagnose Ailments"DoCoMo said it has been able to demonstrate a mobile phone with a molecular delivery system for molecular communication, among other advances"

Xbox Live Cheaters Hit With Penalties

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 28, 2008 Xbox Live Cheaters Hit With Penalties"Microsoft reset cheaters' "gamerscore" accounts to zero and eliminated all past achievements. There is no appeal."

Adobe Launches Online Photoshop Beta

Posted on March 28, 2008
Source: Informationweek Daily Newsletter, March 28, 2008. Adobe Launches Online Photoshop Beta"The well-known company's entrance into online photo editing and sharing is likely to be felt by competing services like Picnik, Phixr, and Splashup."

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

Posted on March 28, 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 York Law Journal Lead Articles March 27, 2008

Posted on March 27, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to this service you should be able to click on any of the links proveded below, sign in, and access any of the decisions listed which interest you. http://www.nylj.com Insurers Told To Cover City's Defense Costs Subscription Required Senate Republicans Set to End Relationship With D...

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights March 27, 2008

Posted on March 27, 2008
If you are already an online subscriber to the LAW.COM service you should be able to click on any of the links below, sign in, and access the full text of all articles listed. A subscription to LAW.COM is needed for online access to this service...

Phoenix Rejects $8 Million Clain In Airport Cell Death Of Carol Gotbaum

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 27, 2008. "Phoenix officials rejected an $8 million wrongful-death claim from the family of Carol Gotbaum an hour after it was filed yesterday. The Arizona Republic says they issued a strongly worded letter laying the blame on her husband for letting the troubled New York woman fly to Arizona alone...

FBI Assails Washington Post Coverage of Its New York City Terror Unit

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 27, 2008. "The FBI has taken issue with the Washington Post's description of its relationship with the New York Police Department in the war on terror. Assistant FBI director John Miller wrote the newspaper that its March 22 front-page story "In New York, a Turf War in the Battle Against Terrorism," which was cited in Crime & Justice News, 'may have left readers with a seriously flawed impression of the FBI-New York Police Department Joint Terrorism Task Force, which goes back 28 years...

Los Angeles Times Apologizes For Story Based On Phony FBI Papers

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 27, 2008. "A Los Angeles Times story about a 1994 attack on rap superstar Tupac Shakur was partially based on documents that appear to have been fabricated, the newspaper says. Reporter Chuck Philips and his supervisor, Deputy Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin, issued statements of apology...

New York City Seeks Federal Benefits For Murdered Auxiliary Cops

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, March 27, 2008. "A Justice Department lawyer refused yesterday to watch a harrowing video of two New York City auxiliary cops being murdered - even though Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said it proved they were heroes who deserve federal recognition, reports the New York Daily News...

Critic: "Missouri Courts in 'Terrible Fix' Over DWI Error

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 27, 2008. "Three strikes in Missouri drunken driving cases and you go to prison. Or not, says the St. Louis Post- Dispatch. A Missouri Supreme Court ruling over a sloppy revision of the drunken driving law a decade ago seems sure to spare some offenders from prison, and to shorten prospective jail terms for others...

Reporrt Compares Justice Stands Of Key Presidential Candidates

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, March 27, 2008. "The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group, has issued a guide to platforms of the three leading presidential candidates on criminal justice issues involving sentencing. A few excerpts: Sen...

Qualcomm Six Live To Fight Another Day

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 27, 2008. Qualcomm Six live to fight another dayBricker & Eckler LLP"Recognizing that conditions had changed since Magistrate Judge Barbara L. Major had upheld Qulacomm?s right to assert the attorney-client privilege, Judge Rudi Brewster has vacated the sanctions against six of Qualcomm?s outside counsel, invoked the self-defense exception to the attorney-client privilege, and remanded the matter for a new hearing...

Dealing With an Agreement on Search Terms Gone Wrong

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source:Lexology, March 27, 2008 Court and parties rely on transcript for details of search protocol; disagreements ensueBricker & Eckler LLP"Fresh on the heels of Judge Facciola?s ?where angels fear to tread? comment in the O?Keefe case, referring to disputes over which search terms are more likely to produce information, we find Magistrate Judge Steven D...

Registered Trademark for Software Product Can Extend to Internet Uses

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: Lexology, March 27, 2008. Registered trademark for software product can extend to internet usesLewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP"When a trademark owner applies for a federal registration, it must describe, with a degree of specificity, the actual goods and/or services on which the mark is used".

Selections from the National Law Journal Daily Headlines March 27, 2008

Posted on March 27, 2008
Subscription needed for online access. FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Discrimination immunity uncertain for bulletin board Web sites"Two federal appeals courts may be marking the outer limits of legal protection from discrimination claims against Web sites like Craigslist...

Google Search Within Search Box Hurts Affiliates, Says IDC

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 27, 2008. Google Search Within Search Box Hurts Affiliates, Says IDC"Follow-up searches without leaving Google.com means any ad revenue generated by this second search goes to Google and not to site owners, particularly publishers"

Chinese Government Aims To Tame Hackers

Posted on March 27, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, March 27, 2008. Chinese Government Aims To Tame Hackers"A Chinese hacker's eight-year prison sentence is one of the toughest ever seen, according to a consultant."

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

Posted on March 27, 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 York Law Journal Decisions of Interest March 27, 2008

Posted on March 27, 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...

New York Law Journal Corporate Update March 27, 2008

Posted on March 27, 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 http://www.nylj.com Subscription required for online access unless otherwise noted...

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