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Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009

Posted on May 21, 2009
The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (S. 386: FERA) was passed by the Senate and signed by the President on May 20, 2009. Among other things the Bill makes changes to the False Claims Act. See more here...

Credit Cardholder's Bill of Rights Act of 2009

Posted on May 19, 2009
The Credit Cardholder's Bill of Rights Act passed the Senate by a vote of 90 to 5. See the vote on Govtrack.us here. The House version of the Bill is here. Posted by Jon Lutz

WolframAlpha

Posted on May 18, 2009
WolgramAlpha a new search tool has been released. Here's an excerpt from their website: Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every...

Employer's Access of MySpace Group Page

Posted on May 04, 2009
Interesting article on issues of freedom of speech and privacy relating to a password protected MySpace page. Two employees of a restaurant were fired after management gained access to a password protected MySpace account where employees had made derogatory statements...

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Swine Flu Updates

Posted on May 01, 2009
Swine Flu updates are available from Ebscohost: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed/h1n1/ Posted by Jon Lutz

Chrysler Ch. 11 Proceeding

Posted on April 30, 2009
The Chrysler Ch. 11 petition is available from Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/14802124/Chrysler-Ch11-Proceeding . Posted by Jon Lutz

End the University as We Know It

Posted on April 28, 2009
Interesting article in the New York Times, End the University as We Know It. Posted by Jon Lutz

Inquiry onto the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody

Posted on April 23, 2009
The Senate Armed Services Committee released the report Inquiry onto the Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody on April 21, 2009. It can be viewed here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Juror Tweets During Trial

Posted on April 16, 2009
From the ABAJournal Law New Now a story of a juror who twittered about the case during the trial. Here's an excerpt: "Juror Johnathan" may have been a bit of a twit, as the N.Y. Daily News said in a...

Iftikhar Chaudhry reinstated

Posted on March 25, 2009
Iftikhar Chaudhry has been reinstated as Pakistan's Chief Justice. See earlier posts on Iftikhar Chaudhry here and here. More information on his reinstatement here and here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Psion counter-sues Intel over trademark infringment

Posted on March 12, 2009
Thinking about buying a netbook, you might have to call it something else. Psion trademarked the name 'netbook' back in the early 2000s on a series of notebook computers. They didn't sell well and the line was ultimately discontinued in...

Google Target of Antitrust Lawsuit

Posted on February 20, 2009
Trademark.com has filed suit against Google claiming they violated the Sherman Act by attempting to quash smaller company's business by raising search rates when keyword searches reach a certain number.You can read more about this here, here and here...

Textual Misconduct

Posted on February 20, 2009
A recent article in Slate discusses the legal implications of sexting. Sexting is the name for sending nude photos via a cell phone. In a recent case in Greensburg, Pa. three teenage girls were arrested for sexting their boyfriends. The...

The End of BitTorrent?

Posted on February 16, 2009
Some of the people who run the BitTorrent site Pirate Bay are going on trial for copyright infringement in Stockholm Sweden. BitTorrent is a massive peer to peer download site. Here's an excerpt: (Read the whole article here.) "It's not...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

Posted on February 13, 2009
The compromise Senate stimulus bill can be viewed here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video

Posted on February 04, 2009
An interesting article posted in the New York Times reports that several Google executives may serve jail time for a video posted to Google Video. Here's an excerpt: The case involves a three-minute cellphone video, posted in 2006 to Google...

Digital Television Transition Extension Act of 2009

Posted on February 04, 2009
The House has voted to delay the analog to digital TV transition from February 17 to June 12. You can see the bill here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Senate Stimulus Bill

Posted on February 02, 2009
You can see the Senate Stimulus Bill S.336 here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Google Book Settlement

Posted on January 29, 2009
Information about the Google Book Settlement has been posted on the web. Here's a statement from Google Book Settlement site: This is the settlement administration website for the Google Book Search Copyright Class Action Settlement. The purpose of this website...

Legal Education Commons

Posted on January 28, 2009
CALI has created a Commons for sharing legal education materials. From their web page: The Legal Education Commons (LEC) is the place to find and share legal education materials including syllabi, podcasts, presentations, and more. Faculty and librarians from CALI...

Annotated Justinian Code

Posted on January 26, 2009
For those interested in Civil Law, the University of Wyoming is hosting an English translation of the Justinian Code with annotations. See it here. Posted by Jon Lutz

What's a Legal Simulation

Posted on January 26, 2009
Law School Innovation has an interesting post titled What's a legal simulation? Here's an excerpt:If Paul Maharg has his way, American law professors may soon have as much in common with the game referees in World of Warcraft than Prof....

Law Schools Customize Degrees to Students' Taste

Posted on January 23, 2009
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education discusses how law Schools are customizing law degrees. Here's an excerpt: The curriculum at law schools has undergone a major transformation in recent years, as many have set up niche programs to...

Barack's BlackBerry

Posted on January 23, 2009
Obama may get to keep his BlackBerry after all. See an earlier post here. Read an update here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Survey Gets Law-School Students' Thoughts on Laptops

Posted on January 07, 2009
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an article titled: Survey Gets Law-School Students' Thoughts on Laptops, Writing, and Ethics. The article discusses the role of laptops in law schools as well as writing and ethics and was based on a...

MSE360 search engine

Posted on January 06, 2009
A new search engine mse360 is worth a try. It displays Wikipedia and blog results to the left, web results center and image results to the right. Posted by Jon Lutz

Sony Digital Reader

Posted on January 05, 2009
The Kindle isn't the only digital reader, Sony also has an excellent digital reader. Here are some of its features: 6" Display E-ink paper-like touchscreen Built-in LED reading light Search, annotation, and highlighting capabilities Adjustable text sizes Long battery life...

Teknoids

Posted on January 04, 2009
Teknoids is a Drupal enhanced web site about technology use within a law school or law firm environment. It can be viewed at www.teknoids.net/. The site is brand new and while they are migrating content over from the old site,...

Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody

Posted on January 03, 2009
Senators Carl Levin and John McCain on December 11th released the Executive Summary and Conclusions of the Report on Treatment of Detainees in U.S. Custody.Read the Executive Summary here. More information can be found here. Posted by Jon Lutz

Investment Deficit in America

Posted on January 02, 2009
The Campaign for America's Future Center has released the Report The Investment Deficit In America: Yesterday's Achievements, Today's Problems, Tomorrow's Solutions. Here's an excerpt: America?s future growth and prosperity depend on a secure supply of affordableand sustainable energy...

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