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New York Passes Internet Tax Bill

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 1, 2008. New York passes internet tax billManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP"New York state lawmakers have passed a bill that would force many out-of-state Internet retailers to collect sales taxes on products shipped to addresses in the state...

ConsumerAffairs.com Faces Defamation Lawsuit

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: Lexology, May 1, 2008. ConsumerAffairs.com faces defamation lawsuitManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP"ConsumerAffairs.com touts itself as an online community for consumers to complain about every manner of consumer problem, from shabby furniture sets to crooked car dealers...

Google Refines Its Image Search Technology

Posted on May 01, 2008
By: Thomas Claburn Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 1, 2008. Google Refines Its Image Search Technology"Having won the text search war, Google may soon take the lead in image searching. In a paper published last week, Google researchers describe how they were able to use image recognition technology to reduce the number of irrelevant images returned through a Google Image search by 83%...

Programmer Hans Reiser Convicted of Murder

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 1, 2008. Programmer Hans Reiser Convicted Of Murder, Faces 25 Years To Life"Reiser was convicted this week of killing of his wife, Nina, whose body has not been found since her disappearance in 2006."

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Former UCLA Health Employee Charged With Selling Celebrity Records

Posted on May 01, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, May 1, 2008. Former UCLA Health Employee Charged With Selling Celeb Records To Media"The U.S. District Court indictment against a former administrative assistant does not appear related to leaks of Britney Spears' health information this year...

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

Posted on April 30, 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: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 �� 1. People v. Polanco2008 WL 1868444, 2008 N...

Media Seek Access To Court Records in R. Kelly Porn Case

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 30, 2008. "Chicago-area media outlets have gone to the Illinois Supreme Court to gain greater access to the pretrial proceedings in the R. Kelly child pornography case, reports the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago...

With Loopholes, Florida Approves Wrongful Conviction Compensation

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 30, 2008. "In what supporters called an historic attempt to correct injustice, the Florida Legislature yesterday approved automatic compensation for people sentenced to prison for crimes they did not commit, reports the Ft...

Justifiable Homicides Triple in Memphis

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 30, 2008. "Of Memphis's 55 homicides this year, 10 of them were justified, according to the law. No one was charged. No one will go to jail, says the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Last year, the number of justifiable homicides jumped to 32, nearly triple the total from 2006...

Juvenile Judges Group Misused $2.4 Million; Attorney Charges

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 30, 2008. "Serena Hulbert, who was fired as a 'troublemaker' after questioning billing practices at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, has filed suit charging that she was wrongfully terminated for questioning bogus grant transactions, reports the Reno Gazette-Journal...

Web 2.0, Clay Shirky On Widipedia, Sitcoms, And Gin: Where Do People Find the Time?

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 30, 2008 (Posting by Mitch Wagner April 29). Web 2.0: Clay Shirky On Wikipedia, Sitcoms, And Gin"Clay Shirky, an adjunct professor at NYU who studies social media, gave a stirring talk at Web 2.0 Expo last week on the Web 2...

New York City Police Accused of Racial Profiling in Minor Pot Arrests

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 30, 2008. "The New York Civil Liberties Union says the New York City police department arrested 350,000 people for misdemeanor marijuana possession over the past decade -- a tenfold increase achieved by systematically targeting young black and Hispanic men and stopping them without cause, reports Newsday...

Methamphetamine Pours into U.S. From Mexico; $30 Million Worth is Seized

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 30, 2008. "A U.S. crackdown on domestic methamphetamine labs has created opportunities for Mexican drug cartels and their "superlabs" to fill the void, report McClatchy Newspapers. Law enforcement agencies consider meth produced in Mexico to be the greatest drug menace in the Western U...

New York Court of Appeals Holds That Policyholder's Breach of Consent to Settle Clause Bars Coverage

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 30, 2008. New York Court of Appeals holds that policyholder?s breach of consent to settle clause bars coverageHunton & Williams LLP"In a recent decision, the New York Court of Appeals held that a policyholder?s breach of a consent to settle clause in a professional liability policy barred coverage for a policyholder?s settlement...

Reducing Risks and Increasing Efficiency in E-Discovery

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 30, 2008. Reducing risks and increasing efficiency in e-discoveryDewey & LeBoeuf LLP"December 2007 marked the first anniversary of the e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."

Google Adds Street View To Directions

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 30, 2008 Google Adds Street View To Directions"By combining the features, Google said users can now get a better picture of their route alongside turn by turn information."

Microsoft Again Delays Windows XMicrosoft Again Delays Windows XP SP3 Release

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 30, 2008. Microsoft Again Delays Windows XP SP3 Release"Microsoft is holding up the software update's release, this time after finding a compatibility issue with an electronic checkout system for retailers...

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

Posted on April 30, 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...

Selected National Law Journal Daily Headlines: April 30, 2008

Posted on April 30, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, April 30, 2008. Subscription needed for online access�� http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe_intermediate.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Study shows gender, racial disparity of post-law school debt"Seven years after graduating from law school, 66% of graduates still have debt and the average amount is approximately $57,000, according to the preliminary results of a new survey...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts April 29, 2008

Posted on April 30, 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: Auto Carrier, Not Homeowners, Must Compensate Man Who Slipped on Ice, Hit Head on Jack�"A homeowners policy's exclusion of bodily injury 'arising out of' maintenance, operation, ownership, or use of motor vehicles applies in the case of a man who struck his head on a bumper jack after the policy owner declined his offer of help in changing a flat tire...

North Carolina Courts Overturning Sex Offender Satellite Tracking

Posted on April 29, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 29, 2008. "Four North Carolina sex offenders hooked to satellite tracking systems had ankle bracelets and signal boxes removed after a judge ruled they shouldn't be subject to lifetime monitoring, reports the Raleigh News & Observer...

An Increase Reported in Murders, Other Attacks On the Homeless

Posted on April 29, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 29, 2008 "Attacks against homeless people increased from 142 in 2006 to 160 in 2007, says an unofficial count by the National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, reports USA Today...

After Exonerations, Dallas DA To Look At Non DNA Cases Also

Posted on April 29, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April, 29, 2008. "For 16 wrongly convicted defendants in Dallas County, DNA testing was the key that set them free after years - even decades - in prison. Because of the doubt those exonerations raised, Dallas prosecutors are taking an unprecedented look at convictions in which DNA evidence cannot conclusively prove guilt or innocence, says the Dallas Morning News...

Study Charges Racial Bias in Houston Death Penalty Decisions

Posted on April 29, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 29, 2008. "Of 1,100 U.S. executions in 3 decades, Harris County, Tx., which includes Houston, accounts for more than 100. The New York Times says a study to be published in The Houston Law Review found two sorts of racial disparities in the administration of the death penalty there...

Half Of Urban Felony Defendants End Up Behind Bars

Posted on April 29, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 29, 2008. "About half of felony defendants from large urban counties are convicted and sentenced to prison each year, reports a new survey from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Using data from 2004, the latest available, BJS said yesterday that of the roughly 57,000 defendants from the nation's 75 most populous counties, a little over 20 percent ended up in prison and another 30 percent went to jail...

Juvenile Judges Group Serttles $300,000 Federal False Claims Case

Posted on April 29, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, April 29, 2008. "The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges will pay $300,000 to settle allegations that it committed fraud to get grant money from the U.S. Department of Justice, reports Youth Today. The Justice Department charged that the Reno-based council falsified employee time sheets, billed the federal government for work by 'ghost' employees, used grant funds to hire the spouses of employees - including the husband of its executive director - and fired a worker for raising questions about those practices, said a federal court settlement" "The council did not admit wrongdoing; no one from the organization could be immediately reached for comment...

Bill Introduced in NY Legislature Would Add 39 Judges to Family Court Bench

Posted on April 29, 2008
An article in the April 29, 2008 New York Law Journal ( http://www.nylj.com)reports that the state Assembly's Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote tomorrow (April 30) on the bill A10615/S7585 which would create 14 additional family court judgeships in New York City and 25 elsewhere in the state of New York...

Schedule for Issuing Rebate Checks

Posted on April 29, 2008
The following information regarding the schedule for issuing rebate checks has been posted on the Taxgirl blog at http://www,taxgirl.com : President Bush has announced that the delivery of the rebate checks will happen sooner than initially planned...

Selections from National Law Journal Daily Headlines April 29, 2008

Posted on April 29, 2008
Source: NLJ.com, April 29, 2008. Subscription needed for online access�� http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe_intermediate.jsp FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Law firms, too, face credit woes"Law firms needing extra capital from banks to weather the rough economy are finding that the times ? and the terms ? have changed...

New Jersey Law Journal News Alert April 28, 2008

Posted on April 29, 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: Attorney Review, Where Appropriate, Chargeable in OPRA Cases�"When you ask the New Jersey Attorney General's Office for public records, be prepared to pay attorneys' fees - or rather, "special service charges" for staff lawyers' time and effort...

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