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New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library

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Regulators Stalk Online Tracking

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 16, 2008. Regulators stalk online trackingWiley Rein LLP"In February, Privacy In Focus® reported that privacy regulators are closing in online"

Virginia Enacts Security Breach Law

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 16, 2008. Virginia enacts security breach lawFoley & Lardner LLP"Virginia recently became the 40th state to enact a security breach law, Va. Code Ann. § 18.2-186.6, which becomes effective on July 1, 2008."

Spear-Phishing Attack Uses Fake Subpoenas to Steal from CEO's

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter April 16, 2008. Spear-Phishing Attack Uses Fake Subpoenas To Steal From CEOs"iDefense estimates that the attack went out to about 15,000 to 20,000 executives, resulting in about 1,800 confirmed malware victims...

Windows XP SP3 Pegged for Release on April 21

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 16, 2008. Windows XP SP3 Pegged For Release On April 21"OEMs and Microsoft's friends will get the pack first followed by the rest of Windows XP users through Microsoft's online Windows Update service a week later...

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Yahoo Launches Upgraded Search Crawler

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 16, 2008. Yahoo Launches Upgraded Search Crawler"As the rollout of Slurp 3.0 begins, sites using IP-based recognition of crawlers might see a drop in Yahoo activity, the company said."

How to Put Google Street View to Practical Use

Posted on April 16, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 16, 2008 How To Put Google Street View To Practical Use"Google Street View can scope out real estate, travel destinations, and even save you from your next parking ticket -- all from your desktop, laptop, or smartphone browser...

Crime and Justice News Marks 5th Anniversary Today

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 15, 2008. "Crime & Justice News began five years ago today. Since April 15, 2003, Criminal Justice Journalists has compiled digests of more than 15,400 stories, studies, and reports on criminal justice issues...

Federal Officials Urge States To Copy Arizona Inmate Deportation Plan

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 15, 2008. "Top federal immigration officials want other states to copy an Arizona program that releases non-violent, illegal-immigrant inmates from state prisons and deports them, reports the Arizona Republic...

North Carolina Seeks Federal Review of its Parole System

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 15, 2008. "North Carolina's corrections chief wants an indNoependent evaluation of state parole system in light of problems exposed in the handling of the two parolees charged with murdering the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill student body president, reports the Raleigh News & Observer...

After Parolee Murder-Suicide, Illinois Tightens Releases

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 15, 2008. "Less than a week after Mersaides McCauley was killed by a parolee who had been charged with domestic battery and released, Illinois' Department of Corrections made sweeping changes that would keep certain parolees, like her accused killer, in custody, reports the Chicago Tribune...

Michigan, National Council To Study Ways Of Controlling Prison Costs

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 15, 2008. "Michigan's prison crunch will continue until at least 2010, because policymakers have abandoned plans to revise sentencing policies and free old, sick and nonviolent convicts, reports the Detroit News...

Clinton, Obama Avoid Detailed Gun Control Stands in Pennsylvania

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 15, 2008. "A week before the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are avoiding firm stands on gun control in a state where the issue arouses deep emotions, reports the Associated Press...

Gun Control Advocates See Some State Legislative Headway

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 15, 2008. "Many state legislatures are considering new restrictions on guns after a decade in which gun advocates dominated legislative action, reports the New York Times. In all, 38 states have gun bills pending, many focused on cutting off gun access to convicted criminals and the mentally ill and on improving methods to trace guns used in crimes...

Selections from the New York Times: April 15, 2008.

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: NYTimes.com, April 15, 2008. Subscription needed for online access: A Living Memorial After Virginia TechBy IAN URBINA"The parents of a victim of last year?s Virginia Tech killings have honored her memory with an organization that repairs dilapidated houses in Appalachia...

Court Throws Out Freelancers' Settlement Over Electronic Copyrights

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 15, 2008. Court throws out freelancers' settlement over electronic copyrightsFulbright & Jaworski LLP"Just last year, freelance writers and publishers finally reached a settlement of a 15-year-old dispute over who owns the copyright to electronic reprints of unregistered written works...

More Stringent Terms in FTC's 2008 Data Security Cases

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source:Lexology, April 15, 2008. More stringent terms in FTC?s 2008 data security casesVenable LLP"After going all of 2007 without any public law enforcement actions involving data security, the Federal Trade Commission (?FTC?) kicked off 2008 with the announcements of settlements of two data security investigations within the first nine weeks of the year...

Websites Will Find No Friend in Court's CDA Ruling

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 15, 2008. Websites will find no friend in court's CDA rulingSteptoe & Johnson LLP"Courts continue to poke holes in websites' liability protections."

FBI Posts Links to Snare Child Pornography Suspects

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 15, 2008. FBI posts links to snare child pornography suspectsField Fisher Waterhouse LLP"It has been reported that the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been using fake hyperlinks to snare child porn suspects...

States Poised to Adopt Digital IDs

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: Government Computer News: Daily Update, April 15, 2008. States poised to adopt digital IDs "Case study: Some states have begun issuing IDs compatible with federal Personal Identity Verification cards to emergency responders, and one state has cross-certified with the federal PKI bridge for authenticating digital certificates...

Cell Phone Freedom Day in Cuba

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 15, 2008. Today Is Cell Phone Freedom Day In Cuba"Before today, it was illegal for everyday citizens in Cuba to purchase and use a cell phone. President Raul Castro, Fidel's brother, has relaxed some policies, much to the joy of many...

Live Mesh To Push Microsoft's Synchronization Strategy

Posted on April 15, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, April 15, 2008. Live Mesh To Push Microsoft's Synchronization Strategy"Synchronization has become a major theme for Microsoft's online strategy, and the forthcoming launch of Live Mesh at next week's Web 2...

U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Review 30 Year Term For Teen Killer

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008. "The Supreme Court today refused to review a 30-year prison sentence for a teen who was 12 when he killed his grandparents in South Carolina, reports the Associated Press. Christopher Pittman wanted the justices to examine whether the long prison term violates the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment...

U.S. Supreme Court May Take Case Threatining Prosecutors' Immunity

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008. "Prosecutors long have been shielded from lawsuits brought by people who were wrongly convicted. The Supreme Court has ruled that 'absolute immunity' is needed so that prosecutors and judges can do their jobs without fear of legal retaliation, says the Los Angeles Times...

Philadelphia Police Instructed on Fine Points of "Stop And Frisk"

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008. "The Philadelphia Police Department has begun preparing officers to respond to Mayor Michael Nutter's promise to step up stop-and-frisk tactics to help rid the streets of illegal weapons, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports...

One Year After Virginia Tech, False Campus Crime Reports Spread

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008. "Media attention and new campus alert systems set up after the mass shootings at Virginia Tech may be responsible for a recent jump in false crime reports on college campuses nationwide, reports the Raleigh News & Observer...

Molestation Victims of Connecticut Probation Officer Commit Abuse

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008. "As first-time offenders, teenage boys got no jail time when they appeared before a judge in Superior Court in eastern Connecticut. Each got something that would turn out to be far worse -- a probation officer named Richard Straub, says the Hartford Courant in the first of two articles...

More States Permit DNA Testing of Crime Suspects

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008. "States are dramatically expanding DNA sampling beyond convicted felons to include suspects arrested for felonies before they are tried, says USA Today. Twelve states permit sampling for some or all felony arrests, up from five in 2006, says the National Conference of State Legislatures...

Michigan Governor: Efforts To Grow Economy Threatened by Prison Costs

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, April 14, 2008 "Michigan runs one of the nation's largest and most costly prison systems, a $2 billion-a-year expense that crowds out other priorities at a rate many officials fear the state can no longer afford, reports the Detroit News...

SEC Proposes Increased Requirements Under Regulation S-P

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 14, 2008. SEC proposes increased requirements under Regulation S-PPepper Hamilton LLP"In an effort to bolster the privacy of consumer financial information, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently published proposed amendments to Regulation S-P (see 73 Fed...

Behavioral Advertising Under Attack

Posted on April 14, 2008
Source: Lexology, April 14, 2008. Behavioral advertising under attackHogan & Hartson LLP"The area of online 'behavioral advertising' ? often ill-defined and perhaps misunderstood ? is being criticized as anti-consumer on several fronts".

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