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Myspace, State Attorneys General Reach Agreement on Social Networking Safety Principles

Posted on February 04, 2008
Source: Lexology, February 4, 2008. Myspace, state Attorneys General reach agreement on social networking safety principlesDLA Piper"Attorneys General in 49 states (and the District of Columbia) have announced that MySpace has agreed to a framework of social networking safety principles aimed at enhancing the safety of minors who use its service...

Microsoft - Yahoo Integration: Proposal and Challenges

Posted on February 04, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, February 2, 2008. Microsoft Proposes To Buy Yahoo For $31 Share, In $44.6-Billion Deal"Read the full details of Microsoft's proposal, put out by Redmond headquarters on Friday morning, along with Steve Ballmer's letter to the Yahoo board of directors...

Google Launches Social Graph API

Posted on February 04, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, February 4, 2008. Google Launches Social Graph API"By making social data more portable, Google is hoping to make social networks like Facebook and MySpace less relevant."

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

Posted on February 04, 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...

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New York Legislature: Activity Report for Week Ending February 3, 2008.

Posted on February 04, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Research System (LRS), February 3, 2008 Categories Indluded: Corrections Law, Criminal Procedure Law, Judiciary Law, Penal Law. CORRECTIONS LAW: Bill No. S6825 LANZA -- Provides for family members of a crime victim and interested parties to make statements to members of the parole board No Same as Last Act: 01/25/08 REFERRED TO CODES Last Action Date: 01/28/08(Results Count = ) Bill No...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest February 4, 2008

Posted on February 04, 2008
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New York Law Journal Featured Columnists February 4, 2008

Posted on February 04, 2008
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New York Law Journal Lead Articles February 4, 2008

LAW.COM Newswire Highlights February 4, 2008

Posted on February 04, 2008
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Report Predicts Increased Investment, and More Implementation of Web 2.0 Technologies

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source: CIO Insider, February 1, 2008. A Report recently released by Forrester predicts that big organizations will adopt user-friendly tools like RSS, social networking, blogs and wikis to encourage internal collaboration. This presumably includes government agencies at various levels and other public organiaations as well as those in the private sector...

Balancing Copyright Protection Rights at Both Ends of the Pipe

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source: Jackson, William. "Balancing Rights at Both Ends of the Pipe," Government Computer News (January 31, 2008). "Copyright protection is a contentious subject, complicated by the proliferation of digital content and the media to transmit, copy and play it...

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

Posted on February 01, 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 Jersey Law Journal State Decisions January 31, 2008

Posted on February 01, 2008
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New Jersey Law Journal News Alerts January 31, 2008

Posted on February 01, 2008
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New York Appellate Criminal Cases Originating from the New York Supreme Court NY County

Posted on February 01, 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: Friday, February 01, 2008 1. People v. Minucci2008 WL 250350, 2008 N...

New York Law Journal Decisions of Interest February 1, 2008

Posted on February 01, 2008
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New York Law journal Featured Columnists February 1, 2008

Posted on February 01, 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://nylj.com Subscription needed for online access. Communications and Media LawFriday, February 1, 2008By James C...

New York Law Journal Lead Articles February 1, 2008

Posted on February 01, 2008
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LAW.COM Newswire Highlights February 1, 2008

Posted on February 01, 2008
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New York Legislature: 2008 Chapter Law List

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), February 1, 2008. Chapter Law List as of Friday February 1, 2008. Sorted in descending order (last chapter listed first): CHAPTER Bill No. Title10 S6773 ROBACH -- Relates to compensation benefits and other terms and conditions of employment of certain state officers state officers and employees; repealer;appropriation 9 S6549 FUSCHILLO -- Relates to special academic grants to the Roosevelt Union Free school district; makes an appropriation to defray the deficit of such school district 6 S6509 LEIBELL -- Provides a real property tax exemption for Cold War veterans 5 S6495 MALTESE -- Relates to provisional employees of certain public employers 4 S6487B MAZIARZ -- Relates to a review of the condition of cafeterias in school districts of N...

LAW.COM Newswire February 1, 2008 (UPDATE)

Posted on February 01, 2008
Subscription needed for online access. South Korean Court Gives Lone Star Head 5 Years for Stock FraudThe Deal"A South Korean court Friday unexpectedly found Lone Star Funds' local head guilty of stock price manipulation and sentenced him to five years' imprisonment...

New York Police Department Orders Audit of Crime Scene Unit After Slipups

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, February 1, 2008. "New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly has hired an outside expert to examine his department's famed crime scene unit after a series of investigative screwups, reports the New York Daily News...

Chicagocrime.org Replaced By EveryBlock.com

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, February 1, 2008. "The chicagocrime.org Web site is being closed and combined with a new site called EveryBlock, says founder Adrian Holovaty on his blog. Chicagocrime.org, operating since May 2005, offered a page and RSS feed for every city block in Chicago and several ways to browse crime data - by type, by location type (e...

Gun Control Group Ranks State Laws: Calls California Best

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source:Crime and Justice News, February 1, 2008. "Officials in most states have done little to keep criminals and other dangerous people from easily obtaining guns, contends the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The organization issued state 'scorecards' yesterday...

Michigan Governor Hranholm Hopes To Trim State Prison Population

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, February 1, 2008. "Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm will take another shot at scaling back the state prison population this year and she intends to shift cost savings into law enforcement and education, reports the Detroit News...

Cold Case Squads Victim of Government Funding Cuts

Posted on February 01, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, February 1, 2008. "Cold case squads around the U.s. are being cut back or eliminated as police departments face tightening budgets and shifting law enforcement priorities, USA Today reports. 'I don't think many of them are going to do it anymore,' said James Adcock of the Henry C...

From the New York Times January 31, 2008

Posted on January 31, 2008
Source: NYTimes.com, January 31, 2008. Pakistani Justice Breaks SilenceBy SALMAN MASOOD"Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, the former chief justice of Pakistan, lambasted President Pervez Musharraf for squashing Pakistan?s independent judiciary." Israeli Inquiry Finds ?Grave Failings? in ?06 WarBy STEVEN ERLANGER"The report was less scathing about Prime Minister Ehud Olmert than expected, and he is likely to keep his post...

Massachusetts: Panel to Study Conduct Rules on Judges' Public Comments

Posted on January 31, 2008
Source: National Law Journal.com: Daily Headlines, January 31, 2008. WEB-ONLY | Panel to study conduct rules on judges' public commentsI"n the wake of national criticism of a Massachusetts state court judge's release of a convicted murderer on personal recognizance, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court tapped an ad hoc advisory committee to study rules about public comment by judges in the state's Code of Judicial Conduct...

Is January 2008 The Beginning of the End of Anonymity on the Internet?

Posted on January 31, 2008
Source: Lexology, January 31, 2008. January 2008: the beginning of the end of anonymity on the internet?Steptoe & Johnson LLP"How do you know the [person] you met online isn't a serial killer?"

Resolving Domain Name Disputes: A Primer

Posted on January 31, 2008
Source: Lexology, January 31, 2008. Resolving domain name disputes: a primerWilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP"A few years ago, if a child searching for information about Hannah Montana accidentally visited the website Disneychanel.com (as opposed to DisneyChannel...

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