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List of Selected Articles from the New York Times January 24, 2008

Posted on January 24, 2008
Source: NYTimes.com Daily Headlines, January 24, 2008 F.D.A. Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug TrialsBy GARDINER HARRIS"Makers of drugs to treat obesity, depression and many other conditions are being asked for the first time to include suicide assessments in their clinical trials" Justice Nomination Seen as Snub to DemocratsBy PHILIP SHENON and ERIC LICHTBLAU"The White House renominated the Justice Department lawyer who wrote a series of classified legal opinions in 2005 authorizing harsh C...

NYPD Corruption: Noble Cause or Simply Crack Dealing?

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 23, 2008. "The latest narcotics corruption scandal among New York police offers a striking example of officers who appeared to have gone too far to make arrests. One law enforcement official called it 'noble-cause corruption,' reports the New York Times...

Lawyers Kept Secret As Innocent Man Spent 25 Years in Prison

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 23, 2008. "For 25 years, defense lawyers Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz were bound by the rules of law to hold onto a secret that now could mean freedom for a man serving a life sentence for murder. The secret -- memorialized in a notarized affidavit that they locked in a metal box -- was that their client, Andrew Wilson, admitted that he shotgunned to death a security guard at a Chicago McDonald's restaurant in January 1982...

After Triple Murder, Connecticut Moves to Reform Criminal Laws

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 23, 2008. "Six months after the triple slaying in Cheshire, the Connecticut House of Representatives approved comprehensive reforms to the state's criminal laws early Wednesday, including a new crime of 'home invasion'' for anyone who breaks into an occupied home, reports the Hartford Courant...

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In Utah, Loophole Overlooked Gun Used in Domestic Murder

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 23, 2008. "Seven states take guns away from a person covered by a domestic violence protection order. In another 12, judges issuing the orders are explicitly allowed to ask police to seize a gun. Utah isn't among them, reports the Salt Lake Tribune...

Fighting Drug Corruption, Mexico Suspends Police in Border Cities

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 23, 2008. "Local police were relieved of duty Tuesday in the border cities of Nuevo Laredo, Matamoros and Reynosa as army troops disarmed the officers and searched for evidence that might link them to drug traffickers, reports the Los Angeles Times...

"Do New York City School Safety Protocols Prepare Students for Life or Prison?"

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 23, 2008. "Some education advocates wonder whether the aggressive safety protocols at many school buildings in New York have the psychological effect of preparing students not for life, but for a life of confinement...

Cincinnati Citizens Paid $10M for Rental of Empty Jail Cells

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 23, 2008. "Hamilton County, Ohio, taxpayers spent $833,755 for empty jail cells in Butler County under an agreement that paid for 300 jail cells a night - whether they were filled or not. The jail-space agreement - a temporary solution to the county's long-term jail space crisis - cost Hamilton County taxpayers about $10 million...

Say Good-Bye to Wi-Fi

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: PC Magazine: Product Wire, January 23, 2008 Say Good-Bye to Wi-Fi"Kiss the days where you had to hunt around for a decent Wi-Fi hotspot goodbye. Three major cellular service providers now have nationwide high-speed data networks to connect PCs and Macs to the Internet pretty much anywhere...

Web Sites Ignore New FTC Privacy Guidelines at their Peril

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, January 23, 2008. Sites ignore new FTC privacy guidelines at their perilManatt Phelps & Phillips LLP "In December, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Web sites to voluntarily do two things: (1) enhance disclosure about user data they collect, and (2) ask permission before monitoring user Web activity...

Media Law Bulletin: 2007 Media Year in Review

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: Lexology, January 23, 2008 2007 media year in reviewSedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP "This issue of Media Law Bulletin provides a snapshot of major media, entertainment and intellectual property legal developments in 2007."

First Circuit to Examine Voting Rights for Felons

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: The National Law Journal: Daily Headlines, January 23, 2008. Subscription need for online access. WEB-ONLY �|� 1st Circuit to examine voting rights for felons"A federal judge in Boston has issued a ruling allowing an interlocutory appeal of a lawsuit challenging a Massachusetts state constitutional amendment and a state law banning imprisoned felons from voting in state and federal elections...

Highlights from the New York Times Headlines January 23, 2008

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: NYTimes.com, January 23, 2008. ECONOMIC SCENEWorries That the Good Times Were a MirageBy DAVID LEONHARDT"For years many spent freely. Now comes the big payback." Padilla Gets 17 Years in Conspiracy CaseBy KIRK SEMPLE"The sentence for the accused terrorist was more lenient than the federal sentencing guidelines recommended and was a setback for the government...

EMC Moves Mozy Into Enterprise Online Data Backup

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, January 23, 2008. EMC Moves Mozy Brand Into Enterprise Online Data Backup "The storage company puts MozyEnterprise under the umbrella of its software-as-a-service strategy."

Microsoft Broadens Virtualization Strategy Beyond Data Center to the Desktop

Posted on January 23, 2008
Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, January 23, 2008. Microsoft Broadens Virtualization Strategy Beyond Data Center"Microsoft wants virtualization to change the way IT works from the data center to the desktop."

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

Posted on January 23, 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...

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Back New York Trial Judge System

Posted on January 18, 2008
The following is a January 16, 2007 news alert from the New York Times: Justices Uphold New York's Trial Judge System The Supreme Court unanimously upheld New York's unique system of choosing trial judges, reversing a lower court and setting aside complaints that the system was easily controlled by party bosses...

Sentencing Appeal One Of Few Pauper Cases Taken By Supreme Court

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 18, 2008. "Keith Burgess is a one-time South Carolina drug dealer and that rarest of jailhouse lawyers: a successful one, reports McClatchy Newspapers. Burgess, a 30-year-old high school dropout who later earned his GED, persuaded the Supreme Court to hear his appeal...

Web Sites Give Advice To Domestic Violence Victims

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 18, 2008. "Hushed directions to battered women's shelters in the 1970s and 1980s have been replaced by Web sites bursting with information as the first step for domestic violence victims reaching out for help, reports Women's eNews...

Federal Prisoner Allowed to Sue Over Media Interview Ban

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 18, 2008. "A controversial policy prohibiting federal death row inmates from giving face-to-face interviews with the news media will soon have its own day in court, says the Terre Haute (Indiana) Tribune-Star...

U.S. Homeland Security To Scrap $90 Million Information Network

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 18, 2008. "The U.S. Homeland Security Department spent more than $90 million to create a network for sharing sensitive anti-terrorism information with state and local governments that it has decided to replace, reports the Washington Post...

Its Possible for Prosecution to Win "No-Body" Cases

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 18, 2008 Twelve weeks of combing woods and construction sites, diving into ponds and canals, and retracing Stacy Peterson's last contact with family and friends have shed little light on the 23-year-old Illinois mother of two's whereabouts, reports the Associated Press...

Federal Government Should Expedite Taser Safety Research, Expert Says

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 18, 2008 "Every time someone dies in police custody after being zapped with a Taser, fresh questions arise about their safety, says the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The devices, which fire stun-producing darts to subdue suspects, have been criticized by humanitarian and civil rights groups because of 290 deaths associated with them...

Crime in Seattle Hits 40 Year Low; Police, Economy Credited

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Crime and Justice News, January 18, 2008. "Everything from auto theft to homicide in Seattle dropped to 40-year lows in 2007, continuing a downward trend in the city's crime rate, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mayor Greg Nickels and Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske said Seattle's streets remain some of the nation's safest, despite a New Year that began with one woman killed, another savagely attacked, and two teenage boys fatally shot within a week of one another...

Some States Seek Change in How Lawyers Are Regulated

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: National Law Journal: Daily Headlines, January 18, 2008. FROM THE UPCOMING ISSUE �|� Some states seek change in how lawyers regulated"Several states have been considering initiatives to limit judicial powers over such things as overseeing attorney admissions and discipline and determining who should be allowed to sit for the bar exam...

Eleventh Circuit Finds No

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Lexology, January 18, 2008. Eleventh Circuit finds no reasonable expectation of privacy in personal computer connected to workplace networkSteptoe & Johnson LLP "A bungled attempt to keep files on a personal computer connected to a workplace network private cannot protect the files from government snooping...

Summary Judgment -Plus Standard Applicable to Subpoena to E-mail Service Provider Seeking Identity of Anonymous Party

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Lexology, January 18, 2008. Summary judgment-plus standard applicable to subpoena to e-mail service provider seeking identity of anonymous partyThelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner "A party seeking to obtain discovery of the identity of an anonymous speaker via a subpoena to the speaker's e-mail service provider must first demonstrate that its claim would survive a motion for summary judgment and then establish that a balancing of the parties? competing interests favors disclosure...

Federal Court Protects Blogger Under Lanham Act

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: Lexology, January 18, 2007. Federal court protects blogger under Lanham ActHolland & Knight LLP "A South Carolina federal court has held that a blogger qualifies as a journalist under the Lanham Act, and threw out the claim under the law?s exemption for 'forms of news reporting and news commentary...

ALI ABA CLE: Blogging in the Workplace

Posted on January 18, 2008
A live telephone seminar/live audio webcast, Wednesday January 30, 2008 12 noon - 2:00PM EST. Scope and Purpose "Blogging by current and former employees has dramatically increased in the past few years, and raises a host of legal issues...

ABA CLE: Blogging, Ethical Considerations for Lawyer Legal Implications for the Client

Posted on January 18, 2008
Source: ABA Publishing, January 18, 2008. Blogging: Ethical Considerations for the Lawyer Legal Implications for the Client (Online Course) "This course will help round out your understanding and approach to law blogs by examining their development, content, and marketing, including appropriate topics, ideas for posts, participation in blogging communities, and optimizing blogs for search engines...

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