Technology Today
Free With Registration: Alleged Defamation on 'Gripe' Sites Challenges Businesses
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Shari Claire Lewis, a partner at Rivkin Radler, wrties that in recent years, the courts have addressed numerous cases against alleged speakers of the negative on the Internet, and there is general consensus that service providers and other intermediaries are immune from liability for such postings and any tort liability. However, she notes, despite their uphill battle, companies continue to bring actions in an effort to block negative commentary from being posted on the Web.
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Bosses Who 'Friend' Are Asking to Be Sued, Lawyers Say
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Managers sending friend requests to staff via Facebook, Twitter and other sites constitute a growing trend in the workplace. And it is one that needs to stop, employment lawyers warn, because online relations between boss and employee can trigger or exacerbate a host of legal claims, including harassment, discrimination or wrongful termination, as well as touch off cries of favoritism if the boss friends only a select few subordinates.
Free With Registration: Kansas Case Casts Doubt on Usefulness of Rule 502
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, write that a major goal of the 2006 amendments to Rules 16 and 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and new Federal Rule of Evidence 502 was to reduce the cost of electronic discovery by minimizing pre-production privilege review of electronically stored information through the endorsement of "quick peek" and "clawback" agreements in those cases were the parties jointly agreed to such procedures. However, the recent decision in Spieker v. Quest Cherokee demonstrates that not all courts will interpret these provisions in light of the stated goals of the new rules.
Free With Registration: Revised FTC Guidelines: Let the Blogger Beware
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Kelly D. Talcott, a partner at Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, discusses new FTC rules that pose a danger to advertisers that currently rely on relatively uncontrolled third parties - such as bloggers - to spread positive reports of their products or services. The guidelines require that endorsements "reflect the honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences of the endorser." Both advertisers and endorsers may be "subject to liability for false or unsubstantiated statements made through endorsements," as well as "for failing to disclose material connections between themselves and their endorsers."
Better Laws Are Needed to Prosecute Cyberbullies
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
David Frey, an assistant district attorney on Staten Island and chief of the computer and technology investigations unit, writes that when cyberbullies are underage and too immature to have thought about the results of their actions, often a detective contacting a bully's parents and school counselors solves the problem quickly without the courts becoming involved. More formal interdiction becomes necessary, however, when death threats are made, or an adult is the bully, as was the case in the death of 13-year-old Megan Meier. If Lori Drew, who will serve no jail time for her part in Megan's suicide, lived in New York, could she have been successfully prosecuted?
DOJ Probes IBM's Mainframe Market Conduct
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The U.S. Justice Department is looking into allegations that IBM has abused its dominant position in the market for mainframe computers, the data-crunching heavy lifters of the computing world that IBM introduced in the 1960s that are now used to process some of the most sensitive data in banking, government and health care. The accusations stem from claims by IBM rivals that they have been illegally frozen out of the mainframe market because of IBM's refusal to allow its mainframe operating software to run on non-IBM computers.
Past Stories
Free With Registration: Google Book Settlement Is Devoid of Demand to Protect Buyer Data
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Free: Webwatch
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Enforceable Browse-Wrap Contracts and Sufficient Notice
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Recent Decisions Stress Need To Preserve Electronic Data
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Intellectual Property
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Criminal Law
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Will 'Solicitation Plus' Lead to Personal Jurisdiction?
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Short Web Address Site Rises Again
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
'Twitterjacking' Lawsuits Face Many Obstacles
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Spoliation Leads to Severe Sanctions in Recent Cases
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Back to Basics: A Google Voice Tutorial
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Gates Considered Following Father Into Law
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Prosecuting Counterfeiters in New York State
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Free: Webwatch
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Privacy Concerns
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
State Courts and the Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Free With Registration: Cybersquatters' Latest Target: 'Dot-cm'
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Handling of ESI Moves to Forefront of International Litigation
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Free With Registration: Federal Courts Wrestle With Personal Jurisdiction Issues
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
In 'Weaver,' Court Retains Some Privacy in World Without Walls
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ninth Circuit Gives Ad Blockers Broad Shield From Suits
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Free With Registration: Growth of 'Cloud' Computing Brings New Legal Challenges
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Federal E-Discovery Issues
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Computer Crime
Tuesday, June 23, 2009


