The Justia Dockets & Filings website offers attorneys, journalists, litigants, and legal researchers a simple tool for discovering and tracking litigation in the various federal courts. I find the website to be absolutely indispensable for tracking who is suing and who is being sued. For example, I subscribe to the…
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We've all used work e-mail for personal stuff, haven't we? You know: connecting with college friends, organizing family reunions, and making appointments with our lawyers, right? Wait a second….what was that last thing? If you live in Northern California, take note: a state appeals court just ruled that an employee's…
On Monday, Gabriel Saldana offered some social media privacy tips for stalking victims. His advice about quitting Facebook is on the mark, and not just for people victimized by stalkers. While Facebook is a popular gateway into a virtual world of friends, status updates, and likes, it may also serve…
Last month, President Barack Obama proclaimed January 2011 as National Stalking Awareness Month to raise awareness of stalking and to offer support to stalking victims and survivors. While stalking is a crime in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, many people underestimate its effects and consequences. President Obama…
A hat-tip to Mary Minow for alerting readers via her Library Law Blog post last week that Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan introduced HR 67 on January 5, 2011 to extend the PATRIOT Act yet another year to February, 2012. Given the short amount of time available…
British authorities arrested Wiikileaks founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange on Tuesday based upon a Swedish warrant charging him with sexually assaulting two women there over the summer. Assange's arrest, along with decisions by technology companies, finance companies, and banks to distance themselves from the document-leaking web site he founded, have…
These presents aren't going to wrap themselves, folks.You're at work, but you're on Amazon and Overstock searching for deals, right? It's Cyber Monday--the online equivalent of Black Friday, where the web stores are jammed with consumers distracted at work. Amazon and Target even have special sales on this day and…
OnGuard Online, a website by the Federal Trade Commission, urges people to exercise discretion when using social networking sites. While their advice is targeted towards parents of young children, it applies equally to people of all ages. In general, the FTC cautions people to only post information to social networking…
Internet legal privacy issues are getting a lot of attention these days. One federal law, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act ('ECPA'), is facing many requests for changes, with apparent agreement on revising it.