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…
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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…
We've come a long way from a parking garage in Virginia. While some of our readers may already know of MapLight.org, I wanted to make special note of this terrific site that tracks the connection between money and politics, especially in light of recent reports that corporate contributions have surged…
Comedians, satirists, and Fake Steve’s everywhere, take note: under California's new anti-Internet impersonation law, you want to make sure that you show your intent to tickle your reader's funny bones on the Web. That's because under California Penal Code Section 528.5, someone who "knowingly and without consent" uses the Internet to "credibly impersonate[] another…
Lately, I've been playing around with the Books Ngram Viewer from Google Labs. This experimental site displays how often searched phrases appear in publications scanned by the Google Books project over time. For example, open government really jumped in the 1970s. And, as you may have deduced, it correlates with…
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…
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but there's still time to get terrific gifts for lawyers and clients. Here are some of our favs: The Apple iPad — It's sleek, small, and über cool. It holds nifty free legal apps like Fastcase to find state and federal…
Last week, Tim and I had the chance to attend a panel discussion at Stanford titled, “The Open Government Initiative and the Promise of a Transparent Government.” The panel reviewed various U.S. and international initiatives designed to get citizens more engaged with their government via transparency, collaboration and participation. Of…
In light of Justia’s commitment to “free law”, we wanted to make sure to note last week’s announcement that Google, in partnership with the USPTO, now provides bulk access to current US patent applications and grants. As noted by Richard Jefferson in his “Science as Social Enterprise” blog, until recently…
It’s election day and all of us here at Justia hope you get out and vote! Given that we’ll have a new Congress at the beginning of the year, we’d like to point you to some iPhone apps you can download to keep informed on what’s going on in the…