I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
The Stanford Technology Law Review’s symposium is scheduled for February 27th, 2009. According to its website, the symposium will “showcase vibrant legal schola…
Herbert in the NYT this morning: "In a conversation with a small group of columnists aboard Air Force One on Friday, the president discussed the fight over…
Last week, FOX News icon Bill O’Reilly made a series of insulting and demeaning remarks on-air about highly-esteemed female journalist, Helen Thomas. In today’…
Specialist Brandon Neely: "I have seen and done many horrible things, either at Guantánamo or in Iraq, and I know what it is like to try and move on with y…
Outside of a J.R.R. Tolkien novel, power does not reside in any one person, object, or place. But it does cluster. An enormous percentage of those “in power,”…
Author: Stuart Loh Universal Music Group (“UMG”) sued Veoh Networks, Inc. (“Veoh”), an Internet-based service that allows users to share videos online, for c…
Author: Ranjini Acharya John Alexis Mardas, a former associate of the Beatles, has won the right to bring defamation proceedings against the New York Times an…
Author: Allison Pedrazzi Helfrich In January 2008, Jan Kruska filed defamation, cyberstalking, and other claims against Perverted Justice Foundation, Inc. (an…
Author: Morgan Galland In E.S.S. Entertainment 2000, Inc. v. Rock Star Videos, Inc., the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the m…
Author: Jenny Kim The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed Bennett v. Hosting.com for improper venue last November. The plain…
Author: Alex Harris The Fourth Circuit upheld the conviction of a man who downloaded, among other content, graphic illustrations of fictional minors engaged i…
Thomas Frank in the WSJ: "The current recession, brought on at least in part by Wall Street's bonus lust, has claimed countless innocent victims. But i…