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…
Through the Financial Information Privacy Act (“SB1”), the California Legislature was seeking to offer the citizens of California more stringent privacy protect…
Sarl Louis Feraud International and S.A. Pierre Balmain, French corporations that design and market high-fashion clothing, sought to enforce a default judgement…
Pro se plaintiff Jeffrey Hammer brought an action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York against defendant Amazon.com (“Amazon…
Defendant LendingTree, Inc. (“LendingTree”) operates a web-based real estate referral service whereby consumers can input their location and receive information…
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a preliminary injunction to prevent Georgia election officials from enforcing a new law req…
In an unpublished opinion on personal jurisdiction, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected plaintiff Angela Tomlinson’s claim that defendant H&R Block,…
ACRA sued Lexmark alleging violations of California Business and Professions Code §17500 (unlawful to disseminate untrue or misleading statements) and §17200 (p…
The House just unanimously passed a 'Motion to Instruct' conferees to attach 4 year sunsets to sections 206, 215 and the Lone Wolf Provision of the Inte…
Mark Russinovich's blog is getting a lot of attention from Sony lately and for good reason. Russinovich, chief architect at Winternals Software LP, discove…
The New York Times reports the death of British author John Fowles. It may seem a bit macabre, but the Times' obituaries are often excellent articles in th…
Larry Lessig was interviewed in Foreign Policy about the row over control of the Internet. One exchange I thought was interesting: 'FP: Are the biggest ch…
Who remembers Morton Downey Jr.? For a time his antics seemed to be an anachronism. Now, however, his spirit seems to haunt all of us. Partisanship has come…