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…
23 state legislatures in the U.S. are currently considering proposals to ban outsourcing, according to the National Foundation for American Policy. There are a…
From Fred Kaplan in Slate: Clarke has argued that the Clinton administration thwarted al-Qaida's plot to set off bombs at Los Angeles airport on the eve of…
I begin with a mundane entry... A NYT story today about a mini-van, that gently raises issues of gay marriage. The banality of the story is its most interesti…
April 9, 2004: Quoted in St Petersberg Times on whether the Sun City Chamber of Commerce can sue because someone registered the .com iteration and redirected it…
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Why are people so upset about Google's plan to offer free e-mail with the catch that computers monitor your e-mail and target your ads? As long as it is t…
On March 15, 2004, Judge Richard Owen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York reinstated a preliminary injunction against software manu…
Plaintiffs, consisting of performers and business owners who use public domain works in their professions, filed an amended complaint in April 2004 seeking decl…
In November 2001, a New Hampshire police department obtained a warrant to search the defendant Syphers’s apartment while investigating allegations that he had s…
So the issue of privacy of email in Google's Gmail has been a highly discussed topic as of late. Though I'm not yet a user of that service, I'm curi…
So the issue of privacy of email in Google's Gmail has been a highly discussed topic as of late. Though I'm not yet a user of that service, I'm curi…
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