Blog 313-E

http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/976039.html Speaking of Bankruptcy, also see the following:www.lakelaw.com/foxvideo.php Lastly, see The WSJ Article “Power to Modify Mortgages Sits Well With Judges” HERE

Twitter cofounder Biz Stone announced this morning that the micro-blogging service would integrate Google’s Friend Connect service. That means means Twitter account holders can use their login ID on any other site also integrated with Google Friend Connect. Full Text HERE

The Legal Intelligencer 12-11-2008 A pair of cases now before the 3rd Circuit present strikingly similar facts — students disciplined for creating fake MySpace.com pages that ridiculed their principals — but very different outcomes. One lower court ruled that a student was properly suspended for...

As the stingy kid in the park would say: “If I give you a piece of candy, then I have to give EVERYONE ELSE in the park a piece of candy, and then I will have no candy.” After seeing Wall Street get bailed out,...

Yahoo’s ad alliance with Google seems like a great deal to Messrs. Brin, Page, and Yang. Now they just have to win over the Justice Department. Google and Yahoo had hoped to have it all up and running by now. As you may recall, the...

The National Law Journal 10-01-2008 Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and the National Federation of the Blind have negotiated a deal with Apple to make its online services iTunes and iTunes U fully accessible to the blind. Apple has reportedly agreed to make iTunes U,...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Public Citizen and more than a dozen law professors have filed an amicus brief to dismiss the federal government’s criminal case against a Missouri woman who used a false identity on a MySpace page to...

New York Law Journal 04-08-2008 Although the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was enacted almost 25 years ago, some of its provisions still remain open to varying interpretation. Consequently, a fair amount of litigation has resulted and courts continue to decide how the statute applies...

The Associated Press 02-25-2008 Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo and its board of directors, saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a takeover by Microsoft. The lawsuit was recently filed in Delaware Chancery Court by lawyers representing Detroit’s police...