Legal Notes and Practical Analysis

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...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Thursday that it would make key technology elements of some of its best-selling software products widely available to boost interoperability of its software with that of competitors and customers. To make connecting Microsoft products with third-party...

The Bankruptcy Strategist 01-09-2008 The face of bankruptcies in corporate America has changed several times since the 1978 reforms, and according to authors Louis A. Recano and Scott Y. Stuart, it’s going to change once more — probably radically — over the coming months. The...