Updated: In a surprise ruling from the bench today, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., agreed with the American Bar Association that the Federal Trade Commission exceeded its authority by…
Updated: For a while, it appeared as if students at Brooklyn Law School who illegally downloaded copyrighted movies and TV shows could get some firsthand experience with the court system.
Contract lawyers for entertainment companies are trying to cover all the bases with contracts that assert rights to revenue streams not only on Earth, but throughout the universe.
Corrected: A Tennessee judge has ruled that a husband and wife who operate a real estate business and a halfway house for recovering drug abusers may unmask an anonymous blogger…
Two graduates of Yale Law School have settled their defamation lawsuit against several online critics who wrote nasty comments about them on the law school discussion board AutoAdmit.
A federal judge in Chicago has tossed a sheriff’s lawsuit against Craigslist that claimed ads for prostitution posted on the website created a public nuisance.
Saying that statements made on social networking sites are admissible as evidence of a defendant’s character, the Indiana Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction of a Northern Indiana man…
The detention of a Missouri high school student accused of creating a website to bully another student, is the latest in an aggressive crackdown on cyberbullying.
California signed into a law this week legislation that will make it easier for officials to protect witnesses from gangs able to access witness information on the Web.
A fugitive sought on bank fraud charges in Seattle was apparently partying and living it up in Cancun, until he made an online mistake: He friended a former Justice Department…
When Shannon Jackson was told she couldn’t contact another woman in Tennessee, she apparently may not have realized that the court order included a virtual “poke” on Facebook.
A federal magistrate judge in New York says a blogging lawyer sometimes “veered into hyperbole and gratuitous attacks on the recording industry” but he doesn’t deserve to be sanctioned for…
Although it appears that no sensitive consumer data may have been stolen, Wal-Mart was among the major companies attacked by computer hackers in 2005 and 2006.
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