Legal Research

Whoops.
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study. Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong. In a 2005 study it commissioned, the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that 44 percent of the industry's domestic losses came from illegal downloading of movies by college students, who often have access to high-bandwidth networks on campus...

File-sharing programs allow breaches
For the London Free Press - March 3, 2008 Read this on Canoe File-sharing programs are being installed on personal computers both in the home and at the office. A recent incident in Newfoundland involving the file-sharing program Limewire on...

Tennessee Proposes Own Crackdown on College Campus File-Sharing
New bill prohibits the "infringement of copyrighted works over the school's computer and network resources." Despite a lack of evidence that the widespread "theft" of copyrighted works is occurring on college campuses in the state of Tennessee, or the absence of any real entertainment industry interests like California, lawmakers there are considering a new bill that would force public colleges to crack down on illegal file-sharing...

Music companies to police illegal downloads
No sooner had Britain’s six biggest internet service providers (ISPs) agreed to monitor illegal file sharing than the web was abuzz with suggestions to get around the scheme.

Japanese ISPs to Ban File-Sharers from the Internet
Continues disturbing trend of ISPs agreeing to terminate the connections of customers who ignore warnings to cease illegal file-sharing activity. It's quickly and quietly becoming the year that ISPs around the world have decided to become the world's copyright cops...

Swedish Man Convicted for Illegal-File Sharing
31yo at the center of Sweden?s largest file-sharing case is given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay the equivalent of 40 days' wages, the Swedish news agency TT reported. Yesterday 31yo Swede Andreas Karlsson was convicted in that country?s biggest file-sharing case to date...

Illegal Immigrant Responsibility and Reform Act of 1996
Explanation of the controversial illegal immigration law

Comcast Agrees Tentative $16 Million Settlement in Consumer File Sharing Class Action
Comcast Agrees Tentative $16 Million Settlement in Consumer File Sharing Class Action

Furloughed Workers
File Employment Lawsuits

Forest Laboratories Potentially Illegal Marketing
Forest Laboratories Potentially Illegal Marketing

Washington Mutual Bank Collapse
May File for Bankruptcy

US Postal Service Workers
File Labor and Wages Class Action

Deja Vu
Exotic Dancers file class action claiming back wages