Legal Research

Virtual Rights Protection
There are virtual lawyers, virtual commerce, virtual brands.  So logically someone has finally opened what purports to be the Second Life Patent and Trademark Office saying: “We allow you to register, protect, and add value to your Second Life creations to protect your intellectual property rights...

Law Librarians and Virtual Worlds
While we’ve had discussions from time to time about Second Life, but we missed telling you about a novel virtual workshop on innovative forms of library services through virtual worlds...

Qwaq: Second Life for the enterprise
The May issue of Smart Libraries had an interesting article about Qwaq Forums, a virtual space for organizations. Many companies have been exploring the use of virtual worlds like Second Life to connect with customers, and some have even used it for virtual meeting spaces...

New Take on the 'Virtual' Law Firm
Since the early days of the Internet, we've heard about law firms going virtual. Nowadays, some lawyers are taking that to the extreme, setting up practices in the virtual world of Second Life, as Stevan Lieberman did...

Congress Meets Second Life
As if it had a first life. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has a Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet. The members held a virtual hearing yesterday online in Second Life...

Second Life: More virtual world property disputes
Canadian courts see breach of contract claim for activities in Second Life I was typing in "murder" trying (so far unsuccessfully) to hunt down a lead for a Second Life incident sometime back in which executive business type avatars were "killed" by a car crashing into the board of directors meeting...

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Dumb California Laws
Stupid Laws in the Sunshine State

California Labor Laws
alleged violations of California labor laws such as overtime pay, discrimination and harassment.

Treasurer Embezzlement
Mary Lou Puccio repays Warren Cheer and Pom Program $26,000 after stealing money.

Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
has been accused of not doing enough to keep addicted gamblers who have signed up for a "self-exclusion" program out of casinos.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Biodefense Program
Texas A&M University agrees to $1 million lab safety and sanitation settlement.

Consumer Funding
BlueHippo Funding agrees to set up $5 million restitution fund after modifying its computer sales program.