Legal Research

Securing against the Inside Job
Securing Against the Inside Job: Most of the security focus baked into HIPAA relates to protecting the PHI you send, use and maintain focuses on outside threats. The Virginia prescription drug hacking case is a good recent example...

The Public Interest in Protecting Confidential Sources
David M. Abrahamowicz has published "Calculating the Public Interest in Protecting Journalists' Confidential Sources," at 108 Columbia Law Review 1949 (2008). Here is the abstract. Most federal circuits recognize a qualified journalist's privilege not to identify a confidential source...

Client Names Are Confidential
Posted by Alan Childress Ed Poll of LawBizBlog writes that client names are confidential, such that a lawyer's marketing of his or her past successes is basically different from how other occupations can tout their experiences and connections...

Protection of Trade Secrets And Confidential Information
6/4/08 Mondaq Bus. Briefing Protection of Trade Secrets And Confidential Information Mr Edward Fan Introduction With the rise of the information age and growth of the knowledge economy, managing and protecting information, as well as enforcing against its misuse, have become increasingly critical to business enterprises...

Corporate Privelege: 'One Way Street' Rulings, Legal Advice
Source: National Law Journal: NLJ.com Daily Headlines, February 22, 2008. COLUMN:CORPORATE PRIVILEGE  |  'One-Way Street' Rulings"Although the attorney-client privilege generally is viewed as protecting confidential communications relating to legal advice running in both directions?from client to attorney and from attorney to client?not every court reads the law that way...

Home Office loses confidential data on all UK prisoners
Home Office loses confidential data on all UK prisonersThe Home Office has lost confidential information on every prisoner in the country and more than 40,000 serious criminals sparking yet another Government data crisis...

Daimler Chrysler et al.
alleged negligence pertaining to lost confidential client data which exposed customers to identity theft

T-mobile data plans, T-mobile, t-mobile phones
T-Mobile Faces Class Action over Limited Unlimited Data Plans

Wrong Medication
Walgreens agrees to confidential settlement after woman suffers miscarriage.

Tomato Salmonella
Sheetz Convenience Stores agrees to confidential out-of-court settlement with food poisoning victim.

Serial Killer
Hospitals agree to confidential wrongful death settlement for employing former registered nurse Charles Cullen.

AT&T Faces Class Action over Excessive Data Usage Charges
AT&T Faces Class Action over Excessive Data Usage Charges