Local Law Blogs

The power of P2P
CNET News.com's Marguerite Reardon defends of peer-to-peer technology: Peer-to-peer technology has gotten a bad rap for years, but a group of Internet service providers led by Verizon Communications is working to harness the technology to reduce network traffic and speed up video downloads on the Web...

Jammie Thomas Granted New Trial
In a recently issued opinion, Judge Davis has granted Jammie Thomas a new trial, overturning an earlier verdict holding her liable in the amount of $222,000 for file sharing music over a peer-to-peer network...

When It All Goes Peer Shaped
Net neutrality has slipped away even further in Canada recently, as Bell has “shaped” the bandwidth available to ISPs that rent space on the network from Bell, slowing down peer-to-peer transmissions in some cases from 5MB/sec to 60KB/sec...

Five Years, 30,000 Lawsuits, and Counting
A moment of MP3 silence, please, as we observe the fifth anniversary of the Recording Industry Association of America's massive litigation campaign against peer-to-peer sharing of copyrighted songs...

Interesting Quote from Judge Silverman of the Ninth Circuit,
rejecting a claim that a LimeWire user had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his files exposed to other users on the network because he didn't realize the peer-to-peer software...

From the Judge-said-what files..........
Only South Carolina's Judge Ralph King Anderson, when deciding the scope of the discovery of peer review material, could have written this:"The cognoscenti of health care nomology trust and rely upon Peer Review Statutes as the quiddity and hypostasis of the hospital/physician relationship...

Can a former employee use photographs of jobs completed whie working for me in marketing material for a new business?
There are several issues here

1. Sub contractor started up a compe...

I have worked for this employer for only three weeks. The employer makes up his own rules as to what he chooses to report for the purpose of property taxes. He tells me to "let them come after us". He defines Entertain
He arrogantly insists, "let them come after us." Well, if you are invo...

What role does financial means determine which parent gains custody?
was(am) a single male that gained custody of my daughter when she was three. Thi...

Can a person adopt if they are a convicted drug felon?
This is largely dependent on the specific laws in the applicable jurisdiction, a...

Will my Criminal Record prevent me from naturalizing or getting a Green Card?
A Lawful Permanent Resident can apply for United States citizenship after 5 year...

Convicted Caretakers
Senior care center agrees to $175,000 settlement in false advertising lawsuit.

City Streets and Jake Aaron Strickland
$1.2 million wrongful death settlement awarded after a husband and father was killed by a convicted drunk driver.

Internap Network Services Corp
INAP

Internap Network Services Corp
401(k) / ERISA Stock Fraud

Out Of Network Medical
allegedly overcharged for services by health insurers.

Network Solutions and ICANN
allegedly registers searched domain names to prevent others from selling and forces customers to pay expensive fees.