Miscellaneous

EFF Position on Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
How SOPA Affects Students, Educators, and Libraries: "...Libraries represent another educational group that could face fallout from SOPA. The Library...

SOPA and other @Cyberlaw Links
The news this week has been dominated by discussions of the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, that had congressional hearings this week. I really liked the following discussions of SOPA: Why I Oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/E-PARASITES Act Eric Goldman has a great summary of the bill and its problems...

SOPA Goes To A (Carefully Managed) Hearing
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is headed to a hearing today before the full House Judiciary Committee. Well, we?ll call it a hearing because there is at least one party testifying that opposes the bill, and that is Katherine...

Alternative TO SOPA Proposed
TechDirt:  Alternative To PIPA/SOPA Proposed; Points Out That This Is An International Trade Issue: While the MPAA has been pretending that there are no alternatives beyond the insanity that is PIPA and SOPA, some in Congress have actually been hard at work on trying to think through the specific issues...

SOPA/PIPA vs a Crowdsourced Alternative, the OPEN Act
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) recently released a public draft of the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act as a bi-partisan alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the...

Journalists Hate SOPA Too
A multitude of journalists have finally come out publicly against SOPA, the bill sponsored by Lamar Smith (R-Texas) that fights so-called "rogue" websites that traffic in copyrighted software and counterfeit goods...

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Wesley A. Snyder et al.
alleging the consultants perpetrated a Ponzi scheme by encouraging borrowers to lend more than they needed.

Tensor Heat Therapy Patches
Urgent Recall

Exotic Meats USA
Announces Urgent Statewide Recall of Elk Tenderloin

Six Reported Deaths
Prompt Urgent Re-announcement of Robe Recall

Baxter Electronic Infusion Pumps
FDA Issues Urgent Class I Recall

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...