Dec 4, 2012

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A Bet At the Low End: Online Legal Ventures Multiply, and Sue
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The action is in no-frills legal services, as online ventures jockey for customers who want to draft wills and set up companies without paying hefty attorney fees, as WSJ reported Monday. One sign of the boom: last month online document company ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Kate Middleton pregnant: Law on line to the throne to be backdated
Daily Mail
If Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's first child is a girl she will become Queen, after the government vowed to back date laws which allowed sons to leapfrog older sisters to accede to the throne. David Cameron agreed a deal with other Commonwealth ...
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Daily Mail
Tennessee Supreme Court Launches Online Videos For The Public And Lawyers
The Chattanoogan
The Commission also is developing free online videos for the public on the law and how to navigate the court system. These videos will be available in the near future. The Tennessee Supreme Court announced its Access to Justice campaign in December ...
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Google Prods Users to Fight Copyright Law
Spiegel Online
Recently in the US and on a European Union level, a number of bills have failed due to resistance from online campaigns. With its current campaign, Google is seeking to use this to its own benefit -- and is openly playing on politicians' widespread ...
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Spiegel Online
Judge temporarily blocks California from enforcing gay 'conversion' therapy law
LubbockOnline.com
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors, but he limited the scope of his order to ...
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A bad new law targets NC students
News & Observer
But the language in this law is so vague, and its punishments so severe, that it not only attacks students' basic constitutional right to free speech but also could lead to a student being arrested simply for posting comments online that a school ...
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AGA pleads case for US online poker
GamingTodaySlotsToday
The new campaign is urging the U.S. Congress to act now to pass legislation to establish federal guidelines for regulating and licensing legal online poker. Without such legislation, said the AGA, the U.S. is poised to see widespread legislation of all ...
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Another law enforcement group co-opted in extortion scheme
CSO
December 04, 2012 — CSO — A cybercrime group has raised the scare tactics used in an increasingly sophisticated Trojan-ransomware combo to frighten victims into paying a bogus fine to unlock their computers. The latest iteration of Citadel malware ...
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New Online Course Negotiation Mastery for the Legal Pro
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
In anticipation of the soon to be launched online course for young attorneys, creator of Negotiation Mastery for the Legal Pro Douglas Noll is offering pre-launch discounts for early sign ups. Doug Nolll has been recognized as one of the Best Lawyers ...
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American Arbitration Association Launches Online ADR Tool, ClauseBuilder
The National Law Journal
The American Arbitration Association (AAA) is set to launch ClauseBuilder Tuesday, a new online tool that will facilitate the creation of arbitration and mediation agreements. It is the first such tool to be offered by an alternative dispute resolution ...
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The National Law Journal
Online gadget buyers in UAE are protected: Dh5,000 fine for firms 'cheating'
Emirates 24/7
As many customers continue to struggle to get their money back, authorities in the UAE step out to inform that the law does protect every consumer, whether online or otherwise. "If a company is found selling a defective commodity, it can be fined Dh5 ...
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Online Sales Tax Measure May Come to Vote in 2012
Tax Law Home (blog)
On Friday, Richard J. Durbin, a Senate Democrat from Illinois, introduced the Marketplace Fairness Act that is targeted squarely at collecting sales tax from customers of online retailers. The Senate bill may be added to the National Defense ...
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Texan in mental ward still wants to practice law
LubbockOnline.com
This photo provided by Williamson County Sheriff's Office via Statesman.com shows Carolyn Barnes. Barnes, a Texas attorney who is a patient at a psychiatric hospital and was found incompetent to stand trial in an assault case is still trying to ...
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beware online staff hunting
Herald Sun
The growing recruitment practice - where a potential employer will Google or seek out candidates on sites such as Facebook - can open a legal minefield. Nicholas Linke, a partner with law firm Fisher Jeffries, said businesses needed to be careful if ...
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AGA Urges Congress to Pass Online Poker Bill
Pokerfuse
... they opposed the legislation, viewing it "as an unnecessary preemption of state authority." Critics also have said that the proposed law offers an unfair advantage to Nevada, which would be charged with overseeing the regulatory aspect of online ...
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Pokerfuse
How the law caught up with the internet
Index On Censorship
Tools for government control Nevertheless, despite the assertion that technology has outpaced the ability of the law to regulate it, as a result of technological, economic and political changes, online speech on today's internet is no longer beyond ...
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Index On Censorship
CA to app devs: get privacy policies or risk $2500-per-download fines
Ars Technica
On October 30, California Attorney General Kamala Harris started notifying dozens of mobile-app developers that they weren't in compliance with a state law that requires all "commercial online services" that gather personal information to have a ...
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Ars Technica
Shining a Light on Human Rights and Justice Projects
Huffington Post (blog)
Two years ago, I launched The Human Rights & International Criminal Law Online Forum. The Forum is a partnership between the the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Sanela Diana Jenkins Human Rights Project ...
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Communications link with area law enforcement on agenda
Bowling Green Daily News
The Bowling Green Board of Commissioners will consider measures that would make some law enforcement agencies within Warren County more interconnected at the board's regular meeting on Tuesday. Agreements to allow both Warren County and the Western ...
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Civil litigation: A better way to improve cybersecurity?
CSO
Paul Rosenzweig, former assistant secretary for policy at DHS and founder of Red Branch Law & Consulting, said the recent settlement in Patco Construction v. People's United Bank shows how civil litigation can force banks to improve their online ...
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A Special Deal Just For You: The Value of Big Data Continues to Elude ...
Citizen Media Law Project (blog)
The New York Times reported last August that a supermarket is using customers' data collected through its loyalty card program to customize coupons offered online to various customers, and is considering using the data to offer different prices for the ...
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Time to extend privacy protections to email
TheNewsTribune.com
When you hear the word "mail," do you think of what you read online or of what the U.S. Postal Service delivers? If you're like most Americans, you're more likely to communicate via email than to sit down and write ... The law governing such messages ...
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Healthcare law remains unpopular, unsustainable
Herald and News
Democrats — or rather, the lonely two-fifths of Americans who support the president's beleaguered health-care law — believed an Obama win would secure its future. Both sides were ... An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety ...
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North Carolina First State to Outlaw Student Cyber Attacks on Teachers
AllGov
Students in North Carolina who ridicule or "torment" teachers online could now spend two months in jail, under a new law that's the first of its kind in the United States. The 2012 School Violence Prevention Act, which took effect December 1, makes it ...
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Lawmakers' bills target perceived federal overreach in Texas
LubbockOnline.com
Critics say those portions of the law make it possible for a person suspected of terrorist activity to be imprisoned without trial for an indefinite period of time. Larson's bill calls for misdemeanor charges for federal and state officials who attempt ...
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Tazing end struggle in Stafford
St. John News Online
Tazing end struggle in Stafford; A call to Stafford law enforcement Sunday afternoon, resulted in the caller being tazed and two individuals taken into custody. Email; Share; Print. By Terry ... Connect with SJ News Online - St. John, KS. Facebook ...
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Tighten laws to protect innocent
The Star Online
When the news of the reversal of the conviction by the higher court was reported on-line, the readers were generally shocked, highly critical and dismayed by the legal system that allowed such obvious crimes to go unpunished. Hundreds of opinions were ...
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Holder and EU commissioner to help lead global alliance against online child ...
Washington Post
Last year, a U.S.-led law enforcement operation charged 72 defendants in the U.S. and targeted more than 500 people for investigation overseas in the largest U.S. prosecution of an international criminal network organized to sexually exploit children.
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Back-tax payout pending from online travel company lawsuit
Rome News Tribune
There are thousands of hotels and addresses, so we have to create our own summary," said Andy Davis of the Rome law firm Brinson, Askew, Berry, Richardson, Siegler and Davis. Rome, Cartersville and Hart County filed the suit in 2005, contending ...
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Law enforcement tracking device helps save lives
YourGV.com
Wandering is the most life-threatening behavior associated with Alzheimer's disease, and 92 percent of respondents in an online survey said their child with autism was at risk of wandering as well, according to the New Hope Autism Center website.
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Egyptian journalists protest draft constitution
Ahram Online
Ahram Online declares its full support for the strike action undertaken on Tuesday by a large number of major Egyptian newspapers and TV stations in defence of freedom of the press, freedom of expression, civil liberties and the rule of law. In view of ...
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Ahram Online
Support building for online sales tax
KARE
By law, Minnesotans purchasing more than $770 worth of merchandise online in a calendar year are supposed to fill out forms and submit sales taxes to the state. Fewer than 800 people did so in 2010, according to the Department of Revenue. And as for ...
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Health Plans Welcome Some HHS Health Law Regs, Gear Up For Changes
Kaiser Health News
That's when the law goes into full effect and virtually all Americans will be required to have health insurance. Those not covered through their jobs will be able to buy policies online, through so-called exchanges that will be run by the states or the ...
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Two years in: Health reform complex, uncertain
DL-Online
The law was signed two years ago, but most who would be affected waited to see what the courts and voters decided before digging too deeply into it. Those issues have been resolved and, with a deadline looming in 10 months, the scramble is on to ...
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Durbin Looks to Include Online Sales Tax Provision in Defense Bill
EcommerceBytes
A top Senate Democrat is seeking to include a provision authorizing states to require online retailers to collect sales taxes in the Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2013 that the upper chamber is considering this week. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the ...
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EcommerceBytes
Leveson Inquiry Takes Stone Age View of Online Media
PBS MediaShift
Leveson insisted it was not statutory regulation, merely law to ensure everyone signed up to the new body and that its powers would be recognized. Victims of phone hacking and press intrusion who gave evidence, such as actor Hugh Grant, have insisted ...
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Ireland, abortion and legal clarity
Oxford Student
There have been outflows of sympathy, frustration, disbelief and anger in both Ireland and India. People have been protesting outside Parliament, in the newspapers, on radio and online against the failure of seven successive governments to legislate ...
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Federal "protection" of American poker players turning into confiscation
Point of Law
The DOJ shut down the American operations of three major online poker sites: PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Ultimate Bet. Though the ... Point of Law editors reserve the right to edit, delete, move, or mark as spam any and all comments. They also ...
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UK moves to tighten online gambling rules
Financial Times
It led to the exodus of most of the big-name operators such as Ladbrokes and William Hill to places with low-tax regimes, giving the UK very little influence over online gambling. Mr Robertson said the law would be amended to regulate onling gambling ...
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Europe takes on tech giants and their tax havens
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
In Britain on Monday, a lawmaker pushing to tighten laws said the multinationals' ability to escape corporate taxes "is outrageous and an insult to British businesses and individuals who pay their fair share." According to ... By setting up overseas ...
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Hey, Let's Oppose Freedom in China
National Review Online
Hornat's thesis is especially appalling given that he uses the word "democracy" not just to denote the existence of elections but as an abbreviation for political liberalization — i.e., guarantees of natural and political rights and the rule of law ...
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What You Don't Know About Sweepstakes and Contests May Hurt You
Terra.com
Be mindful of laws governing online communications. Contests that are conducted online are subject to additional laws. Likewise, information gathered during the promotion such as e-mail addresses, regardless of whether the promotion was online or in ...
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Push for Federal Online Sales Tax Law in 2012 | TaxRates.com
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Will Congress pass an online sales tax law in the current lame duck session? It's possible, due to a push by Illinois Senator Richard J. Durbin (D) to.
TaxRates.com
Judge temporarily blocks Calif. gay therapy law - Herald Online
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked California from enforcing a first-of-its-kind law that bars licensed psychotherapists from working to change the sexual orientations of gay minors, but he limited the scope of his order to just the ...
Rock Hill Herald Online -- National

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Widener Law Students Place Highly in Nationwide Online
Three Widener Law students on the Transactional Law Competition Team recently placed highly in a nationwide online competition hosted by LawMeets.
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