by Nick Misek | Apr 26, 2010 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that the FCC was not authorized to prohibit Comcast from interfering with P2P networking applications, erecting what appears to be a large roadblock on the FCC’s path to net neutrality. The court held that the...
by chadray | Apr 10, 2010 | Cases, Commentary |
In May 2008, Walter Swift was exonerated after serving 26 years in prison for a rape he did not commit. Mr. Swift’s case, like many where an innocent person is convicted, didn’t have just a single error. One problem was with the identification that not even the...
by benmorse | Feb 8, 2010 | Cases, Legal/Tech News, Old Blog Posts |
I posted a few weeks ago about the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily stay YouTube streaming in the Proposition 8 trial. As expected, the Supreme Court later extended its temporary stay into a permanent block of the proposed stream. The Northern District...
by benmorse | Jan 13, 2010 | Cases, Technology |
In May 2008, the California Supreme Court held that the Equal Protection Clause of the California Constitution required same-sex marriages be recognized. However, the voters passed Proposition 8 just a few months later, redefining marriage as only between a man and...
by Travis Rimando | Dec 31, 2009 | Cases |
The topic of music royalties has come up time and again in 2009, from the introduction of the Performance Rights Act, currently making its way through Congress, to various digital performance royalty rate disputes, from Internet broadcasts to satellite radio. To end...
by Grace L. Wang | Dec 31, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
The Supreme Court granted certiorari to City of Ontario v. Quon on December 14, 2009 (No. 08-1332). Quon was a SWAT member who had sent and received text messages on his work-issued pager. While the city’s written policy was that employees should have no...