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 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...
by liz | Dec 31, 2009 | Cases, Commentary
When AT&T sued Verizon Wireless for its “There’s A Map for That” advertising campaign, AT&T could have brought a dilution claim against Verizon’s use of the slogan, “There’s a map for that,” which is very similar to...
by Matthew Remissong | Dec 31, 2009 | Cases, Commentary, Legal/Tech News
A three judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently upheld the injunction against Microsoft that goes into effect January 11, 2010. The panel also upheld the nearly $300 million in damages from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District...
