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 aownbey | Nov 29, 2009 | Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, Technology |
European Union (EU) regulators closed their investigation of Qualcomm Inc. after all of the companies accusing Qualcomm of charging excessive royalties on technology patents withdrew their complaints. In 2005, six technology companies filed complaints alleging that...
by Grace L. Wang | Nov 24, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
When teen pop star Justin Bieber’s signing became a riot of teens on Friday around 2:30pm, police were called in to control the crowd. Unable to quickly contain the situation, they asked his label’s VP, James A. Roppo, to send out a tweet to cancel the...
by Manuel Arreaza | Nov 23, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Legislation/Regulations, Technology |
“So if I know about a stock’s activity one day before it’s insider trading, but if I know about a stock’s activity one second before it’s high frequency trading?” -Samantha Bee, The Daily Show Ms. Bee doesn’t have it quite right, but mainstream comedy shows rarely...
by ghans | Nov 11, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
The New York Times reported Wednesday that a man arrested in connection with a robbery got the charges against him dropped by proving that a status updated was posted to his Facebook account at the time. Rodney Bradford, 19, hired a criminal defense attorney who...
by Daniel Warsh | Sep 11, 2009 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Law firms have empirically been a pretty conservative group, and they are not usually known for embracing technological fads very quickly, if at all. This is why it is all the more surprising that Bloomberg reported yesterday that social networking sites, including...
