So far, 2013 has been anticlimactic for litigators waiting for an authoritative appellate decision addressing the rules of social media discovery. Although state and federal trial courts have established some basic parameters regarding the accessibility of private social content in litigation, there remains a conspicuous lack of appellate court guidance on [...]
Continue Reading →The Washington Post reported late last week that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently changed its consumer guidance on cell phone purchases to no longer suggest that consumers concerned about cancer buy cellphones with lower radiation emissions. The change was revealed on a consumer factsheet entitled, “SAR For Cell [...]
Continue Reading →Wesley Snipes really doesn’t want to go to jail. Snipes, who was convicted of tax evasion in 2008, filed a motion for a new trial yesterday in federal court in Florida. As TMZ and others have reported, the motion is based in part on emails received by Snipes from members of [...]
Continue Reading →U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects Jersey Shore star Snooki’s application to trademark her nickname.
Screen Actors Guild reaches tentative settlement of the class action lawsuit accusing it of withholding millions of dollars of overseas distribution revenues from members.
Allbritton Communications seeks to throw [...]
Continue Reading →Neuroimaging technology gives researchers the ability to see structures and functions of the human brain. As the technology advances, it is beginning to change the way the legal field understands the brain and its impact on legal concepts of capacity, sanity, guilt, and innocence. However, the sophisticated technology poses risks that juries will misunderstand the [...]
Continue Reading →Keep your eyes peeled for this one in 2009: a California teenager is trying to get out of a speeding ticket by convincing a court to admit data from his GPS unit. Shaun Malone was pulled over on July 4, 2007, [...]
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