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E-Legal: FTC Slams Online Collectors of Kids' Personal Info
A company that operates numerous music Web sites will have to pay the largest civil penalty levied to date over violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Apparently serving public notice that it intends to vigorously enforce the privacy rules, the Federal Trade Commission has charged UMG Recordings Inc. with collecting unauthorized personal information from children and has ordered the company to pay $400,000.Mandatory Arbitration Shouldn't Be
The New Jersey State Bar Association is pushing to eliminate mandatory arbitration, calling it a poor substitute for good lawyering and a bureaucratic waste.Calif. Jury Doesn't Buy Economic Espionage Charges
A rare economic espionage case ended badly for the government Friday, as a federal jury acquitted two Silicon Valley engineers on a pair of counts and deadlocked on three others. Jurors who sided with Lan Lee and Yuefei Ge felt the government relied too heavily on evidence supplied by NetLogic Microsystems Inc., the alleged victim. To prove that information found on defendants' computers was, in fact, a trade secret, prosecutors called only witnesses from the company itself.Judgment Fund Payments in 2012 for Cabinet-Level Agencies
U.S. Cabinet-level agencies judgment fund payments are reported for 2012.Lubrizol General Counsel Joseph Bauer Gets Used to Making It Go
Joseph W. Bauer tries to steer as much work in-house as possible for Lubrizol—the leading manufacturer of chemical additives for lubricants and fuels used in automobiles, trucks and industry.View more book results for the query "*"
Massachusetts court recognizes Vermont civil unions
Civil unions for gay couples in Vermont must be treated as "the equivalent of marriage" in Massachusetts, the highest court in Massachusetts ruled Thursday.Commonwealth v. Moser, PICS Case No. 10-2420 (Pa. Super. July 8, 2010) Bowes, J. (11 pages).
The trial court denied the commonwealth's motion in limine to admit into evidence appellee's prior nolo contendere plea to indecent assault to prove absence of mistake or accident. The Superior Court affirmed.Build on Your Law School Success
Many of the skills you used to gain admission are the same ones needed to further your career after graduation, explain Angela Dalfen and Leeor Neta of Golden Gate Universty School of Law.Tentative OK given to $2M partial settlement in groundwater contamination case
A federal judge in Philadelphia has granted preliminary approval of a $2 million partial settlement by Modine Manufacturing Co. in a class action medical monitoring suit brought by residents of an Illinois town who claim that groundwater contamination has caused a cluster of brain cancer cases. The nonsettling defendants had argued that it would be unfair to grant preliminary approval of a class settlement before ruling on whether the ongoing claims satisfy the requirements for class certification.Experts predict 2009 could be a tougher year
Law firm leaders aren't likely to wax nostalgic about the good old days of 2008. Three prominent law firms decided to shut their doors, attorney layoffs became so common it was difficult to keep track of which firms distributed pink slips, and legal work ? and firm profits ? dried up significantly in the last quarter of the year. It's possible that 2008 could be the new yardstick for an annus horribilis in the legal industry, except for the disconcerting reality that no one knows how bad 2009 will be.Trending Stories
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