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The Legal Intelligencer

Capitol Report

Following is a listing of executive, legislative and judiciary activity for the week of June 27. Members of the General Assembly were likely to return to session after the July 4 holiday, but no certain date was set.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

FTC Issues Privacy Tool, Guidance for Health-Related Mobile Apps

In her Internet Issues/Social Media column, Shari Claire Lewis writes: The FTC's well-organized Web-based tool and new guidance for mobile health app developers should serve as a reminder to them of the importance the agency places on protecting consumers' privacy. If regulators are interested in privacy, then developers should be interested in privacy.
18 minute read

National Law Journal

INADMISSIBLE: On Net Neutrality, Scalia was prescient

Eleven years ago this month, a dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the Federal Communications Commission should regulate cable broadband providers as telecommunications services, not information services. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed. The late justice's vindication arrived June 14 in a major net neutrality ruling.
3 minute read

Daily Business Review

Rules for Debt Collection Calls Under Review by FCC

The combination of proposed rules from the Federal Communications Commission and a U.S. Supreme Court decision would limit the reach of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, writes attorney Jeffrey A. Backman.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

Illegal Telemarketing Cases Produce Interesting Decisions

In their Privacy Matters column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown analyze enforcement mechanisms that have been deployed to combat illegal telemarketing and how some have fared.
21 minute read

New York Law Journal

Sprint Solutions, Inc. v. iCell Guru, Inc.

Sprint Entitled to Judgment on Confusion Aspect of its Trademark Infringement Claim
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Court Creates False Choice Between Technology and Privacy Rights

OPINION: Fourth Circuit's reliance on "third-party doctrine" sets dangerous precedent.
5 minute read

The Recorder

North County Communications Corporation of Arizona v. Qwest Corporation

4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Primer on Federal and Pa. Electronic Surveillance Law

Recently, news broke that not one but two former high-ranking Pennsylvania state officials—former Treasurer Rob McCord and John Estey, the one-time top aide to Gov. Ed Rendell—secretly recorded conversations, potentially thousands of them, with political and business leaders at the behest of federal law enforcement. These revelations bring focus on the regulations concerning electronic surveillance and wiretapping: Under what circumstances do they permit the interception of seemingly private conversations? Can law enforcement officers or cooperators record seemingly private conversations without permission? How about private citizens? And do persons who learn their communications have been intercepted without their permission have any recourse? What follows is a primer on this complex and highly technical area of the law.
13 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Nortel Distribution Appeal Gets Third Circuit Jump-Start

A Delaware federal judge has certified an appeal of a bankruptcy court's unusual method for distributing $7.3 billion raised in Nortel Network's protracted bankruptcy proceeding, saying a review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit would materially advance a case that has already dragged on for seven years.
19 minute read

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