Even aside from concerns about Facebook and privacy, the people who set up this business must truly be, well, jerks …. On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission charged the operators of the website “Jerk.com” with harvesting personal information from Facebook to create profiles labeling people a “Jerk” or “not a Jerk,” then falsely claiming that […]
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by Paul Alan Levy Following the recent decision of the Virginia Court of Appeals affirming the enforcement of a subpoena to Yelp by Hadeed Carpet Cleaning, demanding the identities of seven anonymous reviewers, and our petition to the Virginia Supreme Court seeking leave to appeal, Hadeed has been trying to organize a broader crusade against […]
As the Baltimore Sun reports, "Maryland's minimum wage will rise to $10.10 by July 2018 under a bill granted final passage by state lawmakers Monday. The measure goes to Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley for his promised signature." For a good discussion of the political debate over the effects of the minimum wage, listen to this […]
The case is Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Company, LLC v. Owens. Here is the question presented (and the defendant's argumentative intro to the question presented taken from its petition for a writ of certiorari): A defendant seeking removal of a case to federal court must file a notice of removal containing “a short and plain […]
This article by Tony Mauro discusses the reactions of campaign-reform advocates to the Supreme Court's decision last week in McCutcheon v. FEC, which struck down congressional limits on how much money an individual may donate in total to all federal candidates or political committees in a particular election cycle. See 2 U.S.C. § 441a(a)(3) (deceased Apr. […]
Go here or click on the embedded video below to watch a series of pieces by Jon Stewart on the Supreme Court's campaign-finance ruling, McCutcheon v. FEC.
by Paul Alan Levy I blogged recently about several of the issues raised by Cindy Lee Garcia's copyright claims against Google, which we addressed in an amicus brief filed well before the amicus due date, specifically to give her the chance to address those issues. I suppose that I should be flattered that Garcia mentions […]
That's the question implicit in today's NYT report on tests of child car seats run by our friends at Consumer Reports. The Times explains: A new testing procedure, said by the magazine to represent an investment of more than a half-million dollars and over two years of work, was developed to evaluate the crash protection […]
By Adina Rosenbaum, Public Citizen This morning, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Northwest v. Ginsberg, holding that the Airline Deregulation Act (ADA) preempts Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg’s claim that Northwest breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing when it terminated his frequent flyer program membership. Rabbi Ginsberg was a long-standing […]
After the Supreme Court (in)famously reversed class certification in the nationwide Dukes v. Walmart employment discrimination class action in 2011, smaller class actions have gone forward in its place in various parts of the country. The case against Walmart in Texas was dismissed by the district court based on the statute of limitations. This week, […]