The Florida Supreme Court yesterday responded "yes" to this question certified to it from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh CIrcuit: DOES THE STATUTORY CAP ON WRONGFUL DEATH NONECONOMIC DAMAGES, FLA. STAT. § 766.118, VIOLATE THE RIGHT TO EQUAL PROTECTION UNDER ARTICLE I, SECTION 2 OF THE FLORIDA CONSTITUTION? The Florida Supreme Court […]
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After the collapse of the housing market in 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies coordinated enforcement activites to target mortgage fraud schemes. This week, DOJ’s Office of Inspector General released an “Audit Of The Department Of Justice’s Efforts To Address Mortgage Fraud.” The Washington Post summarizes the report’s conclusions as follows: “When […]
Following up on yesterday's report on Target's failure to prevent its data breach, listen to this NPR story on the same topic.
That's the topic of this Bloomberg Businessweek article. Here's an interesting excerpt: On Saturday, Nov. 30, the hackers had set their traps and had just one thing to do before starting the attack: plan the data’s escape route. As they uploaded exfiltration malware to move stolen credit card numbers—first to staging points spread around the […]
That's the theme of this interesting article by Ashlee Kieler.
The Center for Effective Government has issued Making the Grade: Access to Information Scorecard 2014. This report grades the 15 federal agencies that receive the most Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) requests on their implementation of the Act. The report finds that the Act often is not implemented as Congress intended. Read a […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday named three people to senior posts: (1) Christopher D. Carroll as the Assistant Director and Chief Economist for the Office of Research in the Bureau’s Research, Markets, and Regulations Division; (2) Daniel Dodd-Ramirez as the Assistant Director of Financial Empowerment in the Bureau’s Consumer Education and Engagement Division; and […]
by Paul Alan Levy I heard last week from another lawyer in a Doe case that I am currently litigating about an order from a Philadelphia trial judge, requiring Philly.com, the web site of Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers, to disclose the identifying information of a commenter who, according to the story, had called the head […]
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It may sound like something from House of Cards, but it appears (or it has been alleged, at the very least) that the CIA is now hacking the U.S. Senate. Here's the Post's lede describing the speech on the Senate floor today by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California: The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee […]