Geesche Jacobsen reports: Newspapers, including the Herald, have been ordered to remove old articles from their websites after a court ruled they might interfere with a fair trial. The decision, one of the first of its kind, came after lawyers for three accused men argued jurors might develop prejudice by reading any of 10 selected…
Category: Court
Apple Sued For Violating iPhone, IPad Privacy
I really need a scorecard to keep all of the lawsuits straight. Wendy Davis reports: Apple was hit this week with a fourth potential class-action lawsuit for allegedly violating the privacy of iPhone and iPad users by transmitting the devices’ unique identifiers to app developers. This latest case, brought Tuesday in U.S. District Court in…
Could Your Firm’s E-Mail Policy Run Afoul of the Federal Wiretap Act?
Philip L. Gordon writes: Once seen only in the shadows of the war against organized crime, the Federal Wiretap Act should now be moving steadily and rapidly toward the top of the corporate compliance checklist. Robust civil remedies, recent court decisions and technological developments have transformed the act’s risk profile from a non-event to a…
Judge to consider Twitter information request
Dana Hedgpeth reports: A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday said she would consider an order that the social networking site Twitter must turn over three clients’ personal information as part of the government’s criminal investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Half a dozen lawyers for the three Twitter customers — including Assange — argued that…