Daniel Fisher writes: Florida attorney Larry Joe Davis didn’t like his listing on Avvo.com, a website that purports to rate lawyers according to a proprietary scale. He rates 3.7 out of 10 and has a “caution” warning because he wasdisciplined by the Florida Bar in 2007 over a matter involving failure to pay child support. First Davis…
Category: Court
Phone Numbers, E-Mail Addresses, and Metaphor Wars
Julian Sanchez writes: The law normally advances by small and cautious steps—by the gradual extension of established precedents and rules to novel problems and fact patterns. Little wonder, then, that tricky questions of law often amount to conflicts between competing metaphors. Is a hard drive like a closed briefcase whose contents are all fair game for…
New Seventh Circuit Wiretap Cases
Andy Serwin of Foley & Larner discusses two Seventh Circuit decisions on wiretapping and ECPA. Both cases were previously mentioned on this site in recent weeks: U.S. v. Szymuszkiewicz and McCann v. Iroquois Memorial Hospital. The former was discussed by Orin Kerr on The Volokh Conspiracy, while the latter was reported by Courthouse News. For…
‘Cookies’ Cause Bitter Backlash
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Emily Steel: Tools that track users’ whereabouts on the Web are facing increased regulatory and public scrutiny and prompting a flurry of legal challenges. Since July, at least six suits have been filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against websites and companies that create advertising technology, accusing…