Matthew Murphy of the Gerson Lehrman Group provides an analysis: This article looks at a recent Chinese court decision which extended the application of Article 253 of the PRC Criminal Law to common citizens in China. Until this decision was issued, come commentators had thought that Article 253 was limited to the actions of employees of…
Category: Court
Woman files lawsuit over campaign mailing
Matt Thacker reports on a case that demonstrates just how low some people will stoop in a political campaign. Emphasis in the excerpt added by me: The adult daughter of Clark County Commissioner Mike Moore has filed a lawsuit against Citizens for Decency in Government for political mailings sent out prior to the May primary…
Never Make a Promise You Can’t Keep- Especially in Your Privacy Policy
Kevin Khurana of Proskauer writes: Expect the unexpected from your Web site privacy policy. In a handful of cases, including two which were recently decided, companies have been thwarted in various, unexpected ways by the commitments made in their online privacy policies. Are your intellectual property litigators reading your privacy policy? In FenF, LLC v….
Privacy Policy Lessons from Handbook Cases
Lawrence Cunningham writes: Just as the hottest practical topic in contract law during the 1990s was whether corporate employee handbooks could be enforced as contracts, among today’s hot practical contract law topics is whether corporate policy statements, especially on the internet, can be enforced as contracts. We’re in the beginning of a struggle on that…