Toronto attorney Dan Michaluk blogs: On December 2nd, the New Brunswick Court of Queen’s bench ordered a plaintiff in a disability insurance claim to obtain “a history of her computer account use” from her ISP and “request” her ISP to generate a record accounting for her FaceBook use. The case is Carter v. Connors, 2009…
Library Groups Ask Justice Department To Supervise Institutional Pricing for Google Book Database
In a letter (PDF) to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Association of Research Libraries, say “active supervision of the settlement by the court and the United States will protect the public interest far more than any…
Attorney General Zoeller takes action to preserve Hoosiers’ telephone privacy
As part of a yearlong effort to combat the growing trend of telemarketing scams affecting Hoosiers, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced yesterday that he had filed lawsuits against two California-based companies that blasted out faxes to numerous consumers in violation of Indiana’s Do Not Fax law. The suits allege ProStarr Satellite, Inc. and Association…
For my reading list…
Every so often, I try to spend a bit of time on SSRN to see what new articles are available that might be of interest. Here are seven recently posted abstracts, below. For most of them, the full-text version is also available as a free download: Finkin, Matthew W., On Restating the Common Law of…