MySpace Judge Agrees with Us
Remember the Lori Drew case? She’s the mom who was convicted last Thanksgiving for creating a fake MySpace persona, which she then used to harass a teenaged girl until the girl committed suicide....
View ArticleHoist on Their Own Petard — How Forensic Accountants Catch Small-Time Scammers
No law today. Let’s have a police procedural for a change. We’re in the mood for some white-collar stuff, so here goes. Forget about the Madoff case. Most financial crimes are nowhere near as...
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Gawker Gets It Wrong
As everyone reading this is probably aware, last Monday the website Gizmodo announced an exclusive look at Apple’s iPhone 4, which hasn’t been officially released yet. In their post (here), they said...
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Dude, We Warned You
The Monitor reports that a 17-year-old Texas boy is now facing child porn charges, after getting a 16-year-old friend to send him a topless photo of herself from her cell phone. Child porn is a very...
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Defending Assange
Now that Julian Assange has been arrested in the U.K., his fight for the moment is to prevent extradition to Sweden, which wants to arrest him for questioning about allegations of sexual misconduct....
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Hey, feds, get off of my cloud
Our jury’s still out, and there’s so much stuff to catch up on. There’s the 5th Circuit’s denial of Jeff Skilling’s appeal, even though the Supreme Court had struck down the “honest services fraud”...
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Hey feds, get off of my cloud (Followup)
Last month, we posted on the senate hearings on whether the feds need to get a warrant before getting emails and other stuff stored in the cloud. The Obama administration would rather let the feds...
View ArticleLet’s Make a New Law!
Any moderately well-informed person these days is aware of the shocking injustices that happen whenever criminal laws get written by people who don’t really understand what criminal law is, or how it...
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A Fundamental Disconnect
Your smartphone has a lot of private stuff on it. Passwords, photos, messages, files. You want to keep it private. So it’s a good thing that companies are building better encryption into their phones,...
View ArticleQ&A Roundup Part 3
Hey Nathan, I’m ≡≡≡≡≡≡≡≡, an AI MSc student. Your comic is great! : ) I have some questions. (1) The Good Wife, a show about lawyers, makes law knowledge seem a bit like a weapon to be used for...
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