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The NY Police Department can require officers who have been involved in a shooting to take breathalyzer tests in order to determine whether their conduct may have been affected by substances such as alcohol. After the 2006 shooting of Sean Bell in Queens, New York, the police put the mandate in...

Twitter must turn over 90 days worth of tweets of an Occupy Wall Street protestor to the Manhattan District Attorney's office according to a report provided by The Associated Press. A Manhattan Criminal Court judge ruled that a subpoena will not be sufficient to compel Twitter to turn over the...

Judge Lucy Koh ruled in US District Court last week that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone infringe upon Apple design patents and granted a preliminary injunction on the sales of the products in the United States. What is hotly debated is whether Apple's design...

Debra Lafave, a former remedial reading teacher at Greco Middle School in Temple Terrace, Florida, had sex with a 14 year old student 3 times in 4 days, once in a car being driven by the boy's 15 year old cousin. In a disturbing plea bargain agreement, Ms. Lafave pleaded guilty to two counts of...

Sometimes you have to shake your head and laugh at the fact that with likely thanks to an attorney somewhere, you have been prompted with a legal notice not to do something that could be considered "colossally stupid." This month we found three car commercials aired during football games that...

According to a federal lawsuit filed on Monday, February 25, in Federal Court in San Francisco, AOL-Time Warner has been sued for allegedly charging thousands of subscribers for merchandise that they claim not to have ordered. The subscribers claim to have merchandise appear at their door...

Several bills have been proposed in the 107th Congress that deal with the Internet and high-technology. These new, proposed, preventative measures to deal with electronic abuses take place long after the Internet boom and bust and well behind the proactive and reactive actions of the...

In a unanimous decision was issued by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the use of the term "Playmate of the Year" by Terri Welles, a former Playboy Playmate, was determined to be non-infringing of marks registered to Playboy Enterprises Inc. (PEI) with regard to the content and metatags of...

It appears that the constitutionality of New York State's law prohibiting the use of wireless phones while driving a motor vehicle has survived its first test. In the case of People v. Victoria Neville, the defendant was charged with violating New York's Vehicle and Traffic Law Section 1225-C...

In what comes down to a question of morality and not legality, there is great commotion surrounding the creation of a commercial that features the late Dr. Martin Luther King, in a scene from his "I have a dream" speech, as a corporate spokesperson. The family of Dr. King has licensed the use of...

For those of you who are unaware, a great number of your Web-based activities are tracked without your knowledge. While the use of your IP address or a 12 digit code that identifies your computer on the Internet does not identify you personally, it could potentially be traced back to you given...

At a time when the smoke has still not cleared from the rubble that once was the World Trade Center and with thousands of people donating their time and assistance to help New York City residents, AOL-Time Warner has seen fit to wallop the victims with a 12.5% hike in their Roadrunner Internet...

At a time when the smoke has still not cleared from the rubble that once was the World Trade Center and with thousands of people donating their time and assistance to help New York City residents, AOL-Time Warner has seen fit to wallop the victims with a 12.5% hike in their Roadrunner Internet...

Free Legal Assistance for 9-11-01 Victims As many of you know, the World Trade Center in New York City was attacked today by terrorists and has been destroyed. While our headquarters is located in Manhattan and not in the financial district, we too have felt the tremors that rocked the world...

The Department of Justice stated this week that it was no longer seeking to break up Microsoft into separate companies dealing with applications software and the Windows operating system. Rather, it plans to focus on more stringent and complex regulations to govern the software giant's current...