Cut-and-Paste Child Porn Lands Septuagenarian in Soup
On Friday, Jay Lockett Sears, 73, of New York was arraigned on child pornography charges before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlene…
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Appeals Court Overturns Conviction of al Qaeda Videographer
On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the conviction of Yemeni prisoner Ali Hamza…
Gender Discrimination Suit Filed against WilmerHale
On Thursday, Pamela Levinson, 53, an attorney working previously at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, filed a lawsuit against…
French Court Orders Twitter to Identify Anti-Semitic Tweeters
On Thursday, a court in Paris ordered Twitter Inc to cooperate with authorities to identify people making anti-Semitic posts or…
Family of Former Football Star Junior Seau Sues NFL
On Wednesday, the family of former San Diego Chargers star, Junior Seau, who committed suicide last year, sued the National…
Kansas Moving Towards Eliminating Individual Income Tax
Kansas is rapidly and proactively altering its tax structure. Earlier this month, the largest tax cut in the history of…
California’s Proposition 8 Supporters Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Ban on Gay Marriage
In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voided Proposition 8, California’s gay marriage ban, on narrow…
Wanna Bet Who’ll Win? U.S. Government Joins Lawsuit against Sports Betting in NJ
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice filed papers in a New Jersey federal court, joining a lawsuit that seeks…
Federal Court Stops IRS from Regulating Nonprofessional Tax Preparers
On Friday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted nonprofessional tax preparers a permanent injunction stopping the…
Videogame maker Atari Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Atari SA, the videogame company has filed for bankruptcy in France on Monday. Prior to that, the U.S. operations filed…
Conspiracy Charges against 9/11 Plot Suspects to Continue
On Friday, the Pentagon appointee for the Guantanamo war crimes court refused to drop conspiracy charges against five persons accused…
HIPAA Issues New Rule for Stringent Patient Privacy
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a new rule enhancing privacy protection of the health…