Law… Paying Society’s Debts 28 Sep 2009 On the way home from Fredericksburg, Texas yesterday (I was attending the Renewable Energy Roundup, which I'll discuss later), I was listening to a pregame show on the radio. The…
Law… Terrorism Charges 24 Sep 2009 As expected, according to the AP, one of the individuals arrested last week in Denver for making false statements has apparently been indicted in New York on conspiracy to use…
Law… Sen. Franken and the Fourth Amendment 24 Sep 2009 The Washington Independent is reporting that Senator Al Franken read the text of the Fourth Amendment to Assistant Attorney General (National Security Division) David Kris. Apparently, at some point of…
Law… Pretrial Detention 22 Sep 2009 I mentioned the other day that certain individuals had been arrested in Denver for allegedly making false statements to investigators. According to Agence France-Presse, two of the men have been…
Law… Antitrust Workshops 22 Sep 2009 The last time the DOJ and the FTC devised guidelines governing horizontal mergers, it was 1992. Seventeen years later, the agencies are coming back to the guidelines, hosting a series…
Law… Google Books and Antitrust Problems 19 Sep 2009 The Antitrust Division of the DOJ has weighed in on the Google Books settlement, and rejection of the settlement is urged. (See news articles on it here.) According to the…
Law… France’s Copyright Legislation 15 Sep 2009 France can be a strange country. (And in other news, cats can be aloof.) Well, perhaps it isn't so fair to single France out; all countries have their peculiarities. But…
Law… Even More on the Google Books Settlement 11 Sep 2009 Settlement agreements rarely get the amount of scrutiny as the proposed agreement in the Google Books controversy, and now the Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, has testified to Congress about…
Law… ICE and Counterfeit Goods 10 Sep 2009 When the INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) was disassembled and taken away from the DOJ, its dissolution created three new agencies, all housed under the Department of Homeland Security: USCIS…
Law… Child Pornography and Life Imprisonment 10 Sep 2009 According to a press release from the DOJ, a Philadelphia man has been sentenced to life in prison after having been convicted in May for "advertising, transporting, receiving and possessing…
