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Sen. Franken and the Fourth Amendment

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…

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Pretrial Detention

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…

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Antitrust Workshops

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…

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False Statements and Terrorism

Well, it looks like three people in Denver were arrested for giving false statements in what is being called a terrorism investigation. (Source.) False Statements is one of those federal…

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Google Books and Antitrust Problems

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…

Opera Mini 5 beta for BlackBerry

I saw this morning that Opera has released a new version of its mini browser. (See this Gizmodo post and this PC Magazine post (via Yahoo!).) Being fond of Opera's…

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France’s Copyright Legislation

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…

Blackberry App Test

Last night, after struggling to post something through my BlackBerry's web browser, and failing, I thought "wouldn't it be nice to have an app on this thing?" Turns out there…

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Even More on the Google Books Settlement

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…

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ICE and Sex Tourism

Not a lot of people realize it, but the United States exercises one of the most expansive concepts of extraterritorial jurisdiction in the entire world. In layman's terms, the United…