The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights indicated their support for the Global Internet Freedom Act via this letter to Reps. Hyde and Lantos.
For more details and background about this bill, H.R. 5524, please see my previous postings here, here, and here.
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Daily Archives: November 2, 2002
Monitoring the Supreme Court
Law.com’s Supreme Court Monitor has a number of useful resources that include: links to topical news and commentary from the American Lawyer Media family of publications; cases from the 2000 term to current (fee-based for full-text access), abstracts of cases by subject (fee-based for full-text of the decisions), and cases in which cert. was granted,… Continue Reading
Child Online Protection Act Back in Court
The controversial Child Online Protection Act which specifies the “requirement to restrict access by minors to materials commercially distributed by means of the World Wide Web that are harmful to minors,” is currently under review again by U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. In May 2002, the Supreme Court remanded the case, Ashcroft v. ACLU,… Continue Reading
Microsoft Settlement Documents
Via Slashdot: Final Decree, Memorandum Opinion, Public Interest Order, Opinion on the State Settlement, and the State Settlement Order. See Microsoft’s PressPass for the company’s official response to the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C.’s decision, along with links to an extensive library of documents on the case. Continue Reading
USPTO Electronic Filings Prevail
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that they received 52% of their filings for the month of September electronically. This marks a milestone in the agency’s e-government initiative to migrate filings from paper to online format. Continue Reading
