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Wiretaps Up Slightly in 2006

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Federal Judiciary News Release: “A total of 1,839 orders were issued by federal and state courts in 2006 authorizing or approving the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications, also known as wiretaps. This is a 4 percent increase over the 1,773 orders issued in 2005, according to The 2006 Wiretap Report. The complete report… Continue Reading

Federal Register Notice Issued on Authorized Generic Drug Study

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FTC press release: “The Commission has approved publication of a Federal Register Notice regarding the agency’s planned study of authorized generic pharmaceuticals, which was first announced last year. As detailed in the Notice…the Commission proposes to undertake a study to examine both the likely short-term competitive effects of authorized generic drug entry and, to the… Continue Reading

Google and Four US States Improve Public Access to Government Websites

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Google press release: “Google Inc. today announced partnerships with the states of Arizona, California, Utah and Virginia to make it easier to search for hard-to-find public information on state government websites. These partnerships developed as both Google and officials with the four state governments recognized that the public is increasingly turning to search engines like… Continue Reading

"America's Birth Certificate" Transferred to the Library of Congress

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America’s Birth Certificate” — to the Library of Congress Library of Congress: “Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 world map grew out of an ambitious project in St. Dié, near Strasbourg, France, during the first decade of the sixteenth century, to document and update new geographic knowledge derived from the discoveries of the late fifteenth and the first… Continue Reading