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BusinessWeek
November 10, 2003
Elgin & Himelstein |
The Qwest Case Starts To Boil The feds focus on whether former execs pressured suppliers to give them shares   |
PC Magazine
October 21, 2003
Sebastian Rupley |
VeriSign: Unfair Play? VeriSign, which some say has a monopoly position as caretaker of Web domains, was hit with a lawsuit in September. |
Information Today
October 20, 2003
George H. Pike |
Database Protection Legislation Introduced in Congress On Oct. 8, 2003, the ongoing debate over the need for database protection returned to the floor of Congress with the introduction of House Bill 3261, the Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act. |
Geotimes
October 2003 |
Settlement reached on coal slurry spill On Oct. 11, 2000, 250 million gallons of coal slurry poured out of an impoundment in southeast Kentucky, gushing into nearby yards, roads, creeks and rivers and destroying life in 75 miles of waterways. Nearly three years later, the State of West Virginia settled its lawsuit against the coal company responsible. |
Reason
October 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Lawsuit Pre-emption: No Big Mac attacks Shouldn't people know that if they eat too much they'll get fat? Maybe, concedes John Banzhaf, a George Washington University law professor who promotes lawsuits against fast food chains. But as Banzhaf points out, tort law is no longer based on what's reasonable. |
Reason
October 2003
Jesse Walker |
Static Controls: Copyright and Printer Cartridges The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was intended to thwart music and software piracy. But the printer manufacturer Lexmark has found a novel use for the law: They've sued to prevent a competitor from making cartridges that work in Lexmark printers. |
Reason
October 2003
Jacob Sullum |
The Chill Is On: Fighting raves, squelching speech When Sen. Joseph Biden introduced his anti-rave legislation, critics warned that it could have a chilling effect on unpopular speech, especially criticism of the war on drugs. They were proven right barely a month after President Bush signed Biden's so-called RAVE Act. |
Reason
October 2003
Kerry Howley |
Jury-Rigged: Sidestepping the Constitution The federal government has transformed grand juries into "inquisitorial bulldozers that run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens," warns a new study from the Cato Institute. |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003
Spencer E. Ante |
Was IBM Hazardous To Workers' Health? A lawsuit claims chemicals used in making chips and drives caused cancer |
Reason
October 2003
Michael McMenamin |
St. Martha Why Martha Stewart should go to heaven and the SEC should go to hell. |
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