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• Peter Watts found guilty.
  Quoted from here , referred to by Punkin 3.14159: FOUND GUILTY JUDGMENT OF CONVICTION ENTERED REFERRED TO PROBATION DEPT. BOND IS CONTINUED; HABITUAL 2ND TO BE REVIEWED W/
• Federal judge decrees that divulging your PGP passphrase violates the fifth amendment.
  I can't say that I'm wild about the circumstances behind this (in fact, it's taken two days to calm down sufficiently to write about it without ranting), but the ramificat
• National Security Letters found unconstitutional last week.
  Last calendar week something unusual happened in the US court system: The sections of the USA PATRIOT Act that made it far easier to get National Security Letters were dec
• Regarding the "Virginia Remedial Fees" bill that snuck through a few weeks ago.
  Late last month, a bill snuck through the Virginia general assembly that adds considerable fees onto even trivial traffic violation tickets. If you are convicted of a driv
• Scooter Libby found guilty of perjury.
  Yesterday afternoon I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff was found guilty of four out of five counts of perjury while testifying before a grand ju
• Bloggers and web board admins are not legally responsible for content posted by their readers or users.
  The First Circuit Court of the USA has upheld an important dictate of the Communications Decency Act , which sets a helpful precedent for bloggers and people who run web B
• The RIAA is at it again - they want you responsible for your network link, regardless of who uses it.
  Not too long ago, a woman named Debbie Foster was sued by Capitol Records (RIAA) for copyright infringement because someone was using her network access account to exchang
• The Scooter Libby trial is still going on.
  More interesting information has come to light due to the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial, going on right now in DC. It was one thing for an ambassador to find out that the
• Apple sets a major legal precedent for amateur journalism.
  A major precedent has been set in net.law following Apple losing its lawsuit against Apple Insider and O'grady's Power Page . In those lawsuits, Apple sued to uncover the
• The Scooter Libby case is disproving the maxim that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
  It's come out on the stand that Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary was the one who leaked Valerie Plame's identity to Scooter Libby . He admitted this under
• It's now 41 degrees Farenheit, and trying to rain. What gives?!
  This morning, after arriving at the Metro station closest to my office and climbing the escalator (I need exercise, what can I say?) to the platform closest the street, I
• You have to hand it to him, he's fighting tooth and claw..
  He might be the fall guy, but Scooter Libby's not going down without a fight as testimony on the stand from witnesses lays out the damage and spin control operations the W
• You said WHAT?!
  This Saturday past, the Pentagon took a major leap sideways when it had to distance itself from one of its senior officials , one Charles "Cully" Stimson. Stimson went on
• One of the more confusing bills I've read lately.
  At this time, there is a bill before Congress that will change how grassroots lobbyists are treated , namely, requiring them to register on a quarterly basis as lobbyists

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