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McKinnon loses more appeals on U.S. extradition

Gary McKinnon, the Briton who allegedly hacked into 97 NASA and Defense Department computers, has lost even more pleas to avoid extradition to the U.S., Wired reports. Despite McKinnon's arguments that he suffered from Asperger's syndrome and could be at risk for psychosis, the judge ruled there was...

Tags: U.S., U.S. Supreme Court, Britain, McKinnon, Productivity, Strategy, Security, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-31

Supreme Court rebuffs Hollywood's attempt to block remote DVR services

The consumer hasn't often won in Washington when its interests have squared off against Hollywood's, thanks in part to the industry's strong lobbying efforts. But one institution where lobbying money doesn't come into play is the Supreme Court, and Monday's session dealt an indirect blow to the entertainment industry when...

Tags: Hollywood, U.S. Supreme Court, Digital Video Recorder, DVR, Digital Video, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sean Portnoy

Blog posts 2009-06-29

Supreme Court to hear patent case with broad implications

Weather-based risk in commodities trading. Is that too abstract for a patent? Maybe not. While the question may seem arcane, it actually has big import for high-tech. The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected the patent on the so-called business method patent because it...

Tags: Patent, U.S. Supreme Court, Biotechnology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-06-01

Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case

A Virginia antispam law is now officially unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Virginia Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state law that makes illegal all high-volume anonymous email communications. I wrote about the case back in September,...

Tags: Speech, Anti-spam, First Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Cyberthreats, Online Communications, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-30

Spammer walks as court says state antispam law is unconstitutional

The Supreme Court may get to decide whether an antispam law that bans emails with false routing information violates the First Amendment (yes, I misspelled "unconstitutional" in the headline; my apologies.) The Virginia Supreme Court said the conviction of super-spammer Jeremy Jaynes is unconstitutional PDF, The Washington Post reports....

Tags: Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, E-mail, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Online Communications, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-13

NJ court: IP-related info is private

Someone broke into the website of Jersey Diesel, changed the physical address listed on the site to a nonexistent address and changed the login password. Who? Owner Tim Wilson thought he knew. Shirley Read was an employee who had just returned from disability and whom Wilson had just argued with....

Tags: Subpoena, New Jersey, Comcast Corp., IP, IP Address, U.S. Supreme Court, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Network Technology, Networking, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Supreme Court declines warrantless wiretapping case

The ACLU and other organizations attempted to sue the government for a warrantless wiretapping program called the Terrorist Surveillance Program. A U.S. District Court decided to let the suit go forward but the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals shot the case down, saying the plaintiffs had no standing unless they...

Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Vertical Industries, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-02-19

Prof: footnote in eBay Patent case COULD give Vonage a break in theirs

A footnote near the end of last week's partial remand decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, first found by University of Missouri law professor Dennis Crouch, could be interpreted as a legal recourse for giving Vonage a break in its patent disputes with...

Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, eBay Inc., Prof, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-03

AltLaw offers a legal research alternative for federal courts

AltLaw, a free legal database created by Prof. Tim Wu of Columbia Law School, has officially launched, Ars Technica reports. Ars describes the service: The database currently provides full-text search of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate opinions from the last decade or so. It also allows for...

Tags: Ars Technica, Database, Goal, U.S. Supreme Court, Service, AltLaw, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Supreme Court hears patent case

The Supreme Court granted certiorari to hear arguments in a case in which Taiwanese manufacturers - led by Quanta Computer - have accused their South Korean rival of using its patents to "shake down the entire computer industry for several billion dollars in duplicative licensing fees," the Associated Press reports....

Tags: Patent, LG Electronics Inc., U.S. Supreme Court, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-25

Spammer says state law is unconstitutional

Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C., was convicted in 2003 in the nation's first felony anti-spamming case sentenced to nine years in prison. Prosecutors said...

Tags: Computer Network, Speech, Anti-spam, Spammer, U.S. Supreme Court, Virginia, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-12

US Supreme Court (Mobile)

Get to know the US Supreme Court Justices...Town Compass presents the US Supreme Court Pocket Directory Database.The United States Supreme Court is the highest court in the US, and may exercise the power of judicial review and the power to declare federal or state laws (and actions of federal and...

Tags: Mobile, U.S. Supreme Court, US Supreme Court Pocket Directory Database, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2005-11-06

Why Blade Servers Rule in the Arizona Supreme Court

Although the Arizona Supreme Court was an early adopter of court automation tools, it found that the out-of-the-box solutions it originally deployed lacked flexibility, so it ultimately developed its own applications to support the state's trial and appellate court operations. Download this case study to learn why the court chose...

Tags: Blade Server, Hewlett-Packard Co., Blade, U.S. Supreme Court, Arizona, Utility Computing, Virtualization, Blade Servers, Servers, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Hardware, Storage

Case studies 2005-05-01

Supreme Court Landmark Decisions (Mobile)

This software product allows you to view the landmark decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. In order to view this document, you need the iSilo document reader software.

Tags: Mobile, U.S. Supreme Court, PalmaServ, Tools & Techniques, Management

Software downloads 2000-01-26

Additional Resources

Senate climate bill must lure more support to pass

Hopelessly sophomoric[i]In general, the Republican Party will oppose any major legislation on any topic because it cannot afford to give Obama?s Administration a political victory.[/i]You don't suppose that anyone might oppose Cap and Trade legislation because it will be economically devastating with little to no actual environmental benefit? (http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/wm2503.cfm)Fuller...

Tags: U.S. Senate, Cap-and-Trade

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Open source can save your life

don't mix OSS with socialized medicineOSS is for the all the people, socialized medicine is demanded only by a small minority of craizy liberals.VA health careSince 2001, the VA has had remarkable bipartisan support for just about all the funding they needed or could handle. When the gravy train...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Walter Reed, Walter Reed hospital, open source, health care

Discussion threads 2009-08-24

The First Amendment rights of anonymous defamers

Photo posted on 'Skanks of NYC' blog Yesterday I wrote that a Manhattan federal judge has ordered Google to tell supermodel Liskula Cohen the identity of the blogger behind the "Skanks of NYC" blog, which brands Cohen "a psychotic, lying, whoring, still going to clubs at her...

Tags: Defamation, First Amendment, Cahill, Courts, D.C. Case, Internet, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-20

Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional

Are there no restraints built into the constitution ...... concerning punishments fitting the crime when it comes to statutary law? Does this mean that it is perfectly legal for Congress to pass a law stating that it is e.g. okay to amputate a man's hands or even hang him, if...

Tags: Financial accounting, RIAA, activist judge, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional

Jammie Thomas-Rasset was hit with a $1.9 million verdict for filesharing 24 songs -- roughly $80,000 per song. Is that even constitutional? Thomas-Rasset's lawyers filed an appeal saying it's not. Friday, the Justice Department weighed in with an opinion that it is PDF. Under the Copyright Act's...

Tags: Damage, Thomas-Rasset, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Social networks change how we understand Sotomayor nomination

Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor are happening now, with partisan forces on both sides cheering on their relevant Senators. The debate, of course, is also happening online, The Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas reports. One Facebook group, "Sonia Sotomayor for U.S. Supreme Court Justice" now...

Tags: Facebook, Senator, Network, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-13