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Social media and jury duty

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 18 2013

For those of us who have ever served on a jury we know that our job is try to decide who is right and wrong, and assess damages or jail terms, but

EEOC files two cases on its criminal background guidelines

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2013

The EEOC has been searching for a test case on the use of criminal background checks, and they found not just one, but two. On Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Second Life avatars class action settles

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 14 2013

A federal judge certified a class at least 57,000 Second Life property owners who lost their virtual property, which led to a settlement of 43

Privacy in the cloud?

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2013

It is very old news that governments have access to cloud data on the Internet, but recent headlines about Prism make it seem that people are

New captive insurance law in Texas

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2013

On June 4, 2013, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a law making Texas the latest state to allow the formation of captive insurers, or "captives." The

Facebook friend not a reason for judicial bias

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 4 2013

When the Judge got a Facebook message from a friend the Judge did not read the message and posted a copy in the Court files and told authorities to

Anonymity key to $6B money laundering scheme

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 31 2013

Headlines about the $6 Billion money laundering did not make clear that the salient fact that "the coin of its realm was anonymity, and it became a

Using amateur athlete's avatar in video game could violate right of publicity, Third Circuit rules

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 24 2013

Electronic Arts, Inc., makes video games, including the NCAA Football series. EA put an avatar of Ryan Hart, an ex-quarterback at Rutgers, in the

Astroturfing in the EU by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo?

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • European Union
  • -
  • May 22 2013

Accusations are flying in the EU about astroturfing by members of the European Privacy Association (EPA) in spite of the EU requirement that

Mexico’s large-scale financial reform: greater availability of credit, lower costs and certainty of legal remedies

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • Mexico
  • -
  • May 22 2013

Within the framework of an agreement reached by Mexico's three main political parties to promote structural reforms known as "Pacto por Mexico" (Pact