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E-filing: moving states into the twenty-first century

  • Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC
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  • USA
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  • April 26 2013

In May 2012, the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts announced that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had begun to accept

Wifi moocher not protected by fourth amendment

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 1 2012

A federal district court has ruled, in U.S. v. Stanley, that a police officer did not violate the Fourth Amendment when he used software to trace the wireless signal emitted from an Internet user’s computer to obtain his location

How can a knowledge management counsel help achieve excellence as well as efficiency?

  • Ogletree Deakins
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 22 2012

Our firm certainly has amassed a lot of knowledge, having grown to over 650 attorneys focusing in just one specialty of law (labor and employment law

Divided Sixth Circuit okays cell phone GPS search

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • USA
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  • September 13 2012

Whether the government may freely track individuals using GPS devices, unconstrained by Fourth Amendment search rules, is among the current privacy issues where there seems to be a lack of consensus among federal judges

Warrantless tracking of cell GPS upheld

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 17 2012

No warrant was required to track a drug dealer's GPS locations from cell phones since the defendant “did not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the data emanating from his cell phone that showed its location.”

Sixth Circuit finds no reasonable expectation of privacy in data emanating from cell phone

  • Squire Sanders
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  • USA
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  • August 16 2012

In an interesting criminal case, United States v. Skinner (09-6497), the Sixth Circuit rejected a Fourth Amendment challenge by a convicted drug runner based on the government’s tracking of location data from his cell phone

Cybersecurity for lawyers and law firms

  • Duane Morris LLP
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  • European Union, USA
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  • July 5 2012

TechLaw10, a 10-minute audio podcast update, is part of Duane Morris' continuing series of podcasts on technology law issues from the firm's Information Technologies and Telecom practice group

DOJ arrests former BP engineer on charges of deleting text messages in violation of multiple legal hold instructions

  • Baker & Hostetler LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 24 2012

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of a former BP engineer, Kurt Mix, on “charges of intentionally destroying evidence requested by federal criminal authorities investigating the April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon disaster.”

Tension between Wisconsin constitution and statute support qualified immunity finding

  • Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 16 2012

Jesus Gonzalez, a Wisconsin gun rights activist, openly carried a handgun into retail stores near Milwaukee on two occasions in 2008 and 2009

U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rule that GPS installation and tracking of a vehicle constitutes a search, but the justices disagree on rationale - are lines being drawn on privacy rights and new technology?

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
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  • January 23 2012

In a narrowly-drawn majority opinion, the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Antoine Jones that the Government’s attachment of a GPS-tracking device to a vehicle, and the subsequent monitoring of the movements of that vehicle on public streets, constitutes a search