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Zip codes are not personal identification information says Court of Appeal

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 29 2008

On December 19, 2008, the Fourth Appellate District of the California Court of Appeal in Party City v. Superior Court (Palmer) No. D053530 held in a published decision that zip codes are not "personal identification information" under the Song-Beverly Act

FCRA completely preempts California's CCRAA

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 6 2009

Question: Does the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act preempt all actions filed under California's Consumer Credit Reporting Agency Act?

Court upholds government search of employee's workplace computer and rejects privacy claim

  • Fenwick & West LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 7 2007

After rehearing U.S. v. Ziegler, a case involving an employer giving police access to an employee's workplace computer containing evidence of child pornography, (originaly reported here), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals once again held that an employee had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his workplace computer

Ohio Supreme Court orders public board to pay for recovery of its own unlawfully deleted e-mails

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 19 2009

The E-Discovery issues in this case arose from a dispute over the decision of the Seneca County Board of Commissioners (the “Board”) to demolish the County courthouse

New Jersey federal court rules that allegation of "time-bomb" in software is sufficient to survive motion to dismiss Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claim

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 15 2009

The federal district court in New Jersey has declined to dismiss a claim under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”), 18 U.S.C. 1030, concluding that plaintiff’s allegation that defendant’s software product contained a “time-bomb” causing it to stop working after a period of time sufficiently alleged the statute’s required element of intent to cause harm

New considerations for your email policy and its enforcement: NLRB’s decision in Guard Publishing

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 25 2008

On December 16, 2007, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued its much-anticipated decision in Guard Publishing Co., 351 N.L.R.B. No. 70 (2007

Storing and screening employee emails abroad

  • Squire Sanders
  • -
  • Germany, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • February 25 2008

This Update sets forth new considerations for email policies in the United States due to the NLRB’s recent ruling in Guard Publishing

Electronic information systems: the evolution of records retention policies

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2007

Intel's document retention policy demonstrates a shift in records retention and litigation

The legend of the golden master lives on Supreme Court limits the reach of 271 (f)

  • McDermott Will & Emery
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 30 2007

Continuing a string of reversals of Federal Circuit decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court once again reversed the Federal Circuit in holding that under 35 U.S.C. 271 (f) software per se does not qualify as a “component” and that software copies created outside the United States from a master disk exported from the United States are “supplied” from the United States

Supreme Court reverses Federal Circuit in Microsoft Corp. v. AT&T Corp

  • Venable LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 29 2007

On April 30, 2007, the Supreme Court declared Microsoft victorious in a case that AT&T brought, in which AT&T alleged that Microsoft was liable for infringement of its patents by overseas sales of the Windows operating system