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Second Circuit reverses convictions in data-theft prosecution and narrowly interprets federal criminal statutes with important intellectual property implications

  • Foley Hoag LLP
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  • USA
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  • April 21 2012

In February 2012, following oral argument, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a brief order reversing Sergey Aleynikov’s convictions for violating the National Stolen Property Act, 18 U.S.C. 2314 (“NSPA”), and the Economic Espionage Act, 18 U.S.C. 1832(b) (“EEA”), and stating a longer opinion would follow

Penalties, prison and personal visits from the regulator get ready for the tougher UK data privacy regime

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 1 2009

The time of the UK Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO") as the kindly uncle in Europe's otherwise fearsome family of data protection regulators is over

Congressionally commissioned report recommends shelving key STOCK Act provision

  • Covington & Burling LLP
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  • USA
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  • March 28 2013

With near-unanimous bipartisan majorities, Congress last year passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge ("STOCK") Act in an effort to

Director of Public Prosecutions to develop a prosecution policy for UK prosecutors in relation to offences committed by journalists under the Bribery Act and other statutes

  • McGuireWoods LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 9 2012

Today it was reported in the UK’s Daily Telegraph newspaper that the Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr Keir Starmer, is developing an interim policy for prosecutors which will give them guidance as to the factors which they should take into consideration when deciding whether or not to prosecute journalists acting in the course of their work as journalists