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Legal Report: Legal Issues
12/04/2007 - In a recent hearing held before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Highways, Transit, and Pipelines, witnesses detailed the security measures taken since 9-11 and urged lawmakers to approve additional funding for new security plans.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
12/04/2007 - Johnson v. LaRabida Children's Hospital, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh District, No. 03-2339, 2004.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
12/04/2007 - Estate of Michael Harris v. Papa John's Pizza and P. J. Iowa, LC, Supreme Court of Iowa, No. 43/01-0201, 2004
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12/03/2007 - A federal appeals court has ruled that a copyright infringement case based on a document that was created in France can be heard in the United States. The fact that the work was imported into the United States and was hosted on a U.S. Web site provided sufficient grounds for jurisdiction. (Palmer v. Braun, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, No. 03-13963, 2004)
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12/03/2007 - Kerl v. Dennis Rasmussen, Inc., Supreme Court of Wisconsin, No. 02-1273, 2004
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12/03/2007 - (IBM Corporation, 314 NLRB No. 148, 2004)
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11/29/2007 - Courts rule on interviewee rights and vicarious liability. Congress moves forward on 9-11 Commission recommendations, discrimination, border protection, video voyeurism, and more.
Legal Report: Legal Issues
11/28/2007 - Rulings on data security and religious discrimination; plus legislation on fire safety, security guards, and food safety.
Intelligence: Legal Issues
11/28/2007 - A headache and potential cause of liability for high-rise buildings, BASE jumping describes a practice in which parachutists leap from high fixed objects, such as Buildings, Antennas, Spans, and Earth (or cliffs). The practice, usually illegal, is recently on the rise according to a jumper who tracks such activity.
Healthcare: Legal Issues
11/28/2007 - The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University turned to online training to get staff and students up to speed on HIPAA's Security Rule.
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11/16/2007 - A California appeals court has ruled that online auction site eBay cannot be held liable for defamatory comments that one user made against another. However, the court did note that eBay could be held liable in such a case if it knew or had reason to know that the information being disseminated on its site was defamatory. (Grace v. eBay, California Court of Appeal, No. B168765, 2004)
Legal Issues: Legal Issues
11/16/2007 - Congress passes an intelligence reform bill. Plus, courts look at cases involving premises liability, negligence, and defamation, while states pass legislation on background checks and identity theft.
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11/16/2007 - In an expansion of the state's program to require fingerprinting for government agencies, a new Arizona law (formerly H.B. 2073) requires that child protective service (CPS) workers obtain fingerprint clearance cards.
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