Archive for January, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) – Auditors say the FBI’s stepped up effort to fight Internet child pornography has led to an evidence backlog in the bureau’s computer labs. More »

Comm Law alum Rolando Gutierrez passes this story along. More »

The Entertainment Consumers Association has this list of legislation aimed at regulating video games. More »

The First Amendment Center has a strong discussion of efforts to relax Brandenburg during a time of war. More »

I suspect this will go on to an appeal. The standard for restricting student speech on campus is whether it is “disruptive” of the learning environment. Don’t see that here. More »

Or aren’t they? More »

I’ve gotten behind with the start of school and the conversion from Blogger, so here are some interesting recent stories and opinion pieces on libel: More »

Cases like this make me wonder why some people extoll the virtues of European law. More »

SCOTUS won’t hear the a case involving the Child Online Protection Act, which was struck down by a trial court in 2007. In 2004, the court upheld an injunction that had prevented the law from going into force and indicated the law was probably unconstitutional. More »

Suing a competitor for libel probably wasn’t a great PR move for the Tulsa World. More »