Legal commentators and others point to the extraordinary set of laws the US has enacted in the name of privacy, prohibiting the sharing of personal information about individuals. Did these laws contribute to the Virginia Tech tragedy. “OverLawyered” editor Walter Olson comments.

Ask university officials in the US why their hands are so often tied when they see a student beginning to spiral into disruptive madness and some will cite federal laws that prohibit discrimination against the mentally ill. Others will mention procedural obstacles that can make it hard to expel a youngster over anything short of […]

Legal commentators and others point to the extraordinary set of laws the US has enacted in the name of privacy, prohibiting the sharing of personal information about individuals. Did these laws contribute to the Virginia Tech tragedy. “OverLawyered” editor Walter Olson comments. Read More »

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Three Miami area women were c…

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Three Miami area women were charged today with forcing a Haitian girl into involuntary servitude for almost six (6) years, Assistant Attorney General Wan Kim of the Civil Rights Division, R. Alexander Acosta of the Southern District of Florida, Jonathan I. Solomon, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of

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LawFuel – The Law Newswire – Reports worldwide on the Virginia Tech sh…

LawFuel – The Law Newswire – Reports worldwide on the Virginia Tech shootings and now the NASA shooting concern where America goes with its gun laws. Debate is raging over gun controls after reports said that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui should not have been able to legally buy guns due to his mental health

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Merck Says Ruling Could Apply to Other Texas Cases WHITEHOUSE ST…

Merck Says Ruling Could Apply to Other Texas Cases WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.–LAWFUEL – Law Newswire – Merck & Co., Inc. said today that a Texas court overseeing the Texas litigation rejected a plaintiff’s claim that she was not properly informed of the medicine’s alleged risks because, in fact, the VIOXX label contained a U.S. Food

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LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – In March, BNA published a substantial t…

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – In March, BNA published a substantial treatise on hedge funds by Cravath partner Andrew W. Needham and associate Christian Brause as part of its Tax Management Portfolio series. With detailed descriptions of various fund prototypes, the legal and regulatory environment, alternative fund structures and common economic terms, the treatise

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LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Britney Spears’ father believes she has o…

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – Britney Spears’ father believes she has only herself to blame if she loses custody of her sons and fails to revive her career. James Spears has written an open email to her former manager Larry Rudolph, who the singer rrecently fired, apologising for her behaviour and thanking him for

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LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – ConsumerAffairs.com reports that the broa…

LAWFUEL – The Law Newswire – ConsumerAffairs.com reports that the broadening global pet food contamination scandal has spread to human food. Now it has done so and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a criminal investigation after reports that more than 100 hogs were given contaminated food and later wound up on dinner

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Claim Charges Payless with Creating False and Misleading Impression …

Claim Charges Payless with Creating False and Misleading Impression That Payless Is Selling Genuine American Eagle Outfitters Merchandise WARRENDALE, Pa.–LAWFUEL- The Class Actions Newswire – American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (NYSE:AEO) today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Payless ShoeSource, Inc. to preserve the integrity of its popular youth-oriented lifestyle AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS® brand

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LawFuel – Lead Story – Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to der…

LawFuel – Lead Story – Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google Inc.’s $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., filing a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds. Groups led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have filed the complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade

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Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google Inc.’s $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., filing a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds.

Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google Inc.’s $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., filing a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds. Groups led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center have filed the complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission arguing the merger would

Consumer privacy groups on Friday sought to derail Google Inc.’s $3.1 billion deal to buy online ad supplier DoubleClick Inc., filing a complaint with U.S. regulators to block the merger on privacy grounds. Read More »

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