SOPA (Temporarily?) Washes Out Blogs

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This is a criminal defense law blog. For a criminal defense  law office. As a criminal defense lawyer, I usually write about things that are of interest to those looking for criminal defense attorneys, or for other criminal defense attorneys, or just people who are interested in criminal defense.

But what someone has — or, rather, a few very rich someones have — been trying to do is a crime.

So today, I’m writing about SOPA/PIPA. Sounds like some kind of disease, doesn’t it? Soh’-pah pih’-pah. Maybe a virus.

And it is, actually. It’s the most powerful Internet virus yet.

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The Jury & The Adversarial System

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Yesterday, a friend and I were working in my office — yes, we knew it was Sunday; no, our clocks didn’t spring all the way forward to Monday — and towards the end of our day, she told me about the importance of a new cover for the iPhone, specially-designed to direct radiation away from your brain.

This is very important, she said, because cell phone radiation is so significant that it can make popcorn pop.

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What’s Wrong With Orin Kerr’s “Technology Neutrality”?


My last post laid the foundations for a discussion of Orin Kerr’s latest law review article, “Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach” (2010) 62 Stan.L.Rev. 1005.

Today’s post will focus on Kerr’s proposed application of the Fourth to the Internet.  In particular, I write about his “technology neutral” content/non-content doctrine, explaining, among other things, why that label is a misnomer.  (Or should I say why those labels are misnomers?) [Read more...]


The More Things Change: Why the U.S. Constitution Should Not Survive the Internet


Adrianos Facchetti, a California “Internet Defamation Attorney,” writing the California Defamation Law Blog asks, among other things, if governments should regulate the Internet to control defamatory speech — however that might be accomplished.

I could only think of one response….

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