Al eerder vermeldden we op deze blog dat de Artikel 29 Werkgroep, het advies- en overlegorgaan van Europese privacytoezichthouders, een Opinie had gepubliceerd over behavioural targeting. (Behavioural targeting of behavioural advertising is kort gezegd het monitoren van het surfgedrag van internetg ...

Hi folks! Well, I'm not completely AWOL, just rocked off my socks with work. That's a good thing, right? But I do truly miss popping by the blog and sharing my thoughts with you. The urge to blog is strong, it is. Some quick musings tonight:I love that the Special Libraries Association has its candi ...

Jacob A. Korn, of Seattle, entered a guilty plea in Washington's largest mortgage fraud case. Korn was involved in the scheme that siphoned off millions of dollars from home loans. Joshua Adam Hicks, writing for The Bellevue Reporter, reveals that Korn did not report real-estate transactions that h ...

A federal jury has awarded Karen Bartlett $21 million for serious injuries she sustained from taking Sulindac, an anti-inflammatory medication. The defendant of this dangerous drug lawsuit is Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. Bartlett began taking the drug in January 2005 for shoulder pain. She was hospita ...

Slate.com presents a nice set of charts on the issue of growing income inequality. It seems there is a reasonable debate to be had about whether this is a good or bad thing. The political debate goes something like this. Republicans either disclaim the growing gap (e.g., the data, as seen below, exc ...

US PIRG, the federation of state public interest groups, released a report today on outbreaks and illnesses since the House's passage of HR 2749, a/k/a the Food Safety Enhancement Act, known in its current iteration before the Senate as the Food Safety Modernization Act.  The report, stamp ...

On April 29, 2010, a panel of three judges at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals gave hope to the opponents of pay-for-delay settlements, when the Court’s decision invited plaintiffs-appellants of Arkansas Carpenters Health and Welfare Fund v. Bayer AG to petition for an en banc rehearing of the ca ...

In one of the 142 posts on the LexBlog Network today, food safety advocate Bill Marler has a strong opinion on the hiring of Stewart Parnell, a peanut industry executive whose processing plants were blamed for an extensive Salmonella outbreak, as a consultant to peanut companies. Also, Jim Walk ...

Individual retirement accounts in the United States hold about $4.2 trillion... about 25 percent of all investment assets yet only a small percentage of account holders contribute new money to them, according to a new study released Tuesday by the Investment Company Institute. The study shows ju ...

Uno de los últimos reductos de las garantías de legalidad municipal radica en la incorporación al procedimiento de los informes del Secretario General cuando resulta preceptivo. La tentación para algunos Alcaldes con secretario incómodo, o para soslayar informes jurídicos sonrojantes, es sustituir t ...