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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] Wednesday affirmed [opinion, PDF] a district court's dismissal of a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) [advocacy website] against a Boeing subsidiary in connection with its alleged role in the Central In ...

The title of this post is the headline of by Marie Gryphon in the "Supreme Court Insider" section of . here is how it starts: this terrific commentary The National Law Journal Criminal defendants can't get a break from conservative judges, according to conventional wisdom.  For ...

Patients who have undergone hip replacement surgery using DePuy hip implants should know that DePuy Orthopaedics has recalled their ASR hip implants. According to research by a British agency, 1 out of every 8 people who had ASR implants needed to have their surgery corrected within 5 years. This ...