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Jess Bravin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on January 23 at 9:43 am PT
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police must obtain a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s vehicle, voting unanimously in one of the first major cases to test constitutional privacy rights in the digital age.
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Tricia Duryee in Commerce on July 25, 2011 at 9:22 am PT
Last month, videogame publishers
celebrated the Supreme Court ruling that declared a California law banning the sale of violent videogames to minors unconstitutional. This week, the Entertainment Software Association is asking to be reimbursed $1.1 million in attorneys’ fees from the State of California. The ESA believes it should be compensated because the legislators knew the law was unconstitutional based on earlier court findings, but continued to pursue it anyway.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on June 27, 2011 at 4:41 pm PT
Videogame publishers celebrated the Supreme Court decision today that ruled that a California law banning the sale of violent videogames to minors is unconstitutional, but the issue may be far from dead.
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Brent Kendall, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 27, 2011 at 9:08 am PT
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a California law banning the sale of violent videogames to minors is unconstitutional. The court, in a 7-2 vote, said the law violated First Amendment free-speech protections.
Liz Gannes in Social on May 16, 2011 at 5:50 pm PT
Following the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to deny Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss’s request to rehear their case versus Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, the twins’ lawyer said they intended to file to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Kara Swisher in News on April 11, 2011 at 11:27 am PT
It seems Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the Don Quixote twins of the digital age, have tilted at yet another legal windmill unsuccessfully.
So now, after losing another court challenge to overturn a previous court challenge, they’ll
have to settle for $65 million.
Actually, $100 million, which is how much shares in Facebook have appreciated since the pair and also Divya Narendra settled with the social networking giant.
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Justin Lahart, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 18, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
The rapid growth in internet sales is great for online retailers. But it’s not such good news for state and local governments.
The Commerce Department reported Thursday that e-commerce retail sales totaled $44 billion in the fourth quarter last year, up from $38 billion a year earlier. E-commerce sales now account for 4.3 percent of total retail sales (which include lots of things that don’t get bought online, like new cars, gasoline and restaurant meals), up from one percent a decade ago. For the year, e-commerce sales totaled $165 billion.
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Nick Feamster, assistant professor, Georgia Tech School of Computer Science in News on February 11, 2011 at 9:46 am PT
Nearly 60 countries around the world censor Internet communications in some form, but Egypt’s recent complete shutdown of Internet communications was unprecedented.
Should free and open communication—particularly free and open communication via the Internet—be considered an unalienable right? How much control should a government or Internet service provider wield over its citizens’ communications?
Liz Gannes in Social on December 30, 2010 at 11:09 am PT
If you run a user-generated content site, takedown notices from copyright holders are a fact of life. That even goes for Twitter, where messages are limited to 140 characters of text. The site received on the order of 300 takedown notices in the last month.
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Jess Bravin, Senior Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 3, 2010 at 12:00 am PT
The Supreme Court seemed split Tuesday over First Amendment protection for videogames, scrambling the justices’ typical ideological lineup in a conflict between a new medium’s free expression rights and government efforts to shield youth from bad influences.
