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Well, that's one way to settle a case: pay the attorneys who sued you, not the victims whose telephone calls Wells Fargo recorded. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, none of that money will go to consumers whose privacy was alleg
In an emergency, seconds count. What if you couldn’t call 911 because you couldn’t reach an outside line? On this episode of Lawyer 2 Lawyer, host J. Craig Williams interviews Henry “Hank” Hunt, the man petitioning for Kari’s Law, and FCC C
There are many cases on the U.S. Supreme Court docket to watch, from the highly publicized Fourth Amendment GPS tracking case in United States v. Jones, to indecency in FCC v. Fox Television, to a prisoner strip search case, Florence v. Boa
Sometimes it's like manna from heaven. Try as I might, I can't make up the stuff that just falls from above. Like this one, for example: the nurse in Georgia who got a ticket for a bumper sticker on her car that read: "I'm tired of all the
In the world of professional gamblers, that's a bet that one of the two contestants will win and the loser will honor. "If you don't keep your word, you don't have much," said Jonathan Grotenstein , the co-author of "All In: The (Almost) En
Tired of receiving junk faxes on your fax machine or computer? After receiving over 1,000 faxes in a three-year period, Travel Agent Sherman Gottlieb was, and he decided to do something about it. He sent by fax instructions to Carnival Corp
How has technology affected your privacy? Can you tell? The Electronic Frontier Foundation can . They've cracked a code of practically invisible yellow dots applied to paper printed on color printers. The code was created by government and
Nine (9) - count 'em - nine (9) search warrants were used to round up a group of unrelated hackers who broke into the LexisNexis database and downloaded identity information of more than 300,000 individuals. Under California law , LexisNexi
You were waiting on the edge of your chair for this one, I know. So much so that you couldn't sleep. Well, now you can relax. It's over. No, it's not the Peterson trial (but yes, there was a collective sigh of relief that the case is finall
Who uses hardcopy Yellow Pages anymore? In fact, I just threw mine away yesterday. What a coincidence. Today, a New York Judge decided that even though one of the two yellow page 800-pound gorillas ( Yellow Book ) behaved badly, there was n
Are our beaches here in California clean , or are we just cheap? Probably not either one. Turns out that we may be being blackmailed . Californians, along with officials in several other states, refused to pay for a group to come here and "
I finally got TiVo for my birthday, and have been enjoying skipping through commercials. I believe that I'm probably watching more television than I used to because of it. Before, I just didn't watch, because I wasn't home when the TV shows
Fax.com has gotten into some hot water , having been fined nearly $6,000,000 by the Federal Communications Commission . What is only slightly funny is that the FCC has a Fax-On-Demand (dial 202-418-2830) for the press release of its fine is
Not happy with cell phone coverage ? Tired of high cell phone bills ? Try boycotting . They're doing it in Lebanon , and expect to have some success - costing the government (who runs the service there) $2.8 million in lost revenues. I thin
We all have them. Credit reports, that is. You know, the ones that TransUnion , Experian , and Equifax keep on all of us. One problem, though. Twenty five percent of them are wrong. So wrong, in fact, that one of four are so bad that they r
Your phone is safe again. The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the national do not call registry last week. You can read the opinion here, and the New York Times article , too. But, you're mailbox is in trouble. The Court of Appeals to
Should you wait until you’re sued to hire a lawyer? At that point, the answer is obviously yes - but what if you haven’t been sued? Do you still need a lawyer? How do you find one? The best way to hire a lawyer is like everything else - by