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Potential legal challenges to the application of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in public libraries: Strategies and issues, by Paul T. Jaeger and Charles R. McClure “The legal issues that might be used to challenge the Courts decision include least restrictive alternative, vagueness, overbreadth, request policies, prior restraints, public forum, and limitations on political …
An article in today’s Washington Post focuses on the growing volume of sensitive personal data, aggregated on commercial, corporate, academic and government websites, that is accessible via search engines. Mistakes that result from inexpert programming, server vulnerabilities and configuration related issues facilitate the compromise of personal data, the results of which are chronicled with growing …
From site manager John Doyle: Washington & Lee’s Most-Cited Legal Periodicals: U.S. and selected non-U.S. “has been enhanced with the addition of an article submissions process. This allows authors to sort the journal list in citation-rank order, to select down to a (hopefully) limited list of journals to submit an article to, and then to …
Ron Suskind, has posted 175 pages of source documents cited in The Price of Loyalty, his recent book on the Bush administration. The documents were provided to him by former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill. A February 7 Washington Post article stated in reference to the controversy concerning O’Neill’s receipt of these documents, “The department said …
At E-Gov’s Web-Enabled Government Conference on February 5, the Excellence.gov “Top 5” award winnners were announced as: Small Business Administration’s BusinessLaw.gov Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (Edgar) Department of Health and Human Services, National Practitioner Data Bank Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency Department of Defense, Defense Information …
Primary Education: Election Reform and the 2004 Presidential Race, by electionline.org and The Century Foundation (48 pages, pdf) “Millions of American will return to the polls in the coming weeks to cast ballots in the 2004 primaries. This is the first presidential contest since the 2000 election, which exposed flaws in America’s voting process, and …
From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities a fact sheet and a new report, Analysis of the President’s New Budget. “Between 2000 and 2004, the budget declined by an amount equal to 6.6 percent of GDP, from a surplus of 2.4 percent of GDP to a deficit of 4.2 percent of GDP. This was …
From the Federal Register: February 6, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 25), Page 5693-5702: “The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is announcing final regulations that set rates and terms for the public performance of a sound recording made pursuant to a statutory license by means of certain eligible nonsubscription transmissions and digital transmissions made …
“California Secretary of State Kevin Shelley on Thursday announced measures to improve election security in the wake of a report describing how votes can be easily manipulated by hacking into an electronic voting system used across California.” [Link]
President Bush Announces Formation of Independent Commission “Today, by executive order, I am creating an independent commission, chaired by Governor and former Senator Chuck Robb, Judge Laurence Silberman, to look at American intelligence capabilities, especially our intelligence about weapons of mass destruction…I’m also naming, today, Senator John McCain; Lloyd Cutler, former White House Counsel to …
On February 4, Delaware Governor Ruth Ann Minner announced the launch of New Online Corporate Services that “allow residents, businesses, legal professionals and other customers to: reserve corporate names, get basic corporate information, confirm the status of Delaware corporations, and, get filing history and other information on Delaware corporations.” Corporate Name Reservation and Information service, …
“E-mail communication to and from The Washington Post was disrupted yesterday after its washpost.com Internet address was shut down because the company failed to renew its $35 annual registration.” [Link] See also this internetnews.com article.