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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Fired Employees Claim Work iPad Stored Personal Texts
March 31, 2015
A suit by two former New Jersey-based employees of Anheuser-Busch ' claiming they were wrongfully discharged based on messages from their personal devices that were transferred to a company tablet ' is headed for federal court.
<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Hulu Lawyers Land Punch in Privacy Suit
March 31, 2015
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler said she didn't want February's hearing in a privacy suit against Hulu LLC to feel like 'a wake.' But the Northern District of California judge put the case on life support, at the very least, indicating that she's leaning toward knocking out the remaining claims in a 2011 suit under the Video Privacy Protection Act.
<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Judge Orders Litigious Adult Website to Pay $5.6 Million
March 31, 2015
A federal judge has ordered a litigious adult website to pay $5.6 million in attorney fees and costs under the Copyright Act, saying its motives for suing Giganews Inc. and Livewire Services Inc. had more to do with creating a tax write-off for its owner than with protecting its copyrights.
<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Firms Claim Bragging Rights in New Field of Patent Litigation
March 31, 2015
If there really is a'death squad for patents, it may not be found at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. A more likely location is the Plano, TX, office of David O'Dell, chairman of Haynes and Boone's patent trials practice group.
Movers & Shakers
March 30, 2015
A Collection of Moves in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Areas
<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Premera Data Breach Compromises Up to 11 Million Users' Records
March 30, 2015
Over the last year, cyberbreaches targeting health care and insurance companies have made headlines almost as frequently as those of large well-established business. Due to the sensitive material collected by companies in the health care space, companies in this industry are a particularly attractive target to cybercriminals and painful for organizations and their customers.
<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> New Russian Data Residency Law Will Soon Take Effect
March 30, 2015
There is a new Russian data residency law that will likely impact many companies, which somehow have business connections with Russia.
<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Twitch Alerts Users of Potential Data Breach
March 30, 2015
Retail giants, banks and insurance firms may be the companies most likely to make headlines following a cyberbreach, but that doesn't mean that smaller organizations and services are without risk, nor does it mean that the data these businesses collect are any less sensitive when compromised.
<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Law Firms to Form Cybersecurity Alliance
March 30, 2015
As pressure to strengthen defenses against security breaches increases, at least five Am Law 100 and Magic Circle firms are working to form an alliance that would allow them to ultimately share information with each other about cyber threats and vulnerability.
Court Watch
March 27, 2015
CA District Court Misconstrues State Franchise Relations Act in Granting Transfer Motion<br>Franchisee Argues For Automatic Termination Under CFRA<br>GA Court Sends Determination of Whether a Distributor Is a Dealer to Jury

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