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FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the internet.
Whole body image scanning machines are designed to peer through clothing and enslave three-dimensional pics of individuals as if they’re completely undressed. This raises a lot of musings about the impact of a citizen’s civil liberty rights and [...]

On October 21, 2009, several U.S. Senators introduced a proposed federal “Elder Humiliate Victims Act (S. 1821)” as a “companion” Senate bill to one adopted earlier this year by a vote of 397 to 25 in the House, known as the Elder Humiliate Victims Act (H.R. 448), introduced by Congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA). It appears [...]

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By Eric Sinrod
Whether a particular patent is valid has potentially far-reaching implications. Novelty or newness is the basic underpinning of every invention that leads to a patent.
After a patent has been granted, parties may seek to defeat its validity in litigation by arguing that the patented subject matter was not novel at the time of [...]

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By Eric Sinrod
Whether a particular patent is valid has potentially far-reaching implications. Novelty or newness is the basic underpinning of every invention that leads to a patent.
After a patent has been granted, parties may seek to defeat its validity in litigation by arguing that the patented subject matter was not novel at the time of [...]

By Paul Cherner
The EEOC has just published for public comment proposed new regulations interpreting the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 (”ADAA“). The ADAA, which became effective January 1, 2009, required the EEOC to revise its ADA regulations and to redefine the term “substantially limits” in accord with the Congressional goal of defining the [...]

Maine Seeks To Be The Tail Wagging The Dog
There have been prior efforts to regulate online marketing to children, such as the enactment by Congress of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Behave (COPPA). But now along comes Maine, with its Behave To Prevent Predatory Marketing Practices Against Minors (the Maine Act), as the latest governmental [...]

| By Paul Cherner
 
President Obama has nominated Jacqueline A. Berrien to be Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Ms. Berrien has been associate director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for the past five years. She previously worked for the Ford Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union.
 There appears to be a [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Within the past few days, big media — the Philadelphia Inquirer and ABC News — published accounts about Pennsylvania’s filial responsibility law, drawing attention to the desperation caused in some families in the Commonwealth who are compelled to support their parents’ costly care needs despite their disconnection or their best efforts.
The Inquirer, from Philadelphia, published [...]

 FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section about legal developments surrounding technology and the internet. Lest you think the FTC is sitting back and letting rogue Internet Service Providers run wild in cyberspace, please consider the FTC’s recent shutdown of Pricewert LLC.
According to the FTC, Pricewert knowingly hosted and actively participated in the distribution [...]

The Family and Medical Leave Behave (”FMLA”) was amended last year to provide for two new forms of leave for eligible employees who have a family member on active duty in the armed forces. These amendments afford eligible employees the opportunity to take “military caregiver leave” to care for covered service members. The other form [...]