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Monthly Archives: May 2006

Curto v. Medical World Communications – Attorney client privilege on recovered documents

20th
May. ร— โ€™06
By Kevin A. Thompson
Curto v. Medical World Communications, Inc., et al. Decided May 15, 2006, E. District of New York, No. 03 CV 6327 (2006 WL 1318387) Plaintiff, Lara Curto, has an ongoing EEOC complaint against the Defendants.ย  While still employed, she used company-issued laptops in her home office to correspond with her attorneys.ย  She was careful to [...]
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Net Neutrality Update

12th
May. ร— โ€™06
By Kevin A. Thompson
I’ve been following the debate over Net Neutrality rather closely. Since more and more of our economy depends on the Internet for basic functionality, like the reliable functioning of email, VOIP, and telecommuting applications, this debate concerns *everyone.* Higher costs for Internet traffic will be passed along to the economy and end users ultimately. Further, [...]
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Spyware Installer ordered to pay $4,000,000 in Restitution

4th
May. ร— โ€™06
By Kevin A. Thompson
Sanford Wallace, former spammer and now spyware installer with his company Smartbot.Net, today was ordered by a New Hampshire district court to pay restitution to consumers in the amount of four million dollars. Co-defendants OptinTrade and Jared Lansky were required to pay $227,000 in restitution. The complaint alleges that the Defendants installed spyware on user’s [...]
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