The first caveat is that I'm sorry I haven't posted anything
recently. Work here at Alerding Castor Hewitt has been going
like gangbusters and yours truly has been up to his distinguished
eyeballs in work. Trust me, however, I'm now dutifully
committing myself to continue providing insight and humor as your
Indiana Internet Litigation guru.
Second caveat is that this post actually has nothing to do with
privacy litigation, software litigation or really any other
technology law issues. ...
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Your friendly neighborhood litigation attorney at Alerding Castor
Hewitt, LLP with a final post for the year to all of our business,
Indiana internet litigation, and technology law
clients. Saturday, December
25th will no doubt be a date of celebration in many
homes. As you spend time with your
family, remember how special the day is and all of the changes that
have taken place in the last 20 years.
Some of you might wonder what I mean exactly. I’m not referring to Christmas. And for those...
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Ok, I'll admit it. I was in a rut. Although I found
numerous interesting tidbits through-out cyberspace, I could not
find anything that piqued my interest enough to put aside the
billable hours of a technology legal counsel for a few moments to
blog about it. But, lo and behold, a college student with a
sense of panache, an aspiration for humor, decent journaling
skills, and access to PowerPoint and the Internet has become my
muse.
For those of you that don't know, 2010 Duke graduate...
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Another
post that doesn't quite fit neatly into Indiana Internet litigation
or privacy law, but that intrigues me. BusinessWeek, passing
along a Tim Greene article from NetworkWorld (found here:
www.networkworld.com/nwlookup.jsp),
is reporting that the U.S. military has issued an essay in which it
urges its expertise in defense be put to use in protecting civilian
networked infrastructure, such as power grids, financial
institutions, etc. The essay from Foreign Affairs sets out
the concept...
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I don't often blanket repost other blogs that I see, however, in
this instance, I think it is appropriate. Venkat, writing for
Professor Goldman's blog, writes an excellent analysis of the
recent ruling in the
In re: Easysaver Rewards Litigation(S.D. Cal. August 13, 2010). This is a very interesting case
in that it covers several different, more traditional causes of
action and analysis. I'm interested to see what ramification
this case is going to have on SaaS law and privacy
litigation....
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Back in October, 2009, I posted about the new endorsement /
testimonial rules set out by the Federal Trad Commission (
blog.alerdingcastor.com/blog/alerding-castor/0/0/ftc-makes-changes-to-blog-law).
There has been some development since that time, but mostly
everyone is still watching and waiting. The FTC did
threaten to pursue Ann Taylor back in April, but otherwise, it has
been relatively silent.
That is, however, until now. On August 26, 2010, the FTC
reached a settlement with Reverb...
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The ACH litigation team had its first ever (as far as I'm aware)
litigation retreat this weekend, and as I reminisce on our time, I
am struck by the realization that to be a successful business, you
have to allow your team to envision and strive for excellence with
you. This weekend we had some great discussion and
"vision-casting" on the areas of privacy litigation, Indiana
probate litigation, business law, Internet litigation, banking law,
SaaS litigation, and several other areas where we are...
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Your friendly Indianapolis attorney and Partner In Success at
Alerding Castor Hewitt, LLP here with another post, this time for
both business entities and lawyers who find themselves in the
trenches of business law, SaaS law, internet laws, and privacy
litigation and probate litigation.
Partner and fellow blogger Dave Castor sort of beat me to the bunch
by pointing out a great blog post by Michael P. Alerding (ACH’s
Mike Alerding’s father) at Alerding & Co., LLC, which Dave
re-posted below. I...
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Your friendly neighborhood technology counsel here: A couple
of recent state court decisions are going to start personal injury
attorneys frothing at the mouth, and might render some sleepless
nights for defense attorneys. Both Ohio and Florida recently
issued opinions in which they applied their state's respective
long-arm statutes to garner personal jurisdiction over an
out-of-state resident for tortious conduct that transpired over the
Internet.
First, you need to know what a long-arm...
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I am speaking this afternoon at the
MBO Conference on the Legal Landscape of
Corporate Blogging. It was an honor to be invited to
participate in this year's conference, and I am truly looking
forward to the time.
As an Indiana technology lawyer I monitor areas of law that impact
my clients' business worlds. My colleagues and I monitor
Internet laws, privacy laws, ASP law, SaaS law, cloud computing
law, and various other areas of business law to best advise our
clients on how to navigate the...
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For anyone involved in
blogging or interested in information technology law or Internet
privacy law, there is a strange case with some important lessons
which was handed down by the District Court Western District of
Kentucky last week. The case is
Yoder v.
University of Louisville, 2009 WL 2406235 (W.D. Ky. Aug. 3,
2009).
The opinion is summarized well by Eric Goldman on the
Technology & Marketing
Blog.
Nina Yoder was a University of Louisville nursing student. She
posted a blog post to MySpace...
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Section 230 of the Communications
Decency Act (
47
USC 230), entitled “Protection for private blocking and
screening of offensive material”, is an important federal statute
for any interactive computer service provider. As a
technology lawyer, my law practice largely focuses on SaaS law,
software licensing law and Internet based businesses, this statute
impacts several of my clients.
The statute essentially provides protection for providers of
interactive computer services against information...
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For my first foray into the world of blogging,
I think the important first step is to answer the standard
journalism questions necessary for any good story, namely, the who,
what, when, where, and why. Sorry for
the length. I promise that future blogs will be
shorter. Without further adieu, here we
go . . . .
Who: This one is easy because I
know a lot about me. My name is Chris
Stephen and I consider myself first and foremost a
litigator. Some people in my field like
to classify themselves...
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