Today’s Buzz: Election Apps, Prosecutorial Misconduct, CFPB Mystery Shoppers, More

What we learned today in law. From JD Supra:

The Stored Communications Act allows social media providers to disclose certain subscriber information to governmental entities with a simple request (LXBN) 

US Citizenship & Immigration just may be counting H-1B visa processing times in dog years (Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shors & Roberts, P.C.) 

Smartphone users should exercise caution when downloaded election-related apps (Electronic Privacy Information Center) 

The Federal Trade Commission may be changing the rules for premerger notification of pharmaceutical patent licenses (Ropes & Gray LLP) 

Is prosecutorial misconduct really on the rise? Mike Volkov thinks that’s besides the question (Michael Volkov) 

Wireless service providers and the FCC are heading for a privacy showdown (Davis Wright Tremaine LLP) 

Just because you can copy a photo on the Internet doesn’t mean you have the rights to do so (Mintz Levin) 

The U.S. Patent and Trademark office just published the final rules for handling contested patent cases (Fenwick & West LLP) 

Online video streaming provider Hulu.com is subject to the Video Privacy Protection Act, and as such prohibited from disclosing user information to third parties (Davis Wright Tremaine LLP) 

Those “mystery shopper” advertisements you see might in fact be from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Ballard Spahr LLP) 

The cost of government investigations might be covered by business insurance (McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC) 

Being placed on administrative leave is not an “adverse employment action” against Burbank cop (Kronick, Moskovitz, Tiedemann & Girard) 

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