Freedom from Religion, Fracking under Attack, FBI Warrants, Fortune 500 Cybersecurity… Yes, It’s…
… this week’s JD Supra Buzz. Here’s what we learned in law news:
The Freedom from Religion Foundation has asked the U of Tennessee to stop praying before football games (TN Law Center)
Google has challenged an FBI search warrant seeking the unlock code for the phone of a man accused of running a prostitution business (Lawyers.com)
Is the price of an illegal song download dropping? (Mintz Levin)
Regulators and environmental groups continue to target fracking operations (Spilman Thomas & Battle)
Dear CEO: What is your company doing re cybersecurity protection? Signed, Senator John Rockefeller (King & Spalding)
The Green Card lottery opens on October 2, 2012 (Proskauer)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has had a very very busy first year (Morgan Lewis)
The NLRB did not like Costco’s social media policy. Not at all. (Mintz Levin)
The European Commission is lobbying for centralized bank supervision (Corporate Law Report)
The Center for Responsive Politics tracks the lobbying and political activities of approximately 20,000 organizations (King & Spalding)
A Colorado man who claimed to contracted a rare lung disease from making and eating two to three bags a day of microwave popcorn was awarded nearly $7.3 million in damages (Dinsmore & Shohl)
If you’re keeping score at home, it’s Panties: 1, Fair Use Doctrine: 0 (Greenberg Glusker)
Hold on – do you have any actual proof you’re the Libyan Embassy, or do you expect me to just take your word for it? (Ifrah Law)
Can employees take sick leave when they’re not sick? No, it’s not a trick question (Pullman & Comley)
Sean Connery can’t survive in a Daniel Craig world. Yes, we’re talking about HIPAA (Davis Brown)
California’s Proposition 37 is turning organic friends into enemies, six weeks before it goes to the polls (Is That Legal?)
Brazil is doing what it can to eliminate corruption ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, but that may not be enough (Michael Volkov)
Free expression rights in turbulent world: Google blocks access to an anti-Islam video in Libya and Egypt (Foley Hoag)
Michigan Supreme Court upholds law barring medical marijuana providers from making a profit on the legal drug (XpertHR)
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