Month: August 2016
iMEGA v. Holder: Third Circuit Rejects Gaming Industry Group’s Constitutional Challenges to Federal Internet Gambling Law (UIGEA)
Internet gaming: On September 1, 2009, the 3rd Circuit handed down an opinion rejecting several facial challenges to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006 (31 U.S.C. § 5361). This decision was on a suit brought by the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association - iMEGA -- a...
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Employer Access of Employee Digital Communications and Federal Wiretap Laws: It’s Easier to Be Found Immune if the Communications Reside on Your Servers
Employers seeking to discover what their employees are doing and writing on the internet will can find themselves out of the reach of federal wiretap laws (under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ["ECPA"] and the Stored Communications Act ["SCA"]) so long as they limit their efforts to intercepting and accessing...
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Recent Federal Court Ruling Would Make It Easy to Sue Foreign Website Operators in U.S. Courts
A recent ruling shows how easy it can be for a company that markets its services via a website to find itself a defendant in a United States federal court. In a trademark infringement case brought over competing claims to the "LifeAlert" trademark, a federal judge ruled on December 29,...
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