Posted on April 7, 2008 by Tracey
Boston University students have all been assured of more privacy for their internet activities since last week, when a federal judge ruled that BU cannot turn over the names of students who have used sites suspected by the recording industry of enabling illegal downloads of music files. Recording companies have brought some 20,000 cases nationwide [...]
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Posted on February 23, 2008 by Tracey
Alex Friedmann spent six years in a Tennessee prison run by the world’s largest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America. During his sentence Friedmann sued CCA, alleging the company retaliated against him for critical comments made to the press. Now an editor at Prison Legal News, Friedmann has found that Gus Puryear, general counsel [...]
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Posted on November 7, 2007 by Tracey
IN THE NEWS…James Marchese reported his employer, Cell Therapeutics, to the federal government for defrauding Medicare while promoting a medication for cancer. The government sued Cell Therapeutics. The government also claimed Marchese should receive none of the resulting settlement, due to his alleged involvement in the fraud. ( The New York Times) The judge eventually [...]
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