Google / Search Engines
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Breasts, Free Speech, Google / Search Engines, Health Care / Medicine, Privacy
An Allegedly Botched Boob Job Leads a Plastic Surgeon to Try To Give His Google Search Results a Facelift
A cutting-edge legal complaint in Europe over internet reputation could force Google to rethink how it handles individuals’ control over the search results for their names. Spanish plastic surgeon Hugo Guidotti Russo wanted Google to liposuction from his results a 1991 news article about a patient angry about an allegedly botched breast surgery. The article […] -
Google / Search Engines, Musical Chairs, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.04.11
* Musical chairs: Donald M. Remy leaves Latham to become the new general counsel for the NCAA. No offense, but I hope he’s terrible at his job. The NCAA needs to be sued by all comers until they stop profiteering off the sweat of poor young athletes so that old, rich university presidents can make […] - Sponsored
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Antitrust, Gay, Google / Search Engines, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.01.10
* One soldier responded to the Pentagon’s DADT survey by asking “How far are we going to go with this whole gay thing? Am I supposed to celebrate gayness – do they get to wear a rainbow flag on their uniform?” Just the tip, sure, and only if they earn the badge. [Washington Post] * […]
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Crime, Cyberlaw, Google / Search Engines, Privacy, Technology
Check You Gmail: Google Engineer Accused of Being a Little Evil
An engineer at Google may have abused his unfettered access to users’ account information. Gawker reports that David Barksdale, 27, a former Site Reliability Engineer with Google, allegedly tapped into the accounts of four teenagers, using information from their Gmail, Google Voice, and GTalk chat accounts in order to harass them. Gawker doesn’t provide much […] -
Biglaw, Gay, Gay Marriage, Google / Search Engines, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Tax Law
Biglaw Perk Watch: A Follow-Up on Google's Gay Gross-Up
If you’re a gay employee and have a domestic partner who receives health benefits through your employer, you have to pay more in federal income tax — about $1,000 a year, on average. This is because federal law, thanks to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), doesn’t recognize same-sex marriages. As a result, the feds […] -
Biglaw, Gay, Gay Marriage, Google / Search Engines, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Tax Law
Biglaw Perk Watch: Google's Gay Gross-Up
It’s good to be gay at Google — or a “Gaygler,” as they call themselves. And not just because the company sometimes has a float in the San Francisco Pride parade. The New York Times recently reported: [Last] Thursday, Google [began] covering a cost that gay and lesbian employees must pay when their partners receive […] -
Biglaw, Google / Search Engines, Law Shucks, YouTube
This Week in Biglaw: 06.27.10
Ed. note: Law Shucks focuses on life in, and after, BigLaw, including by tracking layoffs, bonuses, and laterals. Above the Law is pleased to bring you this weekly column, which analyzes news at the world’s top law firms. One of the many interesting features of BigLaw is the comings and goings of its denizens. Whether […] -
Google / Search Engines, Judge of the Day, Privacy, Technology
Google's Privacy-Invading Street View Cars Should Avoid Judge Larry Burns's House
Google has stepped in the privacy sh*t again. The Google cars collecting data for Google Maps’s nifty Street View service have also been inadvertently collecting information off of people’s unsecured wireless networks. If someone’s Wi-Fi account lacked a password and encryption, the cars had the ability to snatch some data. Google claims the Wi-Fi sniffing […] - Sponsored
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Google / Search Engines, Social Networking Websites
Google Gets Buzzed With A Class Action Lawsuit
Google launched its version of a social networking site last week with Buzz. Many people were royally pissed dismayed by the privacy flaws in the initial launch. Google took the list of people that users emailed most frequently and created a public “friend list.” As TechCrunch pointed out, “merging something designed for public broadcasting (Buzz) […] -
Books, Denny Chin, Google / Search Engines, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Please Don't Do Us Evil
The benefits of approval are bounded only by the limits of human creativity and imagination. — Google, to Judge Denny Chin, in a brief before today’s hearing about Google’s class action settlement with authors and publishers over Google Book Search. -
Books, Google / Search Engines
The Google Books Settlement
Earlier this week, we attended an interesting debate about the Google Books settlement. It featured Professor Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School, who argued against the settlement, and Jonathan Jacobson of Wilson Sonsini, who defended it. The debate, held at the Cornell Club and sponsored by the Federalist Society, was moderated by […] -
Biglaw, Google / Search Engines
Google's Layoff Predictions?
A tipster has pointed out an interesting Google trend to us: A sign of the times in the legal industry that I thought you might find interesting: if you have Google’s search suggestion turned on, and begin to type in virtually any law firm’s name, one of the top suggestions that comes up is that […] -
Antonin Scalia, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Books, Civil Rights, Google / Search Engines, Morning Docket, William Rehnquist
Morning Docket 11.18.08
* Change you can believe in? It looks like Obama has recruited a few “washington insiders”: 8 of the 10 top lawyers he has hired for his transition team are veterans of the Clinton administration. [Bloomberg.com] * After his hunt yesterday, Justice Antonin Scalia told a room full of big-time Texas lawyers that he disagreed […]
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Google / Search Engines
Thank God For Good Lawyers: Google Destroys Libraries, Not The Law
As we mentioned in Morning Docket, Google reached a settlement with publishers and authors to finally bring the Dewey Decimal System into the digital age. Most lay people think that lawyers serve an annoying, anti-common sense role in society. But every now and again lawyers perform the important function of keeping “the law” safe from […] -
Google / Search Engines, Intellectual Property, Technology
Google Chrome Owns Your Thoughts
Google is getting into the browser wars with their new Chrome product. As Futurelawyer points out, who needs a new browser (besides anybody who still uses IE)? But Chrome is made by Google and Google knows what they are doing so we assume the product will sell. Take a closer look at the boilerplate Terms […] -
Blogging, Google / Search Engines, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, Technology
Non-Sequiturs: 08.18.08
* Nationwide Layoff Watch: Nannies. [Dealbreaker] * Was Findlaw gaming Google? Bad, Findlaw, bad. [Real Lawyers Have Blogs] * Stupid Patent Case of the Week? [Mendelson’s Musings] * We knew him way back when: a profile of Atlanta AUSA Jon-Peter Kelly (with whom we went to high school and college). [Fulton County Daily Report] * […] -
Defamation, Free Speech, Google / Search Engines, Media and Journalism, Technology
The Google Hit Dilemma(Or: another reason not to name your kid 'Shakespear')
The embarrassing Google hit is one of the great new fears of the modern age. If the number-one Google hit for your name is your work bio, Corporate Challenge race-time results, or nothing at all, consider yourself lucky. You could have something worse, like, “Kashmir Hill. Is that her real name or her porn screen […] -
Admin, Announcements, Antitrust, Google / Search Engines, Microsoft, Morning Docket, Politics, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
Morning Docket: 02.04.08
[Ed. note: We’re looking for someone to share Morning Docket duties with B. Clerker (on an alternating-week schedule). If you’d like to be considered for this position, please follow the application instructions contained in this post. The main thing that has changed between then and now is that the gig now comes with pay — […]
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Barack Obama, Death Penalty, Google / Search Engines, Hillary Clinton, Kramer Levin, Media and Journalism, Microsoft, Morning Docket, Munger Tolles & Olson, New York Times, Pictures, Politics, Sports
Morning Docket: 02.01.08
* NFL Union president prepared for strike. [ESPN] * Microsoft offers to acquire Yahoo for $44.6 billion to compete with Google. [MSNBC] * Times reporter subpoenaed over “State of War” source. [New York Times] * French President and supermodel girlfriend sue over pictures. [Washington Post via WSJ Law Blog] * HLS grad Obama and YLS […]
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Ann Althouse, Blogging, Google / Search Engines, Guns / Firearms, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Tim Wu, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 11.09.07
It’s Friday, just shy of 5 PM Eastern time. Where are the bonus announcements? The silence is suspicious. If you’re sitting on bonus news that we haven’t reported, please reach out to us by email (subject line: “Associate Bonus Watch”). Thanks. * Ann Althouse: We love it when she gets medieval — or should we […]