Myspace

* Antitrust litigation against Facebook has been dismissed. Maybe the court thought that MySpace was a viable competitor… [Wall Street Journal]

* Be sure to check out the Anti-Defamation League’s annual Supreme Court review. [ADL]

* A South Carolina lawyer has been suspended from practice for incendiary Facebook posts he made about George Floyd. [New York Post]

* A Trump attorney claimed yesterday that the Manhattan DA is investigating the Trump Organization for charges relating to company perks. [Hill]

* E-cigarette company Juul has paid $40 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it improperly advertised its products to teens. That’s a lot of money that went up in smoke… [CNN]

* Facebook could be hit with antitrust litigation as soon as this week. Don’t get it, people still use MySpace…right? [Washington Post]

* A former lawyer and an active attorney have been charged with allegedly writing fraudulent opinion letters. [ABA Journal]

* More than 1,500 attorneys from across the country have signed a letter condemning the Trump Campaign’s legal team. [Hill]

* A New York lawyer is accused of steeling eight properties from unsuspecting clients through deed fraud. [New York Daily News]

* Kamala Harris’s sister is allegedly advancing the name of Kamala’s brother-in-law to be Joe Biden’s Attorney General. There is some precedent for nepotism in the Attorney General position… [Politico]

* The New York Attorney General has announced a settlement with Dunkin’ over a security breach. I don’t mind others knowing how much pumpkin coffee I’ve been drinking… [CBS News]

* Oral arguments at New York’s highest court were canceled earlier this month because one of the attorneys had a high temperature. [Brooklyn Eagle]

* The Justice Department is looking into whether John Bolton (not Michael Bolton) improperly divulged confidential information in his new book. [Fox News]

* A Texas lawyer has pleaded guilty to smuggling drugs into a jail. [CBS News]

* Facebook apparently may be subject to an antitrust lawsuit sometime this year. MySpace is still a competitor of theirs…. right? [Yahoo News]

* The family of Breonna Taylor has settled their claims against the City of Louisville, Kentucky, for $12 million. [CNN]

* A new lawsuit asserts Bud Light’s Lime-A-Ritas falsely suggest they have tequila. Maybe Bud can assert the “beer before liquor, never sicker” defense. [Fox News]

Yesterday, MySpace settled with the FTC over allegations of deceptive privacy practices. Are we surprised?

Back in 2009, some teen girls in Indiana had a sleepover that lived up to any teen boy’s fantasy version of one. After racy photos from the summer slumber party made their way to the principal’s office, two of the athletes in attendance were suspended from school sports for the year. What did the court have to say about their First Amendment right to post slutty photos of themselves online?

The practice of “oversharing” on social networks has been a boon for law enforcement. Investigations regularly involve checking out people’s Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn profiles. Thus, it’s probably unwise to post about your involvement in a crime. Or about threatening a witness set to testify against your boyfriend. While investigating Antoine Griffin, a murder suspect […]

Many large law firms forbid their lawyers from visiting social-media sites while at work. Some have actual software blocks, preventing sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even blogs like Above the Law from loading on the firm computers. Other firms tacitly discourage visiting these sites, since every six minutes wasted on them are six minutes that could have been billed. Small firms are less likely to have these policies or blocking programs, mainly because small firms are less likely to have any policies. Or IT departments. This is partly a generational issue. On the one hand, you've got the Millennials: twenty-somethings who are used to having IM chats, Pandora music, and Facebook walls floating in the background while they bash away at Lexis or Microsoft Word. On the other hand, you have more-senior (or just plain "senior") lawyers, for whom the Interwebs are something to either be feared or restricted to off-duty hours.