Ruling Lets Firms Bar Union E-mail
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The ruling lets employers prohibit workers from using corporate e-mail to distribute union-related messages.
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U.S. companies will need to know more about where they store e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees in the event they are sued, thanks to changes in federal rules that took effect Friday, legal experts say.
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The U.K. government is bringing in new regulations to resolve those painful occasions when that "funny" workplace e-mail ends up in the wrong in-box. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) will, from Oct.
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A ruling against the European Commission in the Microsoft antitrust case could affect its ability to regulate competition.
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A US federal appeals court yesterday upheld a district court ruling in favor of an individual whose e-mail records were copied by government investigators from servers at Yahoo and another ISP. In so doing, the court may have prevented the government from loosely applying a key tool in its ability to obtain e-mail records without a warrant: the Stored Communications Act.
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(InfoWorld) - A prominent spam research organization based in London will ignore a US$11.7 million judgment against it by a U.S. federal judge since it can't be enforced in the U.K. Steven Linford, chief executive officer of the Spamhaus Project, said Friday the lawsuit was filed by David Linhardt, whose e-mail messages that advertised bargain goods were considered spam by his organization. The judgment was handed down on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. The Spamhaus Project compiles a constantly updated list of computers that are sending unsolicited bulk e-mail. The list is used by major security and technology vendors, including Microsoft Corp. The Spamhaus Project has been targeted before in the U.S. by lawsuits from known spammers. Spamhaus officials don't show up in court, and the result is a default judgment against Spamhaus, Linford said. Linford said the plaintiffs mislead U.S. judges by claiming Spamhaus is headquartered in the U.S. Spamhaus has even informed spammers that they should file lawsuits in the U.K., but most won't since their bulk e-mail operations -- while often complying with U.S. law -- would violate antispam laws in the U.K. "It's every spammer's dream to be able to sue us," Linford said. No U.S. bulk mailer has filed a case in the U.K. since under British law foreigners who file lawsuits are responsible for the defendants' legal fees if they lose, Linford said. Spam comprises up to 90 percent of all e-mail, and its senders have shown increasing technical proficiency at evading measures to block unsolicited messages, Linford said. The Spamhaus Project blocks some eight billion to 10 billion spam messages a day, he said. Â
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Antispam activists disagree about the effect of the major federal court judgment against three spammers.
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New federal e-discovery rules that took effect Dec. 1 are prompting some users to install e-mail archiving software or other tools that can make it easier to search through message directories.
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Burst.com asked a US judge to penalize Microsoft for destroying e-mails it says the world&#39;s largest software company should have preserved as evidence in antitrust suits.
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A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court&#39;s decision that a Minnesota agency can&#39;t regulate calls through cyberspace like it does calls through traditional phone lines.
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A U.S. labor panel ruling on Tuesday expanded the number of employees who can be considered supervisors -- a decision opponents said would strip millions of American workers of their rights to join a union.
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Middlesex Superior Court has rejected a bid by Globe Direct, the direct mail subsidiary of The Boston Globe, to block a Wilmington direct mail firm from using information alleged to have been misappropriated by former Globe Direct employees, the Wilmington firm said yesterday.
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IT managers may want to read and consider the implications of how new rulings set to take effect may impact their organization.
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The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear appeals in two cases concerning the right of the entertainment industry to subpoena file-traders and whether telecommunication companies have to share their networks with startup competitors.ADVERTISEMENTSBC Case Study: Crate & BarrelWhat sold them on improving their network? A system that could cut management costs from the get-go. Find out more.
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LUXEMBOURG/BRUSSELS  - A European Union court on  Wednesday upheld curbs imposed by the EU's executive on  Microsoft, dismissing the software giant's appeal for a  suspension, according to a document obtained by Reuters.
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Employers welcome a European Court of Justice ruling allowing companies to continue to reward workers for long service.
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Lawyers who offer to help reporters by sending them copies of court documents by fax or e-mail do so at the peril of losing their immunity to defamation suits, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled.