Ironically, Mr. Harper misses the most significant recent dislocation in the practice of law, which is at the consumer end of the market: the rise of low-cost online law firms like LegalZoom and RocketLawyer that aid clients in drafting standard partnerships, wills, leases and the like.
Ultimately, however, the compact states want Congress to pass a law requiring online and mail-order merchants to collect their taxes.
In the United States the situation with real-money online gambling is more complicated - the law currently forbids banks and others offering payment processing services to betting services targeted at US citizens.
He was relentless and creative in cultivating celebrities for the cause, including Sting and Daryl Hannah, and in eliciting support from wealthy patrons such as Russ DeLeon, a law-school contemporary who had made a fortune through an online-gambling venture.
The car-dealership industry, where online-only retailing was prohibited by law, did not lose jobs.
Finally, a third federal law that may disallow online, pay-to-enter NCAA Tournament pools is the Uniform Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
Among the recommendations in the 225-page study were better co-ordination with law enforcement agencies and online security assessments for schools.
Saying an old e-mail or your online photo album should have the same privacy protection from police as your home filing cabinet, Google, Microsoft and others said Tuesday they will ask Congress to overhaul a 24-year-old federal law that helps define online and mobile phone privacy.
One federal law that seems to prohibit online, pay-to-enter NCAA Tournament pools is the Interstate Wire Act of 1961.
Currently, federal law exempts so-called private transactions, which can include online sales and sales at gun shows.
The Department of Justice for a very long time has declared that facilitating for-money online poker violates U.S. law.
The Seattle-based online retailer says it complies with the law.
He brushes off the fact that his new strategic partner operates in the U.S. while the Justice Department takes the position that facilitating for-money online poker violates U.S. law.
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Federal prosecutorial efforts against online poker have in recent years focused on the role of payment processors, making it seem to some that the government does not have a high degree of confidence in its position that facilitating for-money online poker violates U.S. law, specifically the wire act.
More importantly, if Grooveshark must build a uniform site-wide operational process to deal with the small minority of user-uploaded recordings protected by state copyright law, then the DMCA online safe harbors failed at a fundamental level.
So Reidenberg challenged his information privacy law class to cyber-stalk Scalia as a lesson in the transparency of personal information online.
It starts with after-school educational centers called Score, moves to the core test-prep business, on to Concord University School of Law, the nation's first online law school, and right up through BrassRing, a career development service Kaplan formed with Accel Partners and the Tribune (TRB) Co. last year.
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But let's say the Internet sales-tax bill becomes law, and Senator Cruz is sitting at home in Houston, doing some online shopping.
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