Ah ha, hush that fuss Everybody move to the back of the bus Do you wanna bump slump with us We the type of people make the club get crunk In September 1998, the Atlanta-based musical group OutKast released a song titled Rosa Parks which contained the above lyrics in the chorus. In Parks v. …

Recently several states have launched investigations of certain MCI telephone call routings based on competitors’ claims that the company eliminated or reduced payments it should have made. The MCI investigations may uncover instances of unlawful practices designed to shore up revenues, reduce payments to local exchange carriers for call delivery, avoid tax liability and shift …

Librarians and library associations have been outspoken critics of the expanded surveillance powers granted law enforcement with passage of the USA PATRIOT Act in 2001. Librarians’ organized protests have given impetus to community and legislative efforts to curtail the expanded power, and librarians have also had a small role in lawsuits challenging the Act. The …

We are in the Wild West of privacy and security today. As was the case with consumers of food and drugs one hundred years ago, today’s consumers know little about the actual practices of companies that have their personal information. There is skyrocketing identity theft, stalking made possible through the sale of personal information, and …

On October 26, 2001, only six weeks after the unfathomable horror of September 11, President Bush signed the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (“PATRIOT Act”).2 The bill was more than 340 pages long, had significant changes in its final days, and affects more …

Many articles have explored the explosive growth of Internet gambling. As of August 2000, over forty percent of American homes has access to the Internet, and an estimated 4.5 million Americans had already gambled online at least once. Some ambitious forecasts predict that by the year 2006, Internet gambling will become a $100 billion a …

This Recent Development focuses on a specific type of surveillance: private employers’ monitoring of their employees’ personal webmail accounts, such as Yahoo or Hotmail. First, this Recent Development reviews two recent district court decisions that involve employee use of web-based e-mail accounts at work. The Recent Development then argues that given the unsettled state of …

Since the adoption of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) in 1998, the courts have failed to fully define the scope of which copyrighted works are protected by the anticircumvention provisions. Courts have struggled to define this scope because Congress promulgated the DMCA in the context of promoting commerce over the Internet. Congress, however, drafted …

Competing visions of a Medicare prescription drug benefit often differ dramatically in their treatment of low-income groups. The profound implications of this treatment spread far beyond access to medical care, even reaching the process of technological innovation through which new drugs are produced. Low-income subsidies3 under proposed versions of the Medicare prescription drug benefit will …

The Presidential election of 2000 forever will be known as one of the most highly contested elections in United States’ history. After the final tally, a mere 537 votes decided the presidency. One of the key issues at the heart of the election was the high cost of prescription drugs, especially for senior citizens. Both …