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YouTube Isn’t Liable for User Uploads of Animal Abuse Videos–Lady Freethinker v. YouTube

Eric Goldman

Same thing with the Lori Drew prosecution from 2009). The underlying legal principles are not complicated: content rules in TOSes are negative behavioral restrictions on authors’ conduct, not marketing or contractual promises to readers that such content will never appear on the site. But not at the expense of Section 230!)

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Federal Trade Commission Finalizes Updates to the Health Breach Notification Rule

Debevoise Data Blog

Adopted in 2009 to protect consumer health information that falls outside the scope of HIPAA, the HBNR requires vendors that collect or have access to identifying health information to alert individuals, the FTC and, in some cases, the media when such information is disclosed without authorization. PHR-identifiable health information).

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Can staking-as-a-service providers be regarded as alternative investment funds?

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5 of Directive 2009/65/EC). (For this reason, for a while there was a risk that the European Parliament would include in the proposed Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation a ban on the use of consensus based on PoW.) Based on the US case law, the term “money” should be understood broadly, and is not limited to cash.) Under Art.

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Marking the Retirement of Jerry Larkin, Who Led the ARDC With Exceptional Foresight, Integrity, and ‘Irish Wit’

Legal Tech Monitor

2d 531 (1988) – finding that a lawyer’s failure to report another lawyer’s conversion of settlement proceeds violated the duty to report specified attorney misconduct; In re Richard A. He was a gentleman when he appeared before the court,” Grogan said. “He Working with him has been for me a true joy,” ARDC Chair Timothy Bertschy said.

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