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  • Pennsylvania Mother Charged With Changing Daughter’s Grades
    [High school secretary] McNeal, 39, is alleged to have improved her daughter Brittany's grades and reduced those of two classmates to enhance Brittany's standing in the 2008 graduating class.

    McNeal was charged with 29 counts of unlawful use of a computer and 29 counts of tampering with public records. Each count is a third-degree felony punishable by a maximum of seven years in prison and a $15,000 fine, said Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for Corbett's office.
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  • Simple Justice: Atop the Fence
    The root of the problem is that white collar defendants, unlike good, solid criminals, reject the idea that anyone could seriously believe that they have committed a crime, no matter what the evidence may be against them. Without a full recognition of the harsh reality that they are criminal defendants, every bit as much a defendant as the drug dealer or the batterer, they cannot begin to mount a viable defense. They cannot come to grips with the fact that they are now embroiled in that horrendously unfair system that they vigorously supported throughout their careers.
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  • Patent Docs: Uncertain Future for Waxman Follow-on Biologics Bill
    Even more chilling, Congressman Waxman's letter can be interpreted to mean that the Congressman is willing to cut corners and avoid the political process to impose a biosimilars regime. The biosimilars debate is an important one, balancing multiple competing interests and, with any luck, arriving at regulations that will reduce healthcare costs while protecting the incentives to invest that are vital to continued innovation.
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  • The One in Which Sonia Sotomayor Reverses Herself
    This is a tale of two class actions filed in one court, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In the first, Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote the opinion that set a new standard for class certification. In the second, she joined the three-judge panel that expressly disavowed her first decision.
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  • ExportLawBlog » Will The Revolution Be Twitterized?
    But where is the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (”OFAC”) in all of this? The current sanctions seem to prohibit California-based Twitter from providing its services to people in Tehran or anywhere else in Iran. The Twitter service sets up for each user a micro-blogging page that contains each of his or her “tweets.” This goes far beyond the narrow interpretation OFAC has of both the telecommunications exception and the information exception in its Iranian Transactions Regulations.
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  • The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times : New State Secrets Position Coming Soon, Holder Says
    In testimony this morning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder told senators to expect the recommendations within days, perhaps by tomorrow, when the committee is scheduled to consider legislation on the topic. He gave no hints about the direction the department is thinking of taking.
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Links for June 16th

  • ExportLawBlog » Seventh Circuit Reverses Export Conviction In Rifle Scope Case
    The decision can only be characterized as a complete smack-down of the theory, advanced in most recent prosecutions by the DOJ and the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (”DDTC”), the State Department’s export licensing agency, that decisions that a particular defense item falls within a particularl USML category are unreviewable under section 2778(h) of the Arms Export Control Act. The Seventh Circuit’s decision also provides an interesting elucidation of how the “willfulness” requirement for an AECA prosecution and conviction should be construed.
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