Recent NLRB Social Media Report Raises New Questions
As we have detailed in this blog and elsewhere, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) made social media cases a priority in 2011. As demonstrated in a recent memorandum released...
View ArticleBritish High Court Permits Service Via Facebook: Will U.S. Courts Follow?
By Nick Nelson The Associated Press reports that a High Court Judge in England last week approved the use of Facebook to serve legal documents on a defendant in a commercial dispute. According to the...
View ArticleDiscovering the Cloud – Issues to Consider Before Storing on the Cloud
By: Sean Perryman Cloud computing can provide enormous benefits to some companies, but only if risks and expenses are evaluated in advance. Businesses increasingly rely on cloud computing to store...
View ArticleWhen Liking Cookies Implicates Privacy: Facebook Litigation
A recent New York Times article detailed companies’ obsession with the “intersection of data and human behavior.” The article noted that while consumer information collection has existed for decades,...
View ArticlePinning Down Your Brand: Pinterest Issues of Consideration to Brand Owners
We’ve all heard of it. It’s been in the news. You’ve seen it on Facebook. Charlie Sheen is probably even getting in on it. The latest buzz in social media: Pinterest (#Pinning!). Pinterest...
View ArticleThe New Runaway Jurors: Social Media Addicts
Imagine you are at home one night enjoying your favorite pastimes—checking your Facebook page and Twitter feed. Your significant other intrudes, and tells you that there was a jury summons in the...
View ArticleFraud Allegations Sour Apple’s Promises That Its App Store Is Secure
Apple should be celebrating. Its App Store recently exceeded 2 billion downloads. Over 600,000 apps are now available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Yet, continuing claims of fraud surely...
View ArticleYahoo! v. Facebook: Clicking Through the Blogosphere Bias
Originally posted March 13. Updated March 28, 2012. On March 12th, Yahoo! filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Northern District of California alleging that Facebook infringes ten Yahoo!...
View ArticlePotential Pitfalls of Online Relationships Between Supervisors and their...
Employers grappling with social media issues often ask whether it is advisable to permit employees to friend each other on Facebook, or connect on other social media sites. While it makes sense to...
View ArticleSubpoenaing ISPs For User Identities May Now Be More Difficult–At Least in...
In decisions that could have positive implications for bloggers and other social media users who wish to maintain their anonymity, two judges in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Miami-Dade County,...
View ArticleSocial Media Background Checks
You may recall our post a few weeks ago regarding the dangers in using social media to screen potential applicants for employment. Some states have reacted recently by proposing laws banning an...
View ArticleMore Than Words of Disparagement: Does an Anti-Union Post Have to be Extreme...
In the union context, a significant degree of “vituperative speech” is allowed in the “heat of labor relations.” For example, an owner of 10 Jimmy John’s sandwich shops in the Minneapolis-St Paul area...
View ArticleUnfashionable Firings: Judge Orders Clothing Store to Rehire Employees Who...
Can you fire an employee who post on Facebook: “Hey dudes, it’s totally cool, tomorrow, I’m bringing aCaliforniaworkers rights book to work. My mom works for a law firm that specializes in labor law...
View ArticleA Picture is Now Worth 800 Million Users
Facebook’s acquisition of the popular photo-sharing app Instagram portends exciting new opportunities for brands. As an example of Instagram’s popularity, since December its user numbers nearly...
View ArticleIn re Penthouse Executive Club: Can you Strip Away the Confidentiality of...
If you are a plaintiff in a lawsuit, can you discuss the lawsuit with other plaintiffs on Facebook and keep these communications confidential? What if the communications are between you and someone...
View ArticleCops Can Read Your Text Messages Without a Warrant
This article in Lawyers.com exlores the Washington State privacy act after the Court of Appeals in Washington rejected an argument that the state’s use of his text messages violated the privacy act....
View ArticleRecognition of Haynes and Boone Social Media Practice Group
Thanks to Law360 for recognizing our firm’s Social Media Practice Group in a recent article!
View ArticleHaynes and Boone Prepares One-of-a-Kind Portfolio on Social Media Law,...
A team of Haynes and Boone attorneys led by partner David Bell prepared a comprehensive guide to the corporate legal issues associated with social media that has just been released by Bloomberg BNA....
View ArticleTwitter Publicly Announced it Privately Applied to Go Public
On Thursday, Twitter announced — by tweet, of course — that it has filed to go public. That is, Twitter submitted a S-1 filing to the SEC for a planned IPO. It did so confidentially, as allowed under...
View ArticleBusinesses Beware: Your Next [Unauthorized] Social Networking Scheme Can Cost...
On September 25th, Facebook was awarded millions in damages and granted a permanent injunction against Power Ventures, Inc. and its founder. This order comes five years after the social giant filed a...
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