By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court writer – April 8, 2010 The Supreme Court did not issue any opinions this week, choosing instead to issue orders and refuse to hear a series of appeals. Without any precedent setting landmark decisions, the big news this week revolved instead around a speculative frenzy over the potential [...]

By Delores Amorelli, staff writer of SEOLawFirm.com’s Newsroom Column ‘In Good Practice’ – April 6, 2010 While the question of a teacher’s accountability in regard to student achievement has been asked for years, a recent court case in Georgia is forcing the American public to ask a different question about accountability: How accountable are teachers [...]

By Gode Davis, staff columnist – April 1, 2010 2010 began with an unlikely bang initiated by a U.S. agency. It seemed innocent enough. “It” was a 19-page memorandum issued on January 8th by Donald Neufeld, Associate Director of Service Center Operations for the Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) agency, and “it,” intended to clarify [...]

By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court writer – March 30, 2010 Social issues have a unique ability to draw voters out to the ballot box regardless of whether the controversy at hand has any real effect on the lives of those casting their votes. Same sex marriage is no exception to this trend. The [...]

By Gode Davis, staff columnist – March 25, 2010 The Christian Right and their interpretations of Christianity have become a “given” in American society in recent decades. The current culture of Christianity boasts luminaries such as George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Tim LaHaye, and Joel Osteen among many contemporaries wielding pervasive influence and power. It [...]

By Delores Amorelli, staff writer of SEOLawFirm.com’s Newsroom Column ‘In Good Practice’ – March 23, 2010 Recently, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that parents are allowed to block their children from child pornography charges they face for appearing in photographs found on their classmates’ phones. [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – March 18, 2010 This may be a bit of a tempest in a teapot, but it does raise some interesting questions about privacy and freedom of speech in the Facebook age. Florida student Katherine Evans had her knuckles rapped for creating a Facebook page full of – not-so-nice [...]

By Gode Davis, staff columnist – March 16, 2010 According to the book Cooperstown, [1] which chronicles the exploits of men elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York; including, most notably, those who played what used to be called The National Pastime, Jim Bunning was “the consummate intelligent professional pitcher.” If [...]

By Kerrie Spencer, staff technology writer – March 9, 2010 While it’s nice to have a privacy policy, those who hold contests should really pay attention to just what they’re doing when they release private customer information. You knew this had to happen, didn’t you? Everywhere you look, every site you surf, every doctor, dentist, [...]

By Kristen Friend, staff U.S. Supreme Court writer – March 2, 2010 A challenge to a US anti-terror law raises the issue of whether political speech may be prosecuted as support for a terrorist organization. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, last Tuesday and is currently deliberating [...]