NY Catastrophic Injury Lawyer John Q. Kelly is pleased to announce the launch of his new website for The Kelly Group P.C.
The website can be viewed at http://www.kellygrouppc.com and features notable cases and clients of Mr. Kelly.
About John Q. Kelly
One of the most renowned litigators in the country, Mr. Kelly has a proven track record in complex civil and corporate litigation nationwide.
His clients include some of the most widely publicized victims in recent times, including:
- Estate of Nicole Brown Simpson
- Parents of Natalee Holloway
- Estate of Kathleen Savio, ex-wife of Drew Peterson
- Estate of Heiress Anne Scripps Douglas
- Former Yankee great Joe Pepitone
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Chicago Business Firm Roth Law Named Featured Law Firm
The Roth Law Group has been named a Breaking Legal News Featured Law Firm for its outstanding achievements in Business law and contract law in the Chicago area. Below is a little bit about the firm.
About Roth Law:
Business owners know that it takes hard work and dedication to make it in today's competitive marketplace. And choosing a law firm that understands the needs of small business is essential if you want to get a leg-up on the competition. You expect that your law firm will provide you with practical solutions and attentive individualized service. At the Chicago-based business law firm of the Roth Law Group, that's what you get.
At the Roth Law Group, we understand the concerns of small business owners like you and we have experience working in industries ranging from construction to chemical manufacturing. Our lawyers know that you need to remain focused on business and legal issues often detract from this goal. When the Roth Law Group represents you, we concentrate our efforts on resolving matters efficiently and economically and seek to reach the best business outcome in the least amount of time whenever practical. From contract negotiations to commercial litigation, we offer a full-range of business legal services specifically tailored to meet your needs.
If your small business is in the market for business legal services in Cook County or throughout Illinois, contact the Chicago-based Roth Law Group for a Free Initial Consultation. We offer practical solutions to your small business legal challenges at affordable rates.
A Few Representative Matters
-Obtained six-figure settlement on behalf of an Italian-based Manufacturer of wood veneer products in a breach of contract action against U.S. based distributor.
-Obtained judgment in favor of a Commercial Landscaping Contractor involving breach of contract.
-Negotiated nuisance value settlement on behalf of a Multi-Media Company sued for violation of Non-Compete Agreement, thus avoiding business interruption and an injunction.
-Successfully prosecuted foreclosure and other actions on behalf of a Colorado-based Mortgage Company.
www.rothlawgroup.com
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Google Blurs Faces
After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however.
Although Google's Street View service was not the first to augment online maps with photos, the detail and breadth of images on the site surprised and unsettled many users when it launched last year.
As specially equipped Google vehicles cruised city streets snapping panoramic images of homes and businesses, the resulting photos revealed people falling off bikes, exiting strip joints, crossing the street, sunbathing — everyday, in-public things but nonetheless, things they might not have wanted preserved for posterity.
Some privacy advocates, including the influential Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggested that Google blur the images of people. That move, the critics pointed out, would not inhibit Street View's goal of helping people become familiar with the look and feel of a location before they travel there.
This week, Google revealed it had indeed begun deploying a facial-recognition algorithm that scans photos for mugs to blur. The changes are happening first in scenes in New York, before slowly expanding to the other 40 cities in Street View.
Google spokesman Larry Yu said the company is still tweaking the system. For now it tends to err on the side of blurring too many things — things a computer erroneously interprets as faces — but that is better than leaving too many faces unblurred, Yu said.
Yu said Google was responding not only to privacy complaints in the U.S., but also trying to head off legal or cultural objections that might emerge as Street View expands into other countries.
Rebecca Jeschke, a spokeswoman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, praised Google's decision, but she added that "it's just a shame it didn't happen before the tool launched."
Although Google's Street View service was not the first to augment online maps with photos, the detail and breadth of images on the site surprised and unsettled many users when it launched last year.
As specially equipped Google vehicles cruised city streets snapping panoramic images of homes and businesses, the resulting photos revealed people falling off bikes, exiting strip joints, crossing the street, sunbathing — everyday, in-public things but nonetheless, things they might not have wanted preserved for posterity.
Some privacy advocates, including the influential Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggested that Google blur the images of people. That move, the critics pointed out, would not inhibit Street View's goal of helping people become familiar with the look and feel of a location before they travel there.
This week, Google revealed it had indeed begun deploying a facial-recognition algorithm that scans photos for mugs to blur. The changes are happening first in scenes in New York, before slowly expanding to the other 40 cities in Street View.
Google spokesman Larry Yu said the company is still tweaking the system. For now it tends to err on the side of blurring too many things — things a computer erroneously interprets as faces — but that is better than leaving too many faces unblurred, Yu said.
Yu said Google was responding not only to privacy complaints in the U.S., but also trying to head off legal or cultural objections that might emerge as Street View expands into other countries.
Rebecca Jeschke, a spokeswoman for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, praised Google's decision, but she added that "it's just a shame it didn't happen before the tool launched."
Archdiocese Sues Facebook
A school administrator who charges his identity was stolen is now part of a lawsuit against a popular web site.
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is suing the popular social networking web site Facebook after someone posted a page using the name of the dean of students at Roncalli High School without his knowledge or consent. Tim Puntarelli, dean and assistant football coach at Roncalli, says he became aware of the website last month.
The lawsuit alleges identity deception, stalking and harassment after someone used Puntarelli's name and personal information to not only set up the account, but send e-mails to students in his name. According to court documents, postings included invitations to dozens of students to be Puntarelli's Facebook friends, a message to a student suggesting Puntarelli may take disciplinary action against him and other pictures and messages deemed inappropriate.
"The question is, is this libel and can someone be sued for it?" asked IUPUI law professor Henry Carlson.
He says while the legal issue is not a new one, the context is.
"We used to be able to libel people by a magazine or written newspaper, then we got radio and television, and now we have the Internet," Carlson said. "So the amount of damage that can be done is dramatically increased."
While school administrators asked for the identity of the person who created the false Facebook account, Facebook refused.
"We cannot release the information unless we receive a valid subpoena or court order, there may be situations where we are unable to retrieve the information due to technical limitations," they explained.
The archdiocese filed and was granted an emergency restraining order after Facebook refused to identify the person who created the web page.
"Given the nature of technology today, it would be almost impossible to prevent someone from creating a website like that," Carlson said.
After a request by the school, Facebook eventually removed the web page and a judge ordered the web site to proved any identifying information about the person who created the page.
"The archdiocese hopes to resolve the issue as quickly as possible in order to restore damage done to Mr. Puntarelli's reputation and to prevent this type of identity theft from happening again," the archdiocese said in a statement.
The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is suing the popular social networking web site Facebook after someone posted a page using the name of the dean of students at Roncalli High School without his knowledge or consent. Tim Puntarelli, dean and assistant football coach at Roncalli, says he became aware of the website last month.
The lawsuit alleges identity deception, stalking and harassment after someone used Puntarelli's name and personal information to not only set up the account, but send e-mails to students in his name. According to court documents, postings included invitations to dozens of students to be Puntarelli's Facebook friends, a message to a student suggesting Puntarelli may take disciplinary action against him and other pictures and messages deemed inappropriate.
"The question is, is this libel and can someone be sued for it?" asked IUPUI law professor Henry Carlson.
He says while the legal issue is not a new one, the context is.
"We used to be able to libel people by a magazine or written newspaper, then we got radio and television, and now we have the Internet," Carlson said. "So the amount of damage that can be done is dramatically increased."
While school administrators asked for the identity of the person who created the false Facebook account, Facebook refused.
"We cannot release the information unless we receive a valid subpoena or court order, there may be situations where we are unable to retrieve the information due to technical limitations," they explained.
The archdiocese filed and was granted an emergency restraining order after Facebook refused to identify the person who created the web page.
"Given the nature of technology today, it would be almost impossible to prevent someone from creating a website like that," Carlson said.
After a request by the school, Facebook eventually removed the web page and a judge ordered the web site to proved any identifying information about the person who created the page.
"The archdiocese hopes to resolve the issue as quickly as possible in order to restore damage done to Mr. Puntarelli's reputation and to prevent this type of identity theft from happening again," the archdiocese said in a statement.
Myspace Wins $230M Spam Suit
The popular online hangout MySpace has won a $230 million judgment over junk messages sent to its members in what is believed to be the largest anti-spam award ever.
A federal judge in Los Angeles issued the award when Sanford Wallace and associate Walter Rines failed to show up for a court hearing.
Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s. He left that company, Cyber Promotions, following lawsuits from leading Internet service providers such as Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, only to re-emerge in a spyware case that led to a $4 million federal judgment against him in 2006.
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MySpace sued under the federal anti-spam law that provides $100 in damages for each violation and triples that if the violation is on purpose.
Wallace and Rines were accused of sending more than 730,000 messages to MySpace members as fake friends, recommending "cool" sites that turned out to be money-making schemes selling things like ring tones.
MySpace said the spamming ate up valuable space and angered members.
A federal judge in Los Angeles issued the award when Sanford Wallace and associate Walter Rines failed to show up for a court hearing.
Wallace earned the monikers "Spam King" and "Spamford" as head of a company that sent as many as 30 million junk e-mails a day in the 1990s. He left that company, Cyber Promotions, following lawsuits from leading Internet service providers such as Time Warner Inc.'s AOL, only to re-emerge in a spyware case that led to a $4 million federal judgment against him in 2006.
Click here to find out more!
MySpace sued under the federal anti-spam law that provides $100 in damages for each violation and triples that if the violation is on purpose.
Wallace and Rines were accused of sending more than 730,000 messages to MySpace members as fake friends, recommending "cool" sites that turned out to be money-making schemes selling things like ring tones.
MySpace said the spamming ate up valuable space and angered members.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Craigslist Countersues Ebay for Deception
Craigslist on Tuesday launched a legal counterattack against eBay, which sued Craigslist in Delaware two weeks ago for violating its rights as a minority shareholder.
"We filed a complaint in California today, charging eBay with unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, deceptive passing-off, business interference, false advertising, phishing attacks, free-riding, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and breaches of fiduciary duty," said Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster in a blog post.
Buckmaster said that Craigslist is asking the Superior Court in San Francisco to put a halt to eBay's alleged misconduct, to force eBay to make restitution to Craigslist and return related profits, to restore the Craigslist shares that eBay owns to Craigslist, and to impose punitive damages on eBay.
In 2004, eBay acquired a minority stake in Craigslist from a former shareholder. Since that time, the Craigslist filing alleges, eBay has "engaged in conduct designed to harm Craigslist, its users, and consumers in California and elsewhere."
The Craigslist complaint, for example, claims that eBay placed on Google ads that purported to direct users to Craigslist but instead sent them to Kijiji, a community site owned by eBay that competes with Craigslist.
EBay's supposed motivation for this and other alleged skullduggery cited in the complaint was to gain control of Craigslist. Having failed to achieve that goal, Craigslist claims that eBay wants to promote Kijiji to kill off Craigslist.
"Sadly, we have an uncomfortably conflicted shareholder in our midst, one that is obsessed with dominating online classifieds for the purpose of maximizing its own profits," Buckmaster said in a blog post made following the filing of eBay's lawsuit two weeks ago.
EBay's lawsuit paints a somewhat different picture. In its legal filing, the company accuses Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Buckmaster with planning to dilute eBay's investment in Craigslist and to diminish eBay's voting power as it relates to Craigslist. It also accuses the pair of adopting Poison Pill rules that inhibit eBay's ability to sell its Craigslist shares to anyone other than Newmark, Buckmaster, or their company.
"We filed a complaint in California today, charging eBay with unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, deceptive passing-off, business interference, false advertising, phishing attacks, free-riding, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and breaches of fiduciary duty," said Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster in a blog post.
Buckmaster said that Craigslist is asking the Superior Court in San Francisco to put a halt to eBay's alleged misconduct, to force eBay to make restitution to Craigslist and return related profits, to restore the Craigslist shares that eBay owns to Craigslist, and to impose punitive damages on eBay.
In 2004, eBay acquired a minority stake in Craigslist from a former shareholder. Since that time, the Craigslist filing alleges, eBay has "engaged in conduct designed to harm Craigslist, its users, and consumers in California and elsewhere."
The Craigslist complaint, for example, claims that eBay placed on Google ads that purported to direct users to Craigslist but instead sent them to Kijiji, a community site owned by eBay that competes with Craigslist.
EBay's supposed motivation for this and other alleged skullduggery cited in the complaint was to gain control of Craigslist. Having failed to achieve that goal, Craigslist claims that eBay wants to promote Kijiji to kill off Craigslist.
"Sadly, we have an uncomfortably conflicted shareholder in our midst, one that is obsessed with dominating online classifieds for the purpose of maximizing its own profits," Buckmaster said in a blog post made following the filing of eBay's lawsuit two weeks ago.
EBay's lawsuit paints a somewhat different picture. In its legal filing, the company accuses Craigslist founder Craig Newmark and Buckmaster with planning to dilute eBay's investment in Craigslist and to diminish eBay's voting power as it relates to Craigslist. It also accuses the pair of adopting Poison Pill rules that inhibit eBay's ability to sell its Craigslist shares to anyone other than Newmark, Buckmaster, or their company.
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