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The lawyer for Michael Campbell, the 18-year-old Florida man who forced a two-day closing of Columbine High last month via an e-mailed bomb threat, is using a novel defense: Internet addiction. Campbell pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, with his lawyer claiming the young man's actions...
"It's precisely because of things like this that we have a jury of a defendant's peers," says TIME legal correspondent Alain Sanders. "While there are merits to creative lawyering - it often produces previously unrealized rights - ours is a system that allows common sense to prevail," he says, noting...
Isn't technology wonderful? If there's one thing the Internet has done for us, it's create a brave new legal frontier. Mix high expectations, intellectual property, untested technologies, about 500 million people and lots and lots of money, and you're going to get some very interesting lawsuits...
Let's leave aside for a moment the five lawsuits (and counting) that have been filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery protesting the purchase of Time Warner (TIME Digital's parent company) by AOL. One company that's famously litigious in the protection of its assets is Apple, and...
Back when the written word was the predominant news medium, people would tell you not to believe everything you read. Then came the harsh realism of TV news, allowing us to witness wars and congressional bickering up close. But with the powers of new media come new dangers; and never...