Tim Wu, who coined the phrase “net neutrality,” says the FCC’s proposal to revoke net neutrality rules ignores history and the law.

Judge gives Paul Manafort's lawyers until Thursday to save his bail agreement.

A group of prominent lawyers representing teachers and students from poor performing schools filed a lawsuit against the state of California on Tuesday, arguing that the state has done nothing about a high number of school children who do not know how to read.

An ongoing case in Israel touches on a decades-old global debate. By Joseph Frankel.

The Honolulu PD is ordering legal cannabis patients to “voluntarily surrender” any guns they own because pot is still considered an illegal drug

The Senate’s looking at YOU, Uber!

Why the US justice system is not fit for purpose. By Clive Stafford Smith.

Does a river have rights? Indeed, according to a new lawsuit. As outlandish as the case seems to many observers, it may be laying the groundwork for something bigger. By Chris Bennett. (Nov. 6, 2017)

The Russia-gate prosecutors have taken the scalp of ex- National Security Adviser (and retired Lt. Gen.) Flynn for lying to the FBI. But this case shows how dangerously far afield this “scandal” has gone, reports Robert Parry.

Expect heavy street protests when the Law and Justice Party announces its backroom deal to control the courts.

His leftward shift may have as much to do with institutional pressures as ideology.

The fight against people cheating in online games is getting ugly. Specifically, Epic Games is suing 14 year-old Caleb Rogers for allegedly modding the game and causing the developer to lose profits from his activity in the free-to-play "Battle Royale" mode for Fortnite. Rogers' mother filed a letter with North Carolina's US District Court saying that Epic "has no capability of proving any form of modification" because her son merely installed cheats he downloaded from Addicted Cheats, versus altering the game's source code himself.

Republicans in Congress just voted to reverse a landmark FCC privacy rule that opens the door for ISPs to sell customer data. Lawmakers provided no credible reason for this being in the interest of Americans, except for vague platitudes about “consumer choice” and “free markets,” as if consumers at the mercy of their local internet monopoly are craving to have their web history quietly sold to marketers and any other third party willing to pay.

The submarine communications cables that carry internet traffic around the world are vulnerable to physical and virtual attacks. A patchwork of international law protects them from intentional damage.

You don't think they built that giant electronic vacuum cleaner in the middle the dessert only be told they can't use it.

Anette Sørenson of Denmark says American parents ‘live in fear’, 20 years after case that shocked people in US and Denmark – for opposite reasons

The F.C.C. has overplayed its legal hand. By Tim Wu.

Bad news for Google Fiber: Nashville utility pole ordinance invalidated by judge. By Jon Brodkin.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and the Federal Communications Commission traded barbs on Wednesday over an investigation into a suspected scheme to manipulate the process through which Americans can weigh in on the FCC's move to repeal net neutrality rules. Schneiderman, in an open letter, said an enormous number of fake comments were sent to the FCC about its move to repeal net neutrality rules. Those behind the scheme may have impersonated hundreds of thousands of real Americans by appropriating their names and addresses to make submissions, he said, in a scam akin to identity theft on a "massive scale."

Lawmakers in both parties say members of Congress shouldn't be allowed to use taxpayer money to settle harassment claims without being named.