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RAIN 6/16 Weekly Update: Legal (11)



Government Technology 6/3/02
Anti-Spam Laws Rarely Enforced
Kathleen Murphy, Stateline.org - Stateline.org - Jun 03, 2002 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. --
Though 25 states have laws regulating unsolicited commercial e-mail, "spam" pushing
love potions and new miracle diets keeps showing up in your inbox.
Why? Because states rarely enforce anti-spam laws. Spammers are hard to locate,
prosecutors have other priorities and getting jurisdiction over spammers, particularly if they are sending their electronic junk mail from outside the United States, is nearly impossible.
http://www.govtech.net/news/news.phtml?docid=2002.06.03-3030000000010431


San Francisco Chronicle 6/9/02
No-shred order in Perot probe
Panel widens look into firm's energy dealings
by Mark Martin
Sacramento -- Widening its probe into whether a Ross Perot company sold inside knowledge of California's energy market to power producers, a legislative
committee has told energy companies not to shred any documents dealing with Perot Systems.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/09/BA8254.DTL&type=tech


New York Times 6/10/02
Private Effort to Fight Digital Theft
By BOB TEDESCHI
EMBERS of a ring suspected of Internet credit card theft received rude surprises last week when they opened U.P.S. packages to look for loot they had ordered online at Laptops4Now.com. Instead of the Sony Vaios and Microsoft Xboxes they had ordered, they received old John Grisham paperbacks and other random items signifying that they had just been caught in a sting.
The twist is that this sting operation was carried out not by law enforcement groups, but by a private antifraud company called CardCops.com, one of a small but growing number of private organizations acting as digital security forces against cyberthieves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/10/technology/10ECOM.html


Wired 6/11/02
Aussie Gets Into Pickle With Spam
By Kim Griggs
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Joey McNicol hates spam. He just never thought he'd be sued for complaining about it.
But in what's being touted as a world first, McNicol is being sued by an alleged spammer after he complained online.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,53102,00.html


CNET News.com 6/11/02
Oracle e-mail talks of cost "problems"
By Dawn Kawamoto
update SACRAMENTO, Calif.--California legislators sifted through hundreds of pages of
documents from Oracle late Tuesday, including e-mail dealing with how to present now
controversial cost-savings estimates.
In response to a request from a legislative audit committee investigating a $95 million no-bid contract, software maker Oracle and its business partner, Logicon, submitted a two-inch stack of documents.
Among the papers were printouts of e-mail in which company employees discuss which government officials to approach about the deal, how to shape strategies for making the sale and how to calculate cost savings.
http://news.com.com/2100-1017-935213.html?tag=cd_mh


Wall Street Journal 6/14/02
Judge Rules for Government On Andersen Jury Instruction
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1024078730829178600,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/14/business/14CND-AUDIT.html


Dallas Morning News 6/15/02
Arthur Andersen LLP to halt auditing public companies
By KATIE FAIRBANK / The Dallas Morning News
Arthur Andersen LLP, the world's fifth-largest accounting firm, will halt auditing public companies by the end of August, the result of a conviction for destroying evidence in a federal investigation of Enron Corp.
A Securities and Exchange Commission rule bars any firm convicted of a felony from auditing publicly traded companies, so the guilty verdict returned by a federal court in Houston on Saturday dealt the final blow for Andersen.
http://www.dallasnews.com/latestnews/stories/061602dnnatandersen.61b22.html

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/topstory2/1455557

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/business/16AUDI.html


Houston Chronicle 6/16/02
Decision by jurors hinged on memo
By MARY FLOOD
The view from the jury box was unique.
Though virtually everyone outside the box was focused on the tons of Enron-related documents that had been destroyed by Arthur Andersen employees, the jurors zeroed in on one memo that was altered, but not destroyed.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/topstory/1456547




Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va