Volume V

Issue : 14: September 13, 2007

• U.S. Judge Orders Shut Down of Website Selling Tax Evasion Advice
• BC Court Upholds Non competition Privacy and Software Use Restrictions in Franchise Agreement
• US Judge Dismisses Action for Invasion of Privacy in Data Breach Incident
• Standard for Wilful Infringement in Patent Suits Raised
• NBC Strikes Deal with Amazon to Sell TV Shows Online
• Ontario Court Orders Removal of Clients Negative Comments Against his Former Law Firm on YouTube
• Study Finds Facebook Users Willing to Share Personal Information with Complete Strangers
• RIM Wins Preliminary Copyright Fight with Atari
• LOreal Sues eBay Over Counterfeit Sales

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U.S. Judge Orders Shut Down of Website Selling Tax Evasion Advice

A website selling materials on tax-evasion has been shut down by order of a U.S. federal judge. Judge Thomas J. McAvoy ruled that the two organizations responsible for the website, and their founder, could not be protected by the First Amendment because the site urged (and in fact resulted in) criminal conduct. Judge McAvoy also ordered that the contact information and social security numbers of those individuals who received the materials be provided to the government in order to assist the IRS in identifying those who followed the tax-evasion advice.

For additional information, visit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/business/30tax.html?ex=1189828800&en=7875fcfa87456909&ei=5070