Legal Rules Needed For Police To Allow Access To Your Cell Phone Data.

08 Sunday Dec 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Android Phones, Cell Phones, Criminal Law, Evidence, iPhones, Privacy, Subpoenas

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Cell Phones, Crime, John Kelly, New Jersey, Police, Susanne Cervenka, T-Mobile, USA TODAY

Cell Data Dumps: A Legally Fuzzy Area, by John Kelly and Susanne Cervenka, USA TODAY

The rules governing how police obtain and use data from cellphones is a target on the move, as state legislatures act to protect residents’ privacy and real-life criminal cases wend their way through state and federal courts.

EPA Standard for Lead Poisoning Will Not Change In Spite of Evidence That Harm Exists.

07 Saturday Dec 2013

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Federal Law, Personal Injury

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EPA Fails To Revise Key Lead-Poisoning Hazard Standards, by Allison Young, USA TODAY

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‘It’s outrageous we aren’t acting on what we know,’ said Howard Mielke, a soil contamination expert at Tulane University’s medical school. Mielke served on an EPA lead advisory panel that gave input on revising the agency’s house dust standard for lead more than two years ago. He said the soil standard also is too high to protect kids from harm.