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Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

This two-part article examines several different contexts where changing technology is affecting the workplace and presenting new, and sometimes unique, challenges to Human Resources professionals.

Web Arbitration Clause Before Purchase Does Not Cancel Unconscionability
Web Host Gets CDA Immunity for Alleged Defamatory Site Content
Game 'Cheat' Software Circumventing Security Does Not Violate DMCA
Late Option Exercise Under License Not Excused on Equitable Grounds
Print-on-Demand Publisher Not Liable for Alleged Defamatory Book

The federal government's estimated third-quarter bricks-and-mortar retail and e-commerce retail spending are in. And there's good news and there's bad news.

In the last few months, two major retailers ' Target and Apple ' have entered into settlements with the National Federation of the Blind ("NFB") over allegations that the retailers' Web sites violated the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") because they were not accessible to the blind.

Anyone trying to keep an e-commerce site afloat didn't ' and still doesn't ' need to read the newspaper to realize the business downturn: the grim news appears every day in the cash till, in the aging-of-receivables report, and in overdue payables. While the down times are as inevitable a part of a business cycle as the booming times, that realization doesn't satisfy the bank, the critical vendor at the door or the payroll processor that must be paid.

Who's doing what; who's moving where.

The latest news from the franchising world.