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Leave Granted to Appeal to SCC on K-12 Decision

Pauline Wong is the Assistant Director of IP Osgoode. Leave has been granted to, essentially, the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC) to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada on the K-12 Tariff Case.  The decision on appeal was rendered by the Federal Court of Appeal. 

US Busts Up Botnet Called "Coreflood"

Matt Londale is a JD candidate at Dalhousie University. On April 13, 2011, US authorities seized 29 domain names and 5 computers located in several US states in an attempt to break up a cybercriminal ring believed to have stolen millions of dollars from US residents through the use of malicious software called Coreflood. FBI […]

Tasini Takes on Huffington Post over Compensation for Blog Posts

Ivy Tsui is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. After the Huffington Post was sold to AOL for $315 million in February, former HuffPost blogger Jonathan Tasini filed a lawsuit against AOL/Huffington Post and co-founders, Arianna Huffington and Ken Lerer, for “unjust enrichment and deceptive business practices.”

Super-Injunctions v. Freedom of Speech: An Ongoing Battle in the UK

Leslie Chong is a JD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Lord Neuberger, the Master of the Rolls, recently gave a speech to the Judicial Studies Board Annual Lecture entitled “Open Justice Unbound?” where he addressed current judicial developments in the UK dealing with open justice and freedom of speech, in particular, the rise in […]

Federal Election 2011: Innovation and Canada’s Future

Giuseppina D’Agostino is the Director and Founder of IP Osgoode, and a Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. In the Canadian Federal Election yesterday, Canadians voted for change in Ottawa.  Stephen Harper as Prime Minister and his Conservative Party now have a clear majority in Parliament, giving them a strong mandate to lead and implement […]

ENG4000 Competition Winners!

The annual ENG4000 Competition was held on April 21, 2011. The School of Engineering at York University, under the organizational leadership of by Professor G. Zhu, runs the competition.