E-Commerce Law

Doubling the Size of Your Company

On December 2, 2010,  Odin, Feldman & Pittleman, P.C. and Ascend Sales Partners will present their Doubling the Size of Your Company seminar for CEOs.  The seminar will take place from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Mason Inn Conference Center & Hotel in Fairfax, Virginia.  It is open to chief executives who want to discuss the things that they should do now to take advantage of the pending economic recovery.

We intend to keep this special networking and educational event small, so seating is very limited.  Please see this brochure for further details and registration information.

Law Requiring Convicted Sex Offender to Disclose All Internet Identities is Constitutional

On October 26, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, decided a case involving a sex-offender's constitutional challenge of a Utah’s sex offender registry statute.  Doe v. Shurtleff, 2010 WL 4188248 (C.A.10 (Oct. 26, 2010)).  John Doe, a registered sex offender, appealed a decision from the district court enforcing the Utah statute that required all sex offenders living in Utah to register their “internet identifiers” and their corresponding websites with the state.  John Doe was convicted of a sex offense, served a prison sentence, and was released without being placed on probation or supervised release.  Nonetheless, Mr. Doe was required to comply with the states sex offender registry laws, which provided that he register all “internet identifiers” (defined as any electronic mail, chat, instant messenger, social networking, or similar name used for online communication) and “all online identifiers and passwords used to access” websites where he was using an online identifier.