Late last month, the law firm Shearman & Sterling delivered a subpoena to Craigslist, Inc. as a plaintiff in a suit against a disgruntled employee in order to determine her name. Apparently Steve Hibbard of their San Francisco office (who recently helped represent Oracle in their case against PeopleSoft while with Bingham McCutchen) is not happy about a nasty email sent to the firm's staff manager, and he wants the emailer to be held accountable -- though the emailer could well have just forwarded something they saw posted on Craigslist's Rants and Raves section. Based on information from our sources, the email may well have taken Steve to task for rude behavior in the workplace. more ›

Oh, if only this had been around for Mark Jen. SFist's nerd crush Annalee Newitz and Kurt Opsahl of the EFF just passed us a press release to highlight their on-line instructional pamphlet "How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)." From the release (because it's late, we're lazy, and we need to go hit six art shows tonight): more ›

Well, we'd reported on kerfuffle between Apple Computer and a few punk bloggers (AKA Apple v. Does) before, but now there have actually been some legal developments in the case. And while it doesn't look good, it's not entirely hopeless yet, either. more ›