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Lawyers have long opined that click-wrap agreements are enforceable contractual arrangements. In what appears to be the first judicial pronouncement on this subject, Hotmail Corporation v. Van Money Pie Inc., et al., C98-20064 (N.D. Ca., April 20, 1998), the United States District Court for the Northern District of California has agreed. Martin Samson discusses the case and its implications.

Reprinted with permission from the June 30, 1998 issue of the New York Law Journal. Copyright 1998, NLP IP Company. All rights reserved.

This article discusses the potential liabilities and lawsuits one may face when creating a hyperlink to another's website without the permission of the owner of that site, particularly when the link either bypasses the home page of the linked to site, or captures its content within a frame on the site on which the link is created.

Reprinted with permission from The New York Law Journal, © 1997, all rights reserved.

This article reviews five recent court decisions which address the potential for being subject to personal jurisdiction in a distant forum based on contacts with that forum through the Internet.

Reprinted with permission from The New York Law Journal, © 1996, all rights reserved.

Previously published in The New York Law Journal, January 18, 1996. This article weighs the pros and cons of memorializing events in writing as they occur, and concludes that the benefits of such a practice in any future litigation heavily favor its adoption as company policy.

Reprinted with permission from The New York Law Journal, © 1996, all rights reserved.