USC covers civil forfeiture of property real and personal for various legal infringements. ICE has been taking down sites under 18USC throughout this year, but previously it has been those that have hosted torrents or been found selling knockoff...
It's alleged that Google's conduct breaches 18USC §2511, under which plaintiffs and class members are entitled to $100 a day for each day their data was breached, or $10,000 per violation per plaintiff.
USC's Center For E-Government has dumped a variety of statistics into PriceGrabber's shopping search engine format, letting you comparison shop among the candidates in the fall US presidential, senatorial and governor elections.
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