Our Blog Has Moved-Update

Dear Fastcase blog readers,

As most of you already know, our blog has moved to our corporate website: www.fastcase.com/blog.

So if you have not already done so, please update your bookmarks and RSS readers. We will be taking down this Blogger page next Monday, April 26, 2010.

Cheers!

The Fastcase Team

Our Blog Has Moved

As we recently announced, we updated and improved our corporate website. One of the improvements we made was to integrate our blog directly into the new corporate website.

Please update your bookmarks and visit us: here: http://www.fastcase.com/blog.

Welcome to our **brand spanking new** corporate website!

Fastcase celebrated its 10th anniversary on December 1, 2009, and so it is only fitting that we begin the next decade with a new and improved corporate website. We hope that visitors will find the new corporate site informative and easy to navigate. Here are some of the improvements that we are most excited about:

Subscribing to Fastcase is now even easier with our streamlined Subscription page.

Learn about the caselaw, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions that we offer on our enhanced Scope of Coverage page.

Bar Association Subscribers can access their bar association’s login portal directly from our Bar Association Subscribers page.

Also: The Fastcase blog is now integrated with our corporate site and you can view our webinar schedule and register for webinars directly from our new Webinars page.

Note to Current Subscribers: The changes to our corporate website will not affect our legal research application (other than the color scheme). Also please note that it can take some time for these changes to propagate through different internet service providers and during that time, you may continue to be directed to our existing corporate site. But this will not affect your access to Fastcase.

Happy MLK Day from Fastcase

We will be closed on Monday January 18, 2010 in observance of Martin Luther King Day.

cc licensed flickr photo shared by BlatantNews.com

Running from the Law, with the Click of a Button

One crafty criminal on the run decided to put a new spin on the traditional investigation. The convicted burglar escaped prison in Suffolk, England, earlier this fall and had remained without a trace until he started updating his Facebook page and taunting the police with posts such as a seasonal photograph showing him holding a cooked turkey and wearing a strand of tinsel while raising his middle finger to the camera -- and a caption reading: “Here's proof. How could I get my hands on a bird like this in jail. ha ha.”

London police began tracking the posts and used them to make valuable connections regarding the location of the fugitive.

While Facebook has been used in the past as evidence in criminal cases and, as we more recently reported, as an alibi, this may be the first time the social networking site has been utilized in a high stakes cat and mouse game.

While the escapee, Craig Lynch was able to keep his whereabouts under wraps for nearly four months, the authorities finally caught up with him last night.

For more on this story, check out the coverage at CNN and Times Online.