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WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a standout performance in the FBI's latest work, Sharpie has landed a huge endorsement deal as the preferred highlighter of America's federal agents. "We couldn't do our job protecting America without the incredible permanent markers made by Sharpie," said FBI Director Christopher Wray. "From helping us black out coverage of Hunter's laptop, to hiding how we acted as a tool for Democrats to investigate fabricated 'Russian collusion' charges - Sharpie has been there every step of the way." Experts now estimate that blacking out words with marker comprises about 87% of what federal agents do. In...

To say lawyers and technology mix like oil and water might be an overstatement. Still, from time to time we come across a tale in which a smallish technological problem leads to big headaches for lawyers. It always makes is wonder if life in the law weren’t a little less thorny back before the days of email and electronic discovery, back-up tapes and terabytes of data....one could download several documents through PACER’s federal court filing system, copy the black bars that cover the text on the screen and paste them into a Word document. And, like magic, there would appear...

An Assembly committee voted Wednesday to allow judges to edit personal and financial information out of divorce records if a spouse requests the information be kept private. The Appropriations Committee endorsed a bill that supporters framed as critical to privacy and identity theft prevention, but opponents warned would lock the public out of court proceedings. A 12-3 vote sent the measure to the full Assembly. "In every case, whether you are rich or poor, everything down to the balance in your checking account is available to the public," said Sen. Kevin Murray, D-Culver City, the bill's author. "I just don't...