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In a time when many courts are working with advances in technology to provide public access to public court records online, Oklahoma has dealt a major blow to such progress with a new rule cutting off public access to court records currently available online.

Less than a week after U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White lifted an injunction against the whistleblower Web site Wikileaks, the Swiss bank dropped its lawsuit.

Julius Baer and Co. said it reserved the right to pursue its case at a later date in the same court or elsewhere.

The largest online library of U.S. Army manuals and publications will restore public access to its site within the next two weeks, after it was put behind a password-protected firewall Feb. 6.

A major from the U.S. Army said in a Feb. 21 e-mail to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) that service to the Reimer Digital Library will resume to the way it was before Feb. 6 when a system security upgrade was installed.

Last week a federal judge ordered a Web site that posts leaked material to disable itself entirely before coming back to say it only needed to stop posting certain documents related to a case brought by a Cayman Islands bank.

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) filed a Freedom of Information Act request today in an attempt to make public the largest online library of U.S. Army manuals and publications – a Web site that was, until last week, open to anyone.

China eased up on new rules governing online video-sharing services, announcing Wednesday that it would allow existing private operators – along with state-owned entities – to operate Web sites that post audio-visual material.

The Wall Street Journal's law blog reports that U.S. District Court Judge Christopher F. Droney is allowing two Yale law students to subpoena Internet service providers to determine the identities behind 39 online pseudonyms who posted comments about them on AutoAdmit, an online discussion board.