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| | Illinois Bar Journal; June 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Two Illinois cases held that computer-generated data satisfied a statutory requirement that blood alcohol test results be ``in writing.'' People v Rushton, 254 Ill App 3d 156, 167, 626 NE2d 1378, 1388 (2d D 1993); People v Ethridge, 243 Ill App 3d 446, 463, 610 NE2d 1305, 1316 (2d D 1993). |
 | | Although no reported Illinois case has dealt with how electronic data could be ``signed,'' an early Illinois case held that a manual signature by a person is not required and that a person might ``adopt'' a signature made in another mode. |
 | | He is chair of the Illinois Commission on Electronic Commerce and Crime, which developed the Illinois Electronic Commerce Security Act, and is chair-elect of the American Bar Association Section of Science and Technology, and chair of its electronic commerce division. |
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