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Although it was somewhat of a secondary issue, there was an interesting decision this week from the South Dakota Supreme Court. It held that a person has no privacy interest in their IP address, at least for purposes of the constitutional protection against unreasonable search and seizure. To begin with, an IP address is the [...]            Tim January 11th, 2013 | Tags: Internet, Law, privacy, South Dakota Supreme Court | Category: Law, Technology | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostAn interesting class action lawsuit was filed in Michigan this week. Essentially, it claims the approximately 1,000 students in the Highland Park School District have been denied the right to a basic and adequate education because the school system has failed to ensure that students are reading at grade level as required by state law. [...] Tim July 18th, 2012 | Tags: education, Law, reading, schools | Category: A Reading Life, Law | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostAlthough many consider it little more than a holiday with fireworks, July 4 is meant to celebrate the final approval of the Declaration of Independence and its precepts. One of its key elements is epitomized in the phrase “that all men are created equal.” Granted, there was an inherent contradiction with the existence of slavery [...] Tim July 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Book Reviews, Law, nonfiction, Politics, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostIt’s a question that appears on a number of state applications to obtain a license to practice law. Do you currently have any condition or impairment which, if left untreated, could affect the ability to practice law? While it seems simple, some of the questions it can raise are not. What are the chances someone [...] Tim February 28th, 2012 | Tags: Book Reviews, Law, memoir, mental illness, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | One comment - (Comments are closed) | Print This Post | Email This PostLawsuit To Determine If Dogs Have Souls (via) Top 5 Ice Cream Truck Crimes of 2011 Your choice: The 5 Most Outrageous Lawsuits of 2011 or The 8 craziest lawsuits of 2011 Man Killed By Train Sued After His Flying Body Parts Injured Woman But a headline just doesn’t do this one justice: A Canadian [...] Tim January 6th, 2012 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law | Category: Law | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostHere’s some Christmas cheer for you. “A 44-year-old woman stole her 3-year-old grandson’s Christmas gifts and sold them for crack.” (via) A man is suing a popular blog for defamation for publishing a “satirical” post with the headline: “Jersey City Pedophile Loses His $4 Million Lotto Ticket, Sues the Whole World.” Now why would anyone [...] Tim December 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThis week’s edition of the follies — the first in quite a while — consists entirely of headlines in the interweb tubes this week. Sometimes, that’s all it takes. Convicted Kidnapper Sues His Victims for Breach of Contract German man sues Pope for violating seatbelt laws by standing and waving from popemobile Lawyers Reportedly [...] Tim December 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostFor future reference, there is no First Amendment right to attend illegal cockfights. A hunter in Alaska is suing the National Park Service for threatening to prosecute him if he keeps hunting moose from his hovercraft in a federal preserve. Meanwhile, in nearby British Columbia a man who was abandoned as a teenager is being [...] Tim September 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostA 290-pound stockbroker is suing White Castle because he could not fit in the booths at one of its restaurants in New York. A law firm, of all places, reportedly threatened to fire an employee who was selected as a juror in a lengthy murder trial. Tampa Bay Woman Arrested for Stripping at Club That [...] Tim September 16th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law | Category: Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostHaving spent my fair share of time in them, I can’t say the holdings of law libraries are such that they would encourage a person to do this. A mistrial was declared last week in the sex-trafficking prosecution of a massage parlor owner when an employee who testified for the prosecution recognized the defense lawyer [...] Tim September 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |
      
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