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Friday Follies 1.9

Layoffs and pay cuts at law firms are one thing but “ratcheting up the cost of my soda by 150% is where I draw the line!”

You’ll be happy to know Korean restaurants (as in restaurants actually in Korea) will no longer be able to reuse food — although there are some exceptions.

Those in […]

Book Review: The Challenge by Jonathan Mahler

Writing a book about a case that works its way to the U.S. Supreme Court poses inherent problems for an author. Perhaps the most difficult is putting the story in terms the average reader can understand while not bungling or giving too short shrift to legal complexities. This is especially so when the author is […]

Friday Follies 1.8

Ireland outlaws blasphemy.

And this ain’t your father’s Russia: the leadership of Russia’s equivalent of the s House of Representatives has “agreed to refer the legislative agenda and the legislative calendar to the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church for confirmation.”

Sorry, ma’am, you were right. You aren’t a prostitute. (Via.)

Lawyer disbarred for […]

Did Elijah Page choose lethal injection too early?

A unanimous South Dakota Supreme Court has vacated the death sentence of Briley Piper on the basis he did not validly waive his right to have a jury determine if he should be sentenced to death. Piper’s case will be sent back for another sentencing proceeding that will allow him an opportunity to have a […]

I like my law real, not televised

In what appears to be becoming an annual pop culture tradition, the cover story of the new ABA Journal is The 25 Greatest Legal TV Shows. In August 2008, the magazine’s cover story was the 25 greatest legal movies.

Perhaps showing my preference for movies over television, I’d seen more of the top 25 movies […]