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Friday Follies 1.7

Bob Newland, take note: Michigan court says probation order with blanket prohibition against any “defamatory and demeaning communications” is void, even when the the probationer says of the sentencing judge, ” cursed shall be the fruit of thy body. The Lord shall smite thee with consumption and with a fever and with an inflammation and […]

Law’s greatest hits — among legal researchers

We hear about bestseller lists, the Top 40 and all sorts of measures of popularity of various items in our culture. But what about in the world of American law? What kind of top 10 list would there be?

LexisNexis, which provides online legal research services among other things, has arrived at one such list. […]

Friday Follies 1.5

A few more Michael Jackson law-related (at least tangentially) headlines: What will happen to Michael Jackson’s kids? and Michael Jackson: The Mother of All Malpractice Suits? (via) and, of course, Michael Jackson’s Will: The Details, an interview with a lawyer “who does not represent the Jackson family.”

“A York [G.B.] postman has been jailed for […]

Friday Follies 1.4

There go those activist judges again! “The prolonged honking of your car’s horn in front of your neighbor’s house in the wee hours of the morning isn’t a constitutionally protected First Amendment right.” (Via.)

It isn’t enough to want to ban it, a group in Milwaukee not only wants to publicly burn a library book […]

Today’s concept of “the pursuit of happiness”?

One of the most famous phrases in the Declaration of Independence is that our “unalienable” rights include “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In today’s technological age, France’s Constitutional Council may have come up with a new take on the concept.

“The internet is a fundamental human right that cannot be taken away by […]