Another Legislative Prayer Controversy..., written 3 days ago, Recent news -- a 70-year old man was arrested Monday night for interrupting a City Council meeting by praying loudly over the Council's moment of silence (HT: Religion Clause). It's unclear from the story, but the man seems to have been ...

"Provisional ballots could alter tight Ohio race", written 2 days ago, AP offers this report, which begins: "Provisional ballots must be counted in a tight congressional race in central Ohio, one of the last undecided contests in the nation, a federal judge ruled Thursday. The decisio...

October 2008 Quick Links, Part 3, written 3 days ago, By Eric Goldman Pornography * Can you believe this? A 15 year old girl took nude photos of herself using...

TSA Security Theater Proven Useless, TSA Declares Victory Anyhow, written 2 days ago, This just in from the “tell me something I didn’t already know” department. It turns out that the TSA’s program to screen people who seem nervous (according to their Behavior Detection Officers) is useles...

Thursday Shorts, written 3 days ago, Federal Circuit Updates Internal Operating Procedures - After providing proposed changes to the public on Internal Operating Procedures (IOPs), the court recently voted to approve the changes. In addition to general changes to update the IOPs, the Federal Circuit...

Blog of the Institute for Law and Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School. News, analysis, research and policy ideas.

J. Craig Williams, attorney, reviews current news and legal issues giving his analysis, observations, legal opinions, and how this relates to court decisions or trends.

ABA Journal Survery on impact of recession, written 5 days ago, ABA Journal, with readership that runs into hundreds of thousands from the legal fraternity in the US and abroad is conducting a survey aboutthe impact of recession on the Legal profession. Here is the link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/...

Jonathan Handel: Product Review: Dymo DiscPainter (CD/DVD Printer), written 2 days ago, If you're a photographer, videographer, filmmaker or actor, you may burn a lot of CDs or DVDs on your computer. After all, there's something nice about giving clients and prospects a tangible disc, rather than s...

Deals Closing, But..., written 3 weeks ago, As mentioned a few weeks ago, things are picking up. Deals that were languishing or almost dying have come back to life and are actually getting closed. We are completing several reverse mergers in my office this week, complete with contemporaneous financi...

News Scan, written 3 days ago, No Death Penalty For Triple Murders: A story from the KX Net reports that a a convicted drug dealer, charged with murdering three women at a Florence hair salon in Montana, is not eligible for the death penalty. In an order signed Monday, U.S. District Judge Donald Mo...

Collaborative Class Uses Teacher-Created Digital Videos, written 2 weeks ago, In order to make an interactive experience for their students, the faculty in the clinic created 3 digital videos, divided the class into groups and assigned each group a different video. The videos were created using a we...

Barack Obama is male, taken, and CC licensed, written 2 weeks ago, While John McCain recently complained about Google's application of the DMCA, Barack Obama has been quietly employing a Creative Commons license for his Flickr photostream.

Waldrip v. Hall, No. 07-55512 (11-18-08). The petitioner's petition was..., written 2 days ago, Waldrip v. Hall, No. 07-55512 (11-18-08). The petitioner's petition was denied in state court. Eight months lapsed before he subsequently filed in a higher state court, which denied his petition without ...

Histories of Misunderstanding, written 2 days ago,

Odds & Ends, written 6 days ago, The shameless Wendy Murphy is back, this time spouting off in a Boston Globe letter to the editor. Conducting an investigation and presenting physical or DNA or witness evidence in court? Not a requirement, it seems, to Murphy: “There's nothing inherently diffi...

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Breaking: Attorney General Mukasey Collapses at Federalist Society Dinner, written 2 days ago, ATL correspondent Laurie Lin, on the scene at the annual dinner of the Federalist Society, reports that Attorney General Michael Mukasey "literally collapsed mid-sentence at the podium," while de...

Discussions devoted to aviation law, safety, and security.

New RICO class action claims asserted against RIAA in St. Louis in Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh, written 2 days ago, In Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh, a St. Louis, Missouri, case in which the Court dismissed defendant's counterclaims in August, new, more detailed, amended class action counterclaims...