GHG Offsets: Buyer Beware, written 5 days ago, A recent study by the General Accounting Office found that over 600 businesses have sprung up across the U.S. to sell voluntary carbon offsets. The supply of voluntary offsets has grown from the equivalent of 6.2 million tons of GHGs in 2004 to 10.2 mi...

Thoughts of a law student.

Paterson Confims: Government is Dysfunctional, written 4 days ago, Governor Paterson confirms what the Brennan Center has been saying for years: "If it looks like dysfunctional government and it acts like dysfunctional government, it probably is dysfunctional government."

Thank you., written 1 month ago, Thank you for your interest in Wiggin and Dana. For more information about our Franchise and Distribution Practice Group, visit our website....

Circuit Snippets, written 2 days ago, The U.S. District Court in Middle District Pennsylvania concluded that the private-search doctrine did not authorize law enforcement officers to copy a computer's hard drive and scan all of its contents after a private person found evidence of possible crimes in...

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Accedes to the EPC, written 6 days ago, The European Patent Office (“EPO”) recently announced that on October 28, 2008, the Government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has requested to become part of the European Patent Convention (“EPC”)...

B.C. Government Seeking Input on Adult Guardianship Regulations, written 2 days ago, The British Columbia Minstry of Attorney General is inviting comments on proposed regulations to implement the Adult Guardianship and Planning Statutes Amendment Act, 2007. You can link to the draft regulations, as ...

Writings on international law and policy.

Insurance Credit Scoring on Insurance Journal, written 1 month ago, Insurance Journal began posting the testimony I gave on insurance scoring (5/21/2008) last week here.  The comments posted by viewers are "funny."  Some of the less-informed comments appear to come from insurance agen...

Life in the therapeutic state, written 2 days ago, Heard today in juvenile drug court... "We're here to support you, even if that means we have to lock you up." ... as my long conversion from drug court agnostic to drug court atheist continues. Bonus link goes to Drug Court Justice: Exp...

Full Redacted Indictment of USA v. Nelson and Tapken, written 2 days ago, Ah, the joys of having a PACER account. Here (nelson indictment.pdf) you can download in PDF, all 52 pages of the Redacted Indictment against Dan Nelson and Chris Tapken from the Dan Nelson Auto escapes. It is very dense bu...

PEARLS OF NURSING WISDOM, written 3 days ago, I picked up a copy of Virginia Nurses Today Magazine yesterday. Inside was a great article by a woman named Sandra Olanitori, RN, MS. Ms. Olanitori wrote the following advice to new nursing school graduates: P - pay attention during orienation and after...

"Change" is Coming to the Federal Courts – Obama-style, written 1 week ago, With a Democrat about to enter the White House for the first time in 8 years and with a Democratic-majority firmly in control of Congress, the conservative Federal judiciary is about to come face-to-face with the...

Ask the taxgirl: Common Law Marriage Accepted by IRS?, written 3 days ago, Taxpayer asks: Hello Taxgirl, My girlfriend and I were common law married in 2005. We filed our own taxes for 2006. In 2007, we went to a tax accountant. He says we cannot file as married on our tax return. I say we can s...

Rating Law Schools: The Rankings Game, written 4 weeks ago, “Whenever the U.S. News & World Report rankings come out, people tend to piss and moan,” says Brian Leiter, a professor at the University of Texas Law School in Austin. The solution? Leiter an...

QPR and a tangential effect of the Ecclestone Divorce, written 2 days ago, The news that the wife of the Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone is leaving her husband after 24 years of marriage has understandably dominated the media since Slavica Ecclestone filed for divorce yesterday. Much of the com...

Huh? He did what?, written 3 weeks ago, Last-Minute Will Change By ‘Brockovich’ Lawyer OK’d in Calif. Posted Sep 8, 2008, 02:06 pm CDT By Martha Neil Edward Masry, the crusty plaintiffs lawyer who supervised paralegal Erin Brockovich,...

Doctors' fear of lawsuits tied to added costs of $1.4b - The Boston Globe, written 5 days ago, Doctors' fear of lawsuits tied to added costs of $1.4b - The Boston Globe Posted using ShareThis

Defective houses sold in Vegas according to lawsuit, written 2 days ago, Suit claims that American West Homes sold 290 defective houses which include problems with poorly built roofs, leaking windows, dirt coming through windows and worst of all, “insect intrusions through foundation slabs.”  ...

Southern Ute Tribe Expands Hunting Onto Public Lands, written 3 days ago, Members of the Southern Ute Tribe have long hunted game on the Tribe's reservation land in southwest Colorado. Starting in 2009, Tribal hunters will begin pursuing quarry further afield -- they will hunt on public lands, exerc...