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Blagojevich Appoints Burris to U.S. Senate - now what?

Posted on December 31, 2008
Yesterday Rod Blagojevich (the latest Illinois governor to be arrested) defied the popular conception that nothing happens in politics between Christmas and New Years ? he appointed former Illinois Attorney General Ronald Burris to Barack Obama?s vacant Senate seat...

Recording Industry Abandons Suing Policy for Pirating Songs

Posted on December 31, 2008
The U.S. recording industry has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and will work with Internet service providers to cut abusers' access if they ignore repeated warnings. However, the industry will move ahead with existing cases...

Google's Eric Schmidt on policy priorities for 2009 (Youtube Video)

Posted on December 28, 2008
Eric Schmidt speaks at the Ronald Reagan and International Trade Center on November 18, 2008 in Washington, D.C. about technology, economic growth and open government. Source: Google's Youtube Channel

Lawdable Quotes: Henry Ward Beecher

Posted on December 24, 2008
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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Good Samaritans Beware

Posted on December 23, 2008
The California Supreme Court ruled this week that in some instances it's better to be part of the audience than part of the action. The justices determined in the narrowest margin that people must be more aware of their actions even when they believe it to be an emergency situation...

YouTube Loses Rights to Warner Music

Posted on December 23, 2008
YouTube faces a game-changing loss this week as Warner Music has suspended its collaboration with the Internet giant forgoing further negotiations for the pair?s contract. Warner had become dissatisfied with the compensation it was receiving from YouTube for the licensing rights it granted the site to play music videos along with allowing its users to include their songs in individual postings...

Legal Work Costing Too Much? Give India a Shot

Posted on December 23, 2008
First it hit the customer service and IT departments across the United States and now it?s moving to the legal world as well. The law is being outsourced and it?s headed straight for India. Companies, suffering from the drooping economy just like all Americans, are trying to save, without the skimp, particularly when it comes to legal work...

Massachusetts Scrambles to Implement Question 2

Posted on December 22, 2008
span style="white-space: pre;" /spanAfter a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/05/voters_approve_marijuana_law_change/"Question 2 passed on the Massachusetts ballot/a this November, decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, the administration was already concerned...

China Attacks Internet Bullies

Posted on December 22, 2008
After the earthquake was over, the horrible pollution had already been exposed and the Olympic games came to an end, China had reason to hope that all eyes would be off of them. Unfortunately for them, when it comes to Internet regulation, the world cannot help but notice what the country has been up to lately...

No Evictions in NYC For The Holidays!

Posted on December 22, 2008
div class="MsoNormal"Those tenants struggling to make ends meet can take a deep breath ? the ?Eviction Moratorium? has begun in st1:city w:st="on"st1:place w:st="on"New York City/st1:place/st1:city.span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"nbsp; /spanEach year, around Christmas, the NYC Marshals (who enforce evictions in the city) take a two week vacation, and evictions cease...

Google Steps Up Their Game For iPhone Searches

Posted on December 22, 2008
divdivGoogle has been steadily a href="http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/hello_android/google_spruces_up_search_for_apple_iphone_android.html"improving the way search results are rendered/a on the iPhone. nbsp;Last month,nbsp;Google said it was making changes to speed up processing for search results and changenbsp;the way they are rendered on an iPhone...

Lawdable Quotes: Rene Descartes

Posted on December 21, 2008
A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed. ~ Rene Descartes

United Airlines Accused Of Overserving Husband, Causing Him To Hit Wife

Posted on December 21, 2008
divspan style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 15px;"span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"/span/spanbr / span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 15px;"span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal;"div style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-top: 3px; text-align: left; width: auto;"divspan style="font-family: arial; line-height: 15px;"spanCan you get drunk on a flight and then a href="http://www...

Lawdable Quotes:Heraclitus of Ephesus

Posted on December 20, 2008
div style="text-align: center;"The people should fight for the law as for their city wall./divdiv style="text-align: center;"nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;/divdiv style="text-align: center;"nbsp; nbsp;~nbsp;Heraclitus of Ephesus/div pa href="http://feeds.feedburner...

Land v. Oil, the Lawsuit to Save Utah's Parks

Posted on December 20, 2008
span style="white-space: pre;" /spanEnvironmental groups this week are furthering actions to prohibit the Bush administration from carrying out one of it final initiatives while still in office. a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28283620/"Suit was filed/a on behalf of a number of these groups in the hopes of slowing, and eventually preventing, the a href="http://www...

Toddler's Break-in Creates a False Alarm

Posted on December 19, 2008
span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre" /spanThe a href="http://news.aol.com/article/boy-sneaks-into-store-to-play-with-toys/278110"holiday crime season has begun/a and this year it looks like the kids are picking up on the trend as well...

Veterans Face Difficulties Collecting Benefits

Posted on December 19, 2008
span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre" /spanOn the same day that a a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/veterans.dispute/index.html"federal judge decided he would not intervene/a in the payment of benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs, another group of a href="http://www...

The ABA's Top Ten Tips for Operating Your Law Firm in a Recession

Posted on December 19, 2008
One of the great things that could come out of this recession is the increased efficiency that businesses (including law firms!) must achieve to survive in the market. nbsp; Here comes a summary of the ABA's list followed by a a href="http://www.abajournal...

"I Believe" Plates Not Legal

Posted on December 19, 2008
divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Times New Roman';"div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"Although the General Assembly passed a bill in June allowing the S...

If privacy's what you're looking for, it's time to look into Yahoo

Posted on December 18, 2008
Yahoo further upheld a users right to privacy and upped the ante for competitors Google and Microsoft when it announced this week that it would begin a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28278388/"anonymizing and deleting personal data/a information from its databases after only three months...

NPR Spotlights Legal System in Afghanistan

Posted on December 18, 2008
After the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan in 2003, its justice system needed to be rebuilt from the ground up. nbsp;While most post-war resources were being devoted elsewhere, the legal system improved - but only barely. nbsp;Still, Abdul Saboor Hashimi, the chief judge of the Sangcharak district of Sari Pul province a href="http://www...

"Seclusion Rooms" in Schools Stir Up Controversy

Posted on December 18, 2008
Seclusion rooms are used across the nation, generally for special needs children. On November 2004, Jonathan King hanged himself with a cord a teacher gave him to hold up his pants in a a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/12/17/seclusion.rooms/index.html"seclusion room/abr /br /The investigators were shocked to find out that Jonathan's "time-out" session was spent in a seclusion room that mimics a prison cell...

Facebook: Where You Can Get "Super Poked" And "Super Served"

Posted on December 18, 2008
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No Legal Immunity For Karadzic

Posted on December 18, 2008
span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;"p style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; "UN judges in The Hague, Netherlands, stated on Thursday that an immunity deal a href="http://news...

Issues With Legal Representation For Surviving Mumbai Attacks Suspect

Posted on December 17, 2008
divspan class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"Obtaining /span/spana href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7783818.stm"span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"l/span/span/span/aspan style="line-height: 18px;"a href="http://news...

Proposed NY Budget to Tax iTunes, Beer, Cigars, Yachts, and more

Posted on December 17, 2008
The New York State budget proposed by a href="http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/03/11/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-david-paterson.html"Governor David Paterson/a will add to the tax burden of its residents with 88 fees, 10 fines, and 39 changes to the tax code...

Shoe Throwing can get Complicated...

Posted on December 17, 2008
The infamous shoes thrown at President George W. Bush last week and more importantly their pitcher, Iraqi journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi, are drawing even more attention now that a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7786881.stm"Zaidi faces trial/a in Iraq for his threatening actions...

Tobacco Company's Defense Goes Up In Smoke

Posted on December 16, 2008
In a close 5-4 split, the U.S. Supreme Court�ruled that smokers may use state consumer protection laws to sue cigarette makers for the way they promote "light" and "low tar" brands.�David Frederick, who represented the Maine residents at the high court, argued�that the company knew for decades that smokers of light cigarettes compensate for the lower levels of tar and nicotine by taking longer puffs and compensating in other ways...

Notable Morning Stories ...

Posted on December 15, 2008
Over 90 detained in unauthorized opposition protest in Moscow. ~ RIA Novosti Europe moves toward compromise on copyright for musicians. ~ International Herald Tribune No word on auto bailout "for a while". ~ Reuters Startup banks on making money from free broadband...

Netherlands to Cap High-Income Severance Pay

Posted on December 15, 2008
The Cabinet recently endorsed legislation in the Netherlands which will amend the Dutch Civil Code to put a ceiling severance packages for those making EUR 75,000 or more per year. Because higher income individuals are in a good position to find subsequent employment, the compensation ceiling has been set at one year's salary...

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