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Judge Demands Explanation on White House Emails

Posted on March 19, 2008
Judge John Facciola ruled in a federal court this week that the White house must provide an official argument explaining why the White House should not have to keep a record of all emails for the Executive Office of the President. A previous court order revealed that the White House routinely recycles the tapes used for storing emails, indicating that years of records may now be irretrievable...

Live Audio: Supreme Court Arguments On Right To Bear Arms

Posted on March 18, 2008
For those of you interested in hearing live proceedings of the Supreme Court arguments on the right to bear arms (District of Columbia v. Heller), click on this live audio broadcast brought to you by CNN. (Live as of 1:30 p.m. eastern time). Or check out this live blogging summary of arguments.

Vote Like An Athenian

Posted on March 18, 2008
Congress wannabes, here's your chance! A new site allows you to make your voice heard on every piece legislation brought forth by Congress. E-VotingBooth.com allows you to freely view, comment and vote on the current bills up before Congress. The results of the vote are then sent to every legislator and the President before the final vote...

With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?

Posted on March 18, 2008
On March 17, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an antitrust lawsuit brought by Novell in 2004 against Microsoft may go forward, once again putting the corporation in the glare of antitrust scrutiny. Microsoft had challenged the suit, claiming that the statute of limitations for Novell's complaint had expired...

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Client Interaction and Billable Hours ... The New Law School Curriculum?

Posted on March 17, 2008
Washington and Lee School of Law has announced a sweeping overhaul of their curriculum which will replace all academic classes with experimental learning during students third year . Some of the revisions include teaching students billable hours, client interaction and other non standard courses...

Musicians Demand Their Fair Share

Posted on March 17, 2008
2007 was the year of copyright-infringement lawsuits for the music business. Universal Music, Warner Music, and EMI all settled with popular music sharing websites for huge sums of money. But, says John Brance, a lawyer for several musical groups:"Artist managers and lawyers have been wondering for months when their artists will see money from the copyright settlements and how it will be accounted for...

Legal Ethics v. Moral Obligations

Posted on March 13, 2008
While all lawyers must grapple with the delicate balance between their ethical, professional obligations and their moral values, two lawyers, Dale Coventry and Jamie Kunz, have recently revealed how grave the consequences of this choice can be. The two have recently brought to light information exonerating Alton Logan, a man who has spent the last 26 years in prison for a murder at a Southside Chicago McDonalds that he did not commit...

Free Fastcase Overview Webinars for The Maryland State Bar Association

Posted on March 09, 2008
Fastcase Training Webinars For MSBA Members The Maryland State Bar Association and Fastcase are offering online webinars to help MSBA Members boost their online legal research skills on Fastcase. The webinars are free to attend but your normal long distance charge will apply...

Test for Malingering Creating Controversy in the Courtroom

Posted on March 06, 2008
The Fake Bad Scale, developed by psychologists to weed out so-called malingerers in personal injury suits, has recently earned credibility, and greater popularity in the court room, with an endorsement from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory...

Justice Scalia on the Constitution

Posted on March 06, 2008
Speaking at the University of Central Missouri this week, Justice Antonin Scalia spoke out against what he believes to be an increasingly popular trend of treating the Constitution like a "living" document. Scalia stressed that judges should search for orginial intent in the Constitution and curb their appetites for policy-making...

Spam Conviction Upheld by Virginia Supreme Court

Posted on March 05, 2008
Last week?s Virginia Supreme Court decision (Jaynes v. Commonwealth) to uphold the conviction of Jeremy Jaynes, a North Carolina man arrested for a major spam campaign in 2003, is the first felony conviction for spamming in the United States. Jaynes appealed the decision of the lower court (Fastcase Subscription Required), citing his right to anonymous free speech under the First Amendment and the US Constitution?s section on inter-state commerce (Jaynes committed his crime in North Carolina, but his spam emails disseminated through a server in Virginia)...

Supreme Court Rules In Age Discrimination Case

Posted on February 29, 2008
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Sprint/United Management Co. vs. Mendelsohn, a suit brought by a former Sprint employee alleging that her termination resulted from age discrimination. The justices ruled unanimously to vacate the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision, which had overturned the District Court's decision in favor of Sprint...

EU Fines Microsoft Over Antitrust Violation

Posted on February 27, 2008
While the European Union has fined Microsoft in the past for non-compliance with its competition laws, this fine of 1.4 billion dollars will be the largest yet levied against the corporation by Europe. The fine comes after a 2004 investigation that found Microsoft guilty of unfairly linking its Internet Explorer program to Windows...

Public Library of Law: How to Find a Case

Posted on February 25, 2008
New from the Public Library of Law, a quick and straight-forward tutorial about how to pull up a particular case.Watch and learn!

Armed University

Posted on February 22, 2008
Are armed people safer? Gun advocates often argue that they are -- even in light of recent shootings on college campuses. But we don't need to lecture the state of Utah about this: Utah is the only state where it is legal to carry a concealed weapon on a college campus...

Alcoholic Energy Drinks on the Defensive

Posted on February 21, 2008
While Red Bull and vodkas are growing more popular in bars around the country, attorneys general in several states this week have subpoenaed Miller Brewing Co. and Anheuser-Busch for documents related to the sale of their canned alcoholic energy drinks...

Do Not Call Registry Extended Indefinitely

Posted on February 20, 2008
Good news for those who no longer wish to be called by telemarketers: on Feb. 15, President Bush signed into law H.R. 3541, the "Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007.The law will ensure that, once your number is on the National Do Not Call List, it will remain there in perpetuity...

Supreme Court Won't Hear Warrantless Wiretaps Case

Posted on February 20, 2008
On Feb. 19, the the U.S. Supreme Court without opinion declined to review an appeal submitted by the ACLU over the legality of warrantless wiretaps. The ACLU had appealed a divided decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, holding that, because the ACLU could not show that its calls were tapped, it suffered no injury in fact and therefore did not have standing to sue...

More Than 36,000 Legal Forms - Now On Fastcase!

Posted on February 19, 2008
At Fastcase, we're always listening to your requests for new kinds of information to add to our online library. One of the most popular requests has been for us to add legal forms to the database, such as contracts, wills, and other routine filings. In that spirit, we're happy to announce that, in conjunction with U...

Is the Profession's Image Problem the Result of TV?

Posted on February 19, 2008
Tired of being stereotyped as unscrupulous, lawyers are taking aim at the television industry that portrays them as such. Michael Asimow, a professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Law recently moderated a panel discussion with television writers at an American Bar Association meeting...

Fastcase's Public Library of Law, the Web's Largest Free Law Library, Opens to the Public

Posted on February 13, 2008
The Public Library of Law (www.plol.org) is the world?s largest online database of free law. Our library brings free materials from across the Web together in one place, and adds hundreds of volumes of law that has previously only been available with a subscription...

World's "Greenest" City

Posted on February 12, 2008
The United Arab Emirates has done it again! Despite its history as an oil exporter, the UAE is proceeding to build the world's first zero emissions city. The development, dubbed Masdar, will be located on the outskirts of the capital city, Abu Dhabi...

If saying "bomb" in an airport is suspicious...

Posted on February 08, 2008
...You would certainly think wearing one would be. An MIT student recently walked into Logan International Airport in Boston wearing a device resembling a bomb over her t-shirt, and (shockingly!) she was arrested at gun-point for the stunt. The student's lawyer, Tom Dwyer, is arguing that her right to free-speech has been violated, and that the circuit board she had created did not alarm anyone at MIT's campus when she wore it on campus...

Sharia Law in Great Britain?

Posted on February 07, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury has recently come out in favor of allowing Muslims to settle disputes in courts of Sharia law. The religious leader states that a movement in this direction "seems unavoidable," arguing that providing access to religious courts for members of minority faiths, including Muslims, would relieve tensions between ethnic and religious communities...

For One Lawyer, Groundhog Day Never Ends...

Posted on February 04, 2008
Yes, Punxsatawney Phil did see his shadow last weekend, meaning weeks of bleak and bitter winter to come. However, one man happy to see Phil keep coming back to his shadow is his lawyer, Jeff Lundy. The Wall Street Journal recently conducted an interview with Jeff, who claims that the celebrity groundhog is his "most demanding client...

Network With Other Fastcase Users

Posted on February 01, 2008
Are you on Facebook? If so join the Fastcase Group or Fastcase Fan page! Network with other legal professionals and stay updated with Fastcase news and events. To sign up, click the links below and then sign in with your Facebook Username/Password!Fastcase GroupBecome a Fan of Fastcase!

Pop Quiz - The US Citizenship Test

Posted on January 29, 2008
Many of the questions on the United States Citizenship Test are basics of American history and government, but there are some curveballs that may throw off even the most patriotic aspiring Americans.Think you've got what it takes to be an American citizen? See for yourself! Take the US Citizenship Test.

New Values for New Lawyer Moms

Posted on January 22, 2008
Debra Bruno of the Legal Times has documented a recent shift in the attitudes of younger women towards balancing their legal careers and motherhood. While a prior generation of women blazed the trail raising children without sacrificing billable hours, younger lawyers seem to be moving in a different direction...

Who Owns the Moon?

Posted on January 22, 2008
Companies (including Virgin Galactic) and private investors alike are lining up at the next frontier -- profits in lunar travel and commerce. As discussed in a recent Salon article by Elizabeth Svoboda, space travel and lunar exploration, once the exclusive domain of a few countries, is increasingly within the reach of enterprising companies and individuals...

Law School Enrollment for Minorities on the Decline

Posted on January 18, 2008
According to Columbia Law School, law school enrollment of African Americans and Hispanics has decreased by about 9 percent in the last 15 years. The factors behind this trend are not well understood, but some speculate that declining support for affirmative actionprograms nationwide may be partly to blame...

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