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What a Robust Blawgosphere Might Have Meant for 'Bush v. Gore'

Posted on December 13, 2010
At her Althouse blog, Ann Althouse observed that yesterday, Dec. 12, marked the 10-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v. Gore. Althouse makes the interesting observation that at the time of the November 2000 election, there were no legal blogs to speak of, and that things would have unfolded "differently if there had been legal bloggers picking through the fast-accumulating wreckage hour by hour...

Jets Cornerback Revis Joins Athletes Seeking Trademarks on Catchphrases

Posted on December 13, 2010
Athletes are increasingly seeking trademark protection for their own personal catchphrases, The New York Times reports. Back in 1989, then-Lakers coach Pat Riley made news when he obtained a trademark on "three-peat," a phrase he coined to describe the Lakers (unsuccessful) effort to win three consecutive championships...

Joint Terrorism Task Force Apprehends Camo-Clad Teen Dancers

Posted on November 24, 2010
This is the kind of news I miss, not living in New York anymore. Last Wednesday, the Lincoln Tunnel was shut down for 45 minutes because of what they like to refer to as "police activity." NBC News (via Lowering the Bar) has the fantastic details on this activity...

QB Storms Off Field, Legal Blogger Responds

Posted on November 24, 2010
Here at Legal Blog Watch, the Rules of Procedure dictate that we can, essentially, write about anything we want. For that, I will undoubtedly be giving thanks tomorrow. Some other legal blogs, however, don't have such forgiving rules it seems. Bloggers who ply their trade on such sites sometimes work extraordinarily hard to tie something they feel like writing about to the "approved" topics...

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ABA Ethics Group Issues Working Paper on Outsourcing

Posted on November 24, 2010
The ABA Journal reported yesterday that the organization's Commission on Ethics 20/20 has released a discussion draft of proposed changes to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, addressing the perennial hot topic of outsourcing. Well, let me be clear...

Social Media Gurus 'Can't Believe They're Still Getting Away With This'

Posted on November 23, 2010
I wrestled for a few minutes over whether to focus this final post of the day on Ken of Popehat's body slam of the Legal Internet Consultant who way-too-aggressively sought to build Ken a legal website; or on Brian Tannebaum's use of an article in the UK's Daily Telegraph to fuel his running assault on the uselessness of social media gurus for lawyers...

Online CLE: Click Your Own Buttons, or Else!

Posted on November 23, 2010
Here is today's ethics challenge. When taking an online Continuing Legal Education course that requires you to respond to prompts every 10 minutes or so to insure that you are actively participating in the course, which of the following is most likely to result in a disciplinary proceeding against you by the state bar? (a) Refusing to respond to the prompts on "general principles" and then submitting the online hours for credit...

What Happens in Canada, Stays in Canada

Posted on November 23, 2010
If you are not into the whole "monogamy" thing, Canada may soon be the place for you. If two cases now going through the court system go the right way wrong way the same way, Canada may soon be a place where both prostitution and polygamy are legal. As I discussed here, in late September a Toronto judge struck down the country's prostitution laws altogether, finding that the laws were endangering sex workers? lives...

Jurors in Conn. Home Invasion Case Offered Counseling

Posted on November 22, 2010
Via Al Nye the Lawyer Guy, I was pointed to an Associated Press article about a Connecticut court offering counseling to jurors who had served in a particularly horrifying home invasion trial. The article describes the nightmares experienced by one of the jurors after hearing testimony -- and seeing photos -- in the trial of two men who tortured and killed a woman and her two daughters after a home invasion...

Desperate, Unhygienic W.Va. Woman Pleads Guilty, Sentenced to 90 Days

Posted on November 22, 2010
In a classic judicial move, I'm going to preface this post with the assumption that readers are familiar with the underlying facts. Because to say that the story of Melissa Lee Williams has gone viral would be a significant understatement. Williams is the woman credited by The Smoking Gun with "utter[ing] a line never previously recorded in a police report...

Lawmakers to Introduce 'Repeal Amendment,' Presumably Add Asterisk to Supremacy Clause

Posted on November 22, 2010
In an effort to force the rewriting of junior high social studies books nationwide, The Daily Caller reported Saturday that Republican Congressmen Eric Cantor and Bob Bishop will be proposing to amend the Constitution to allow state legislatures to repeal any federal laws they don't care for...

More on TSA Screening and 'Opt-Out Day'

Posted on November 22, 2010
As Bruce noted last week, the TSA's new and "improved" -- if you are into strangers groping you -- screening procedures have been getting tons of exposure all over the internets. And, as someone who intends to travel by air over the Thanksgiving holiday, I've been reading a lot of it...

Oregon Woman Learns She Has Been Banned by UPS From Home Deliveries

Posted on November 19, 2010
You already know that I'm a sucker for the stories where a corporation rolls out its ultimate "death penalty" punishment on a customer, such as "you can never come here/buy here/eat here/Facebook here again!" So it should be no surprise that I'm writing about Deborah McCarthy, who was recently advised by UPS that she will never have a package delivered to her house by UPS again...

New Battle Cry in the Foreclosure Wars: 'Show Me the Note!'

Posted on November 19, 2010
A new battle cry has begun to spread among homeowners fighting to keep their homes out of foreclosure: ?Show Me the Note!? CBS San Francisco reports that a key foreclosure document -- the promissory note that borrowers sign in which they promise to pay the mortgage to the lender -- is increasingly difficult for lenders to produce...

Video: Carton and Lipman, Live From the Legal Blog Watch Studio!

Posted on November 19, 2010
For those of you who have ever wanted to go behind the scenes at Legal Blog Watch, check out the video below of me and my LBW co-author, Eric Lipman, in the Legal Blog Watch studio. Links providing details on many of the items we discuss in the video are posted below...

Debating the Clarity of Supreme Court Opinions and the Role of Concurrences

Posted on November 18, 2010
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy last night, Orin Kerr posted a critique of Adam Liptak's critique of recent Supreme Court opinions. Right off the bat, I think it's hard to argue with Kerr's conclusion that, as in all aspects of life, there will always be whiners: No matter what Supreme Court opinions look like, there will always be someone who criticizes them for not being clear enough...

Allred Finagles 4-Figure Settlement for Former Whitman Housekeeper

Posted on November 18, 2010
We last mentioned the infamous Gloria Allred when someone (presumably kidding) decided to offer her for sale on eBay. No doubt the tongue-in-cheek auction listing was spurred by Allred's antics in connection with her representation of Nicky Diaz Santillan, former housekeeper to defeated California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman...

Students: Is Your Law School Like a Game Show?

Posted on November 18, 2010
No, the title of this post is not a reference to the still-raging debate about whether going to law school is or is not the stupidest thing a kid could possibly do if he's looking for, you know, a job upon graduation. It's a little bit more mundane than that...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on November 17, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: So, what was it? Was "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" a "sequel" or a "spinoff?" Answer: We still don't know. The judge ruled yesterday that Michael Douglas' ex-wife filed her lawsuit alleging a right to money from any "spinoffs" of Douglas' movies in the wrong state...

You're Nobody Until You Have a Mock Twitter Account Lampooning You

Posted on November 17, 2010
In the year 2010, you're nobody until somebody sets up a mock Twitter account making fun of you on a daily basis. British Petroleum? Check. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev? Check. As discussed earlier today, it's "all TSA all the time" now on the Internet so it was probably inevitable that we would end up with @TSAgov (via Kashmir Hill)...

Welcome Back to the Blawgosphere, Mark Herrmann!

Posted on November 17, 2010
Welcome back to the blawgosphere, Mark Herrmann! Above the Law announced yesterday that it will be adding a new column geared at in-house counsel called ?Inside Straight.? The column will be written by Mark Herrmann, currently vice president and chief counsel for litigation at Aon...

TSA-Focused Rants Take Over the Entire Blawgosphere and Internet

Posted on November 17, 2010
As far as I can tell, the blawgosphere and the Internet in general are now almost exclusively reserved for complaining about and discussing the new security efforts being rolled out by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). It started with accounts and opinions of the new "back-scatter body imaging device," which allows the TSA to essentially X-ray and see under your clothing...

Lawsuit of the Day: Exploding Escargot

Posted on November 16, 2010
You know, when I was writing this morning's post about the Yellow Pages v. Seattle lawsuit, I was tempted to deem it an official Legal Blog Watch "Lawsuit of the Day." But there was this little voice inside my head saying, "Don't do it! Something better will come along later!" And that something came from no less robust a source than Overlawyered...

Missing Something in Your Life? Adopt a Volume of the 'Federal Reporter'

Posted on November 16, 2010
Adopting a highway, a manatee, or a star is sooo passe. And adopting an actual child? Well, do you really want to be associated with the types of people who do that? I didn't think so. If you want to feel good about yourself, why not adopt a volume or two of the "Federal Reporter"? The National Law Journal is reporting this morning that Public...

New Blog on the Block: Kramer Levin's 'Business Immigration Post'

Posted on November 16, 2010
Legal blogs. We watch 'em. So when one legal blog tells us that another legal blog has been launched, we click over and check it out. That's how, via the Immigration Law Prof blog, we happened upon the Business Immigration Post, maintained by the Immigration Law group at Kramer Levin...

Phone Book Publishers Sue Seattle Over Opt-Out Ordinance

Posted on November 16, 2010
When I first read about the city ordinance passed in Seattle last month, establishing a Yellow Pages opt-out registry for residents and requiring publishers to comply with it, my first thought was, "Brilliant!" Know who disagrees? The Yellow Pages publishers...

New York Appeals Case Will Examine Golfers' Obligation to Yell Out, 'Fore!'

Posted on November 15, 2010
LBW readers already know that in November 2009, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decreed that the "Happy Gilmore" golf shot is a breach of the standard of care required of a golfer playing on a course with other golfers. But the Happy Gilmore ruling is just one in the long string of issues that make up golf jurisprudence...

And the Award for the 'Greatest Contribution to Reducing Assholishness' in the Legal Profession Goes to ...

Posted on November 15, 2010
Today, Victoria Pynchon's Negotiation Law Blog awarded its "Golden Asshole Award" to Carrie Sperling. Before anyone gets too ticked off here, let me quickly clarify that receiving the Golden Asshole Award is supposed to a good thing, as it goes out "once a month to the individual making the greatest contribution to reducing assholishness* in the profession...

'Plain Writing Act of 2010' Seeks Clearer Government Communications

Posted on November 15, 2010
The Legal Writing Prof Blog notes that last month, President Obama signed into law the Plain Writing Act of 2010. The Act's stated purpose is "to improve the effectiveness and accountability of Federal agencies to the public by promoting clear Government communication that the public can understand and use...

2L Calls on Congress to Deal With Impending 'Personal Drone' Menace

Posted on November 12, 2010
Pervy neighbors all across the country might well have University of North Carolina 2L Ashley Dean in their crosshairs today. Yesterday, on the blog of the school's Journal of Law and Technology, Dean warned of the coming plague of drones operated by private citizens, and suggested that lawmakers might want to get out in front of the technology by coming up with some preemptive regulations to protect the privacy of all Americans...

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