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Dingy Gray Sox: Chicago Scouts Charged With Taking Kickbacks From Latin Players

Posted on November 12, 2010
It's not exactly a "Say it ain't so" moment, but if you have a flair for the dramatic, you might call it a scandal. As reported by Courthouse News, the director of the farm system and two scouts for the Chicago White Sox have been indicted for lying to team management about the amounts some Latin American players, or the teams with which players were affiliated, were demanding to sign with the Sox...

Have Plans Tomorrow? If Not, How About the Bernie Madoff Auction?

Posted on November 12, 2010
So, New York readers, what are you doing tomorrow morning? Sure, you could swing by the Union Square Greenmarket and pick up some fresh ingredients for a delicious dinner, as I did on many a Saturday morning during my days in the NYC. Or you could go for a run along the Hudson River -- the weather should be perfect, brisk fall morning-style...

Amazon Pulls 'Pedophile's Guide' After First Defending Sale on Free Speech Grounds

Posted on November 12, 2010
Everybody -- even multi-billion dollar corporations -- reserves the right to change their mind. According to CNN, Amazon.com has, as of last night, ceased selling "The Pedophile's Guide to Love & Pleasure," a self-published e-book that had been available on the site since Oct...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on November 11, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm a new father! The baby was born a few minutes ago. Where is the smoking area, I need to light up a marijuana joint and celebrate! Answer: The smoking area is down the hall, then turn -- wait, what!? Dude, you may not light up a joint in a hospital, smoking area or no smoking area, baby or no baby...

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FDA Taking 'Scared Straight' Approach on New Cigarette Warning Labels

Posted on November 11, 2010
After so many years of seeing cigarette boxes with warning labels ("SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Quitting Smoking Now Greatly Reduces Serious ... zzzzzzzzzzzz"), smokers have likely tuned those warnings out completely. Yesterday, the FDA announced its plan to take these warnings to the next, more-alarming level, with 36 new proposed warnings that include graphic images of corpses, cancer victims and suffering children...

Is the Overly-Snarky Judge in Your Case Secretly Making an Audition Tape, Part II

Posted on November 11, 2010
As you may recall from this post last month, San Diego Superior Court Judge DeAnn Salcido's (pictured) plan to become the next "Judge Judy" hit a bump in the road when she admitted to the California Commission on Judicial Performance that she had secretly filmed the proceedings in her courtroom on at least two occasions...

Porn Industry May Play the 'Shame Card' in Litigation, Part II

Posted on November 11, 2010
As I wrote here less than two weeks ago, following a secret meeting in Tucson last month, the porn industry appeared to be on the verge of unleashing a litigation storm against piracy that would make use of an unusual weapon: the "Shame Card." As one industry executive stated last month, "It seems like it will be quite embarrassing for whichever user ends up in a lawsuit about using a popular shemale title...

Joe Miller Doesn't Like the Way Alaska Wants to Count Write-In Ballots

Posted on November 10, 2010
Here's a shocker: According to Rick Hasen's Election Law blog, Joe Miller, Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Alaska, filed suit yesterday against the state's Division of Elections, complaining about the proposed process for counting write-in votes...

Nicaraguan Army Relies On Google Maps to Its Detriment

Posted on November 10, 2010
Technology is a wonderful thing. Except when it's not. This morning, Lowering the Bar reminds us of the lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed Google Maps made her walk into traffic. And now brings us the news that unthinking pedestrians aren't the only ones putting blind faith in Google's map service -- apparently, so are Central American military commanders...

Profile of a Whistle-Blower: Former FAA Lawyer David Pardo

Posted on November 10, 2010
Seeing as how the busy holiday travel season is upon us, you might be interested in reading the profile of pilot and former Federal Aviation Administration attorney David Pardo, posted yesterday on the Lawyers and Settlements blog. Pardo's whistle-blowing was related to the FAA's interpretation of fatigue rules for mechanics and dispatchers...

Convicted Cyberstalker Granted Resentencing by 9th Circuit

Posted on November 10, 2010
"Cyberstalking" has always seemed like a sort of amorphous, subjective concept to me. Nevertheless, there's a federal statute making it a crime. And the California Appellate Report blog reports today on a case which leads me to believe that one man from Montana made it his mission to show me what cyberstalking is all about...

In Which I Discover 7 Years Late That All of These Buttons Are Fake

Posted on November 09, 2010
I hereby assert special jurisdiction over the subject matter below under rule 3 of the Rules of LBW Procedure. And I'm not happy about it. I don't know what I was doing back in January 2003 and February 2004, but apparently it did not include religiously reading the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times...

Texas Cheerleader Fights for Right Not to Cheer for Her Alleged Assailant

Posted on November 09, 2010
In Texas, an interesting legal dispute continues to play out over a cheerleader who refused to cheer for a basketball player on her school's team who she alleges raped her. When the player went to the foul line to shoot free throws, the rest of the cheerleaders performed a cheer that included his name...

Lamebook Fights for Its Right to Make Fun of Facebook

Posted on November 09, 2010
First, I'm happy to report that there is such a thing as "Lamebook," a parody website that "highlights the funny, absurd, and often ?lame? content that gets posted on the Facebook website.? My quick review of the Lamebook site confirms that there is plenty of absurd Facebook material being captured...

Today at the (Canadian) Supreme Court: 'Advance' Sexual Consent

Posted on November 08, 2010
I have no idea what's going on down in D.C. today. There are plenty of other sites you can read if you're really interested in that. But I did happen to notice what's on the agenda for the esteemed justices (or lords, or whatever they're called; all I know is they still dress funny in court up there, and apparently have an elf problem) of the Supreme Court of Canada...

Inapt Metaphor of the Day: Litigation as Funnel

Posted on November 08, 2010
Up front, let me say that I've spent way too much time thinking about this for a Monday morning. But here goes. Joeph C. Markowitz, an attorney out in La-La land (that's a disparaging reference to the city of Los Angeles, not Mr. Markowitz himself), maintains a blog dedicated to mediation...

Alan Dershowitz Opens His Home/'Art' Gallery to 'The Harvard Crimson'

Posted on November 08, 2010
When Slate interviewed Alan Dershowitz for its series on the concept of "wrongness," we encouraged you to read the interview. Because love him or hate him, you can't deny that Dershowitz generally makes for interesting copy. The Harvard Crimson (via Volokh Conspiracy) thought so too -- thus, Dershowitz's appearance in "FM Cribs...

Foreclosure Defense Goes Meta: Taking Out a Mortgage to Pay Your Lawyer

Posted on November 08, 2010
I'm not sure exactly where this falls on the list of bad ideas, but I think it would make the Sunday morning Top 40 countdown. The Consumer Law & Policy Blog puts the question succinctly: Would You Take Out A Mortgage To Pay The Lawyer Who Got You Out of Foreclosure? You are in foreclosure...

NLRB Files Complaint Against Company That Fired Employee Over Facebook Post

Posted on November 05, 2010
An interesting complaint has been filed by the National Labor Relations Board against an ambulance company that fired an employee for complaining about her boss on Facebook. The company, American Medical Response, has a policy prohibiting employees "from making disparaging, discriminatory or defamatory comments" about the company, superiors, co-workers or competitors, the Hartford Courant reports...

High Court's Video Game Case Provides Unintentional Comedy

Posted on November 05, 2010
U.S. Supreme Court arguments over video games are unusual, but on Tuesday of this week, the Court heard oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Assn. In the Schwarzenegger case (good name for a case!), the Court will determine whether regulation of violent video games infringes upon free speech...

Canadian SunChips Scoreboard: Mother Earth 1, Noisy Bags Haters 0

Posted on November 05, 2010
The members of my family are fans of SunChips, and we were interested observers when SunChip-maker Frito-Lay switched to a new, 100 percent biodegradable bag for the product. But wow, that bag was noisy. How noisy? Noisy enough that every time we opened the bag my wife and I laughed out loud at how noisy it was...

Storytime With a Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on November 04, 2010
The practice of criminal law is, on average, more interesting than most civil work. So when I'm cruising around the legal blogosphere, fulfilling my LBW duties, I am often drawn to the musings of fellow bloggers who live and work in the criminal law world...

Lawsuit (Against Apple) of the Day: 'iBrick' OS Upgrade

Posted on November 04, 2010
Well, the people at Ars Technica say that "we all" saw this coming a mile away. I don't know that I'm one of "we all," since I just joined the iPhone cult a couple of months ago, but I guess I'm not surprised. Somebody filed a putative class action against Apple in a California state court, claiming that the company maliciously released an operating system upgrade for its 3G and 3GS iPhones knowing the new release would jack those phones up something fierce...

You Wanna Be a Cop AND a Lawyer? Not in New Jersey!

Posted on November 04, 2010
When I was 8 or so, I wanted to be a cop. I actually said as much in an interview with a local TV station, after unwittingly perpetuating the Jewish mother stereotype by noting that my mom would have preferred that I grow up to be "a docta or a lawya...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on November 03, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm totally stoked. Next week is the vote on Prop. 19. Marijuana is going to be legal! What kind of ID do I need to vote? Answer: Sorry, Spicoli, you missed the whole election -- that vote was yesterday! Your side lost...

12,000 Miles and a Court Case Later, Maryland Woman Still Banned from Facebook

Posted on November 03, 2010
As I wrote here, I admittedly have a weakness for stories where a corporation rolls out its ultimate "death penalty" punishment on a customer: "You can never come here [buy here] [eat here] again!!" So you can imagine my keen interest in the story of Karen Young, who was banned by Facebook from, um, Facebooking, and did not take kindly to that ban...

QualitySolicitors Brings Common Branding, Promise of '5-Star Service' Across U.K. Law Firm Branches

Posted on November 03, 2010
Via the Slaw blog I learned of a very interesting business model for lawyers that is emerging in the U.K. A marketing alliance called QualitySolicitors has begun to brand law firms in different areas of the country with common logos and advertising, purporting to identify the ?best? small to medium-sized law firms in each area...

Obligatory Election Day Scandal Story

Posted on November 02, 2010
Yes, it's Election Day. I alluded to it in my earlier, largely off-topic, post about New York's 311 data. But I can't end the day without talking explicitly about some aspect of the whole "participatory democracy" thing. The WSJ Law Blog had a good roundup of election issues this morning, and Above the Law has all you want to know about recounts and how lawyers may profit from them...

Tech Lawyers Debate Legality of Firesheep Application

Posted on November 02, 2010
The danger inherent in "over-sharing" has been a favorite topic of ours here at Legal Blog Watch. Yesterday, FutureLawyer ratcheted the issue, and the potential for panic, up a notch. Last week, some wacky programmer released an add-on for the Firefox browser, which he cleverly named "Firesheep...

New York's 311 Data Provides Window Into Complaints and Questions

Posted on November 02, 2010
In all my years living in New York, I utilized the City's all-purpose, non-emergency 311 system only once. Don't ask. But I've always been a little fascinated by the concept. Seriously, anything I need, I can call you and you'll actually provide me with useful information/assistance or connect me to someone who can? I've wondered how many people bothered by the nuisances inherent in city life actually understand the distinction between a 911-worthy emergency and something that can be handled by 311...

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