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That Emaily Hacky Trialy Stuff Gets Underway

Posted on April 22, 2010
The trial of David Kernell, the 22-year-old computer whiz who managed to hack into the Yahoo! email account of 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, began this week in federal court in Knoxville, Tenn. Palin herself has been subpoenaed, but hasn't yet made an appearance...

Insert 'Switch Hitter' Joke Here

Posted on April 22, 2010
While Major League Baseball worries about the scourge of performance enhancing drugs, there's one league where, if you want to play, you better not be too straight. Three San Francisco men have filed a lawsuit (PDF) in federal court in Seattle, alleging that their team was disqualified from the 2008 North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance World Series because, as bisexuals, they were deemed "not gay" after their opponents lodged a protest that the team was violating the rule limiting each team to two "heterosexual" players...

A Hitler Update

Posted on April 21, 2010
Yes, he's still dead. But, unfortunately, so may be "the meme that will never die." I, embarrassingly, first discovered the Hitler "Downfall" meme a couple of months back when a Seattle DUI Law Firm adapted it as a promotional video. This week, in advance of what would have been Adolf's 121st birthday yesterday, a whole bunch of the "Downfall" videos began being taken down from YouTube, as a result of copyright claims by Constantin Films, the production company behind the real movie...

Behind the Scenes at a Shortstop Factory

Posted on April 21, 2010
Via this post at the Immigration Prof Blog, I came across this interesting article on the website of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs about the alleged role of Major League Baseball in the exploitation of children in the Dominican Republic. The issue has been raised many times before -- what, if any, responsibility does MLB itself, or the individual teams who run the baseball academies, have for the well-being of the vast majority of the kids who don't make it to the majors? The ones who quit school at ages as young as 12 or 13 and put all their eggs in the baseball basket as the only likely path out of poverty for them and their families...

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Mob Reaches 'New Low' With Charges of Peddling Underage Hookers

Posted on April 21, 2010
Yesterday, Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced (with the aid of a user-friendly chart) that 14 members of the once mighty Gambino crime family had been charged with some crimes not traditionally in the mafia bailiwick...

Texas Lawsuit Challenges Required e-Filing via LexisNexis

Posted on April 20, 2010
Via FutureLawyer comes word of this class action (PDF), filed by a plaintiff in a lawsuit in Texas state court who doesn't think the judge in that suit should have been able to order her to file all documents using LexisNexis' File and Serve. As reported yesterday in Texas Lawyer, the court clerk in Montgomery County has been bouncing any filings not made through the service, which tacks on fees, service charges and other costs every time a litigant wants to file something...

Obama Club Shanghai -- Does POTUS Have a Remedy?

Posted on April 20, 2010
Though his approval ratings might no longer be all that and a bag of chips, there's no denying that President Barack Obama's name still carries with it a certain cachet. As such, attempts to cash in on it should come as no surprise. The phenomenon is now going global, with the "Obama Entertainment Club" set to open next week in Shanghai...

Supreme Court Still Apparently Unfamiliar With Texting and Call Waiting

Posted on April 20, 2010
Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard argument in City of Ontario v. Quon. The case is about whether a SWAT team sergeant in Ontario, Calif., had a reasonable expectation of privacy in text messages sent via a department-issued pager, despite a department policy stating pretty clearly that messages could be audited at any time...

Yeah, It's 4-20, We'll Bite

Posted on April 20, 2010
As you may, or may pretend not to, know, today, April 20, is National Weed Day. Or, if you will, Marijuana Freedom Day. Come on, even CNBC is in on it. We won't attempt to catalog all the ways people might be celebrating. But if you live in New York, here are 50...

Rapper Jay-Z and Red Sox Star David Ortiz Square Off Over '40/40 Club' Name

Posted on April 19, 2010
I have long thought that rapper Jay-Z's sports bar, the 40/40 Club, had an inspired name. After all, what more exclusive "club" is there than baseball's 40-40 club, which refers to the four players in all of baseball history (Jose Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Alfonso Soriano) who have accumulated a total of 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season? The New York Daily News reports that, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday, Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz agrees with me and Jay-Z about the name -- so much so, in fact, that he named his new club in the Dominican Republic "Forty-Forty...

How to Deal With a Plunge in Your Law School's 'U.S. News' Ranking

Posted on April 19, 2010
The new law school rankings from U.S. News & World Report are out, and The Conglomerate blog has some step-by-step instructions on the "strict protocol" that must be observed by law professors who are roped into discussing these rankings at springtime cocktail parties, happy hours and receptions: Step 1: State: "Of course the rankings don't mean anything...

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on April 19, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: My 12-year-old son and I want to go pound a couple beers together. Where can we go? Answer: Anywhere in Wisconsin or Texas, but don't forget that you must buy the drinks, not him...

Rethinking Personal 'Branding' for Lawyers

Posted on April 16, 2010
Last week, Above the Law ran this post about a lawyer-turned-life coach who encourages young attorneys to develop a personal brand, including a catchy tag line, before the powers that be at a law firm choose one for them. The reaction in the comments -- to the extent it evolved beyond calling poor Karen Shapiro a chipmunk -- was that the idea didn't hold water...

Man Charged With Assault by Vomit at Baseball Game

Posted on April 16, 2010
This is the kind of story that normally wouldn't require much comment. A man was arrested at a baseball game for allegedly sticking his fingers down his throat to make himself vomit. On an off-duty police captain. And his 11-year-old daughter. The puke attack was apparent retaliation for the guy's friend having been ejected from the stadium for being a jackass...

Further Adventures in Lawyer Advertising: 'That Hellhole You Call a Marriage'

Posted on April 16, 2010
Happy Friday everyone. But maybe you're not having a happy Friday. Maybe you're having marital troubles. Specifically, maybe you and your spouse "hate each other like poison." If that's the case, and you live in Florida, you're in luck. This guy, Steve Miller, of DivorceDeli...

White House Chides CBS News for Column Claiming Kagan Is a Lesbian

Posted on April 16, 2010
By now, you all know that Solicitor General Elena Kagan is said to be on the shortest of short lists to replace Justice Stevens on the Supreme Court. Yesterday, according to the Washington Post, the White House went after CBS news for publishing on its Web site a column by Ben Domenech, in which Domenech speculated that choosing Kagan to fill the seat would please some of President Obama's base, because it would mean the Court would have its "first openly gay justice...

Thursday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on April 15, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm a bus driver, and there is a dying elderly man on my bus! Do I need to keep making all of the regular stops per my supervisor's orders? Answer: Tough question...

Fish Gotta Swim, Birds Gotta Fly: Plaintiffs Lawyers Gotta Do Their Thing, Too

Posted on April 15, 2010
Very, very high on the list of people or groups that you do not want to scorn should probably be the nation's top plaintiffs lawyer group. You see, these people sue corporations for a living, day in and day out. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out what they'd do to a lender they feel has personally done the group wrong...

Hopes of Legal Employment Dashed, Kansas Law Student Declares for NBA Draft

Posted on April 15, 2010
Thousands of law students faced with the legal profession's anemic hiring situation now face difficult decisions: Keep applying for legal jobs? Go work for $22/hour (or less) as a contract lawyer? Start a blawg and join the ranks of the Scambloggers who seek to save future prospective law students from their plight? Sell their law degree on Craigslist? Take the job at Starbucks? Tough and painful decisions, no doubt...

A Video Message to Stressed-Out Lawyers Living on The Pale Blue Dot

Posted on April 15, 2010
Via this post earlier this week on Futurelawyer comes a great video with a message that should resonate with lawyers and everyone else who needs to put their lives in perspective. The video -- a short film by Carl Sagan -- is called "The Pale Blue Dot," and it provides stunning footage of the earth shot from the Voyager spacecraft as it left our solar system...

Guns Confiscated After Hurricane Katrina Still MIA

Posted on April 14, 2010
Of Arms and the Law linked out this morning to this article from Human Events (apparently President Reagan's favorite newspaper) about a New Orleans bar owner who has been trying in vain for a year and a half to get back five guns that were taken from her by U...

Deadly Tiger Attack Not Covered Under Homeowner's Policy

Posted on April 14, 2010
This has all the hallmarks of a "Burning Legal Question," but sorry Bruce, I couldn't wait. The 10th Circuit released an opinion (PDF) Monday affirming a district court's ruling that a homeowner's insurance policy, issued by Safeco Insurance Company of America, did not cover damages assessed in a wrongful death case against the insureds as a result of their 700-lb...

Anonymous Blog Comments and Comment Spam: Open Thread on Best Practices

Posted on April 14, 2010
The New York Times ran an interesting article Monday about how certain news Web sites and blogs have begun moving away from the once-standard practice of allowing anonymous posting of comments on articles. In the story, the Times mentions the recent hubbub surrounding Cleveland judge Shirley Strickland Saffold, whose e-mail address was used to register a commenter named "Lawmiss" on the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Web site...

Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on April 13, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm a high school student at my first job fair. Quick question: Is it normal for police to use their stun gun on 30 students at the job fair if the kids volunteer to see "what it feels like?" Answer: Not normal! (AP, Stunning: Cop Tasers 30 Students at Job Fair) 2) Question: I keep reading legal blogs, but still haven't found guidance on what I'm really concerned with: What do I do if I'm the the person who makes first contact with intelligent extraterrestrials? Answer: Your wait is over...

Tennessee Court and Police Share Motorists' Bizarre Excuses for Speeding

Posted on April 13, 2010
What does it take to get yourself out of a speeding ticket in Murfreesboro, Tenn.? Unlike in San Antonio, where all it apparently takes is a credit card and access to the Web site texasticketfix.com (via Bob Ambrogi's LawSites), you're going to need a darn good excuse...

A Decade Later, Paths of DWI Defendant and Judge Cross Again in Car Crash

Posted on April 13, 2010
It sounds like a storyline from a bad legal novel, but it really happened. The Washington Post reported this weekend that in 1998, police pulled over a man named Rene E. Fernandez after seeing him spin out of control and stop in his station wagon. His blood-alcohol level was measured at 0...

Blawg Review #259

Posted on April 12, 2010
Five years of Blawg Review. What started as a "blog carnival" for everyone interested in law has grown into a community that comes together every week to review recent legal news, opinions and commentary from an increasing number of remarkable law blogs...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on April 09, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm headed to divorce court. My wife attempted to impale me with a samurai sword during an argument (don't worry, my daughter stopped her when the blade was inches away from me)...

Tattoo Law: When Your Tattoo Turns Out Not-so-'Beatiful'

Posted on April 09, 2010
There are blawgs out there on everything from "Law and Magic" to "Mixed Martial Arts Law" so how can there not be a blawg about Tattoo Law? Is there not an ink-loving lawyer out there who will step up here? A post today on the Slaw blog notes that tattoo law jurisprudence continued to build slowly last month when the Small Claims Court of Nova Scotia had occasion to rule in Ullock v...

Sacha Baron Cohen Wins 'Ali G' Lawsuit With Help of Indian Legal Team

Posted on April 09, 2010
The story of the ill-fated lawsuit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen by his ex-girlfriend, who claimed he defamed her in one of his "Da Ali G Show" interviews, was already pretty interesting by itself. No stranger to the legal troubles that go hand-in-hand with his particular style of film-making, Cohen won the lawsuit a year ago (in what the THR, Esq...

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