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Facebook Refuses Virginia Data Disclosure Demand

Posted on September 15, 2009
Virgina Workers Compensation Commission request denied - score one for privacy protection:Shana Hensley hurt her back while working for Colgan Airlines and began to collect disability benefits. Then, as Declan McCullagh reports, "After about 18 months ...

Worth a Thousand Words...

Posted on September 14, 2009
...even if you can't spell them all:Via Galloping Beaver, where the gentleman above has been given the moniker Teabagger Zero.Via C&L- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Recently Tweeted - September 14, 2009 Edition

Posted on September 14, 2009
It's the Monday morning of the first "full week back" after the end of the summer season.What better way to start it off, I ask, than with this a look back at the headlines we've been watching over the last week or so on our Twitter page?Let us begin right away, then:Google ordered to ID authors of emails to York University - National Post http://bit...

Canadian Competition Bureau Has Eye on Coyotes Puck

Posted on September 12, 2009
As the hockey world awaits the reserved decision of Arizona Bankruptcy Judge Redfield T. Baum on Jim Balsillie's auction bid to buy the Phoenix Coyotes, the Toronto Star reports that the Canadian Competition Bureau may investigate and intervene if the Toronto Maple Leafs veto a subsequent relocation of the NHL franchise to Hamilton:The Canadian Competition Bureau is keeping an eagle eye on Jim Balsillie's fight to buy the Phoenix Coyotes, and is ready to swoop in if the Maple Leafs veto the franchise's move to Hamilton...

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Hume on Harper's Municipal Neglect

Posted on September 12, 2009
The Toronto Star's Christopher Hume, lamenting the federal government's refusal to allocate adequate stimulus spending to finance the desperately-needed infrastructure rehabilitation of Toronto and other major, Canadian urban centers:In fact, according to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the civic infrastructure deficit in this country now stands at a staggering $123 billion...

Law Blogs, Free Speech and Professional Ethics

Posted on September 12, 2009
A New York Times article today canvasses recent professional discipline findings flowing from over-the-top online comments by law bloggers critical of the Courts:?When you become an officer of the court, you lose the full ability to criticize the court,? said Michael Downey, who teaches legal ethics at the Washington University law school...

Jeff Jedras: On "Scary Stephen" and the Secret Harper Tapes

Posted on September 12, 2009
National Post contributor Jeff Jedras on the significance of the secret Harper videotapes:No, what is damning about that tape, what will not be part of the public pitch the Conservatives will be making, is the foreshadowing of what a Conservative government would do with its majority...

Rosh Hashana Begins Friday September 18 - Happy New Year

Posted on September 11, 2009
And what better way to bring in Jewish New Year 5770 than with this little video of a Rabbi and a puppy:- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Harper Unplugged: Liberal Governmemnt Would Do "Long-Term, Real Damage to Canada"

Posted on September 10, 2009
Judging by his inflamed rhetoric at a recent "closed to the media" Conservative Party session in Northern Ontario, it appears our Prime Minister fears that a Liberal government may soon be in the cards: "Do not be fooled for a moment. If we do not get a majority, the Liberals, the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois will combine and they will form a government...

The Cost of Heckling the President

Posted on September 10, 2009
TPM reports that "Rep. Joe Wilson's 2010 opponent has received more than $100,000 in contributions overnight."Congressman Wilson shouted "you lie" at President Obama during last evening's Presidential address to Congress. He apologized to the President immediately thereafter...

Jurors Shouting and Throwing Chairs?

Posted on September 10, 2009
Via ABA Journal, maybe the jurors in this Manhattan courtroom thought they were at a town hall meeting, or something...The Manhattan judge overseeing the first Fosamax federal product liability trial has ordered a cooling off period after one lawyer reported hearing shouting from the jury room and a juror reportedly claimed someone threw a chair at her...

Phoenix Coyotes Bankruptcy Decision: "Monumental Repercussions" for Professional Sports

Posted on September 10, 2009
As Gary Bettman and Jim Balsillie prepare to take the stand on Friday, the experts weigh in on the outcome of this week's auction of the Phoenix Coyotes in an Arizona bankruptcy court:..Yet at the core of the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy auction is whether the NHL controls its own properties and whether its bylaws can legally determine who can and can not own them...

Rep. Joe Wilson: Maybe Not So Sorry, After All

Posted on September 10, 2009
The "you lied" congressman takes to You Tube, speaks again."I will not be muzzled." (Now please give me money...)Via TPM- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Video: Pow-Wow at M'Chigeeng First Nation

Posted on September 08, 2009
On Saturday, at the close of our Manitoulin Island holiday, we visited the 2009 M'Chigeeng First Nation Pow-Wow I couldn't resist the chance to take a bit of Blackberry video, and here it is - a colourful sampling of First Nations dance, song and drumming, along with an inspiring conversation with M'Chigeeng artist, author and Shaman, Ken Ense:In addition to dance and song, a pow-pow also showcases quite a bit of humour...

Summer, Just A Little Bit Longer...

Posted on September 05, 2009
Jim Seals and Dash Crofts with a live version of their 1970's classic, Summer Breeze:- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Quotable

Posted on September 05, 2009
From an Andrew Sullivan reader:Can someone remind me what it is the NIMBY crowd thinks these detainees are going to do once transferred to the U.S.? They act like these guys are half-MacGyver, half-Houdini, and half-Lecter. Do they think they're Transformers or X-Men or something, and that as soon as these mostly low-level terrorists touch U...

Recently Tweeted - September 4, 2009 Edition

Posted on September 04, 2009
As the sun begins a slow descent on our end-of-summer Manitoulin Island getaway, we bring in the holiday weekend from the beautiful Ontario northland with this super-sized sampling of the stories we've followed on Twitter over the last two weeks: Legal Counsel for Michael Bryant Appointed - Canada NewsWire (press release) http://bit...

Orangeville Editorial Calls For Justice Pugsley Elevation

Posted on September 03, 2009
I'm not sure I've previously seen an editorial calling for the elevation of a provincially-appointed Ontario Court Judge to the federal, Superior Court bench.The Orangeville Citizen has done exactly that today, calling upon the Prime Minister to appoint Justice Bruce Pugsley to a higher court:IF PRIME MINISTER STEPHEN HARPER has been keeping up with the news during his Northern exploits, he may be thinking seriously of exerting his influence to have Justice Bruce Pugsley appointed as a judge of the Ontario Superior Court or the Federal Court of Canada...

More "Canadian Health Care Lottery" Nonsense

Posted on September 03, 2009
This time, from David Kopel at Volokh.For more background on the problem of physician shortages in rural communities north and south of the border, see our previous post on this topic: Canada's Medical Care Lottery.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www...

A Blemish on the U.S. Military

Posted on September 02, 2009
Discrimination (via MSNBC):Suffer from a bad case of acne? That could disqualify you from joining the Army National Guard. ...Under pressure from the Pentagon to trim its ranks, the Guard has been quietly phasing in new restrictions that make it harder to enlist...

Ten Years of Blogger

Posted on September 02, 2009
Google celebrated the tenth birthday of Blogger, the miraculous platform that hosts and operates this blog and millions of others, today. - Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Michael Bryant: Did the Police Rush to Judgment?

Posted on September 02, 2009
Given the unusual evidence now emerging regarding the deadly, downtown Toronto altercation between former Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant and bicycle courier, Darcy Allan Sheppard, it is now abundantly fair to question whether the Toronto Police may have jumped the gun in charging Mr...

Grudge Match

Posted on September 01, 2009
Time Magazine's Joe Klein vs. Salon's Glenn Greenwald.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

Toronto to have an Island Airport Tunnel?

Posted on September 01, 2009
According to the Toronto Star the Toronto Port Authority (TPA) has made its first step in moving forward with building a pedestrian tunnel under the lake, to the island airport which is hoped to be completed by March 2011. The TPA just issued a formal request for proposals to conduct an environmental assessment, which is said to be the first step in development...

Conjugal Rights for Pakistani Prisoners

Posted on August 31, 2009
According to a BBC news report, Pakistan's top Islamic court, The Federal Shariat Court, has ruled that prisoners in jails across the country must have greater conjugal rights and visits from spouses.The court is said to have ruled that the lack of facilities in jails across the country that offer the necessary privacy for family visits had led to rising levels of homosexual sex, drug addiction and other immoral activities in national jails...

Legal Outsourcing

Posted on August 27, 2009
Financial Post's Julius Melnitzer writes about the growing trend of outsourcing after Rio Tinto's recent decision to outsource corporate-commercial work to India. "If there were ever an iceberg that was truly just the tip of the iceberg, the recent decision by Rio Tinto Group to hire Indian lawyers to do basic corporate-commercial legal work may well qualify...

Texas Judge Keeps An Eye On Counsel - On Facebook

Posted on August 26, 2009
From Texas Lawyer, via Carole Elefant, the saga of Texas judge and social media aficionado, Susan Criss, continues:Criss recalls that recently a lawyer told her she needed a continuance because of a death in her family. The judge previously had given the lawyer a weeklong continuance, but at a subsequent hearing the lawyer's senior partner, who appeared on her behalf, told Criss his colleague actually needed a month-long postponement, Criss says...

Take My Mother-In-Law - Please!

Posted on August 26, 2009
An angry mother-in-law has had enough of being the punchline in her comedienne daughter-in-law's stand-up routine. She is suing in New Jersey. Law.com has the story:A New Jersey federal judge has been asked to order comedian Sunda Croonquist to shut up already with the Jewish mother-in-law jokes...

Senator Edward Kennedy, 1932 - 2009

Posted on August 26, 2009
Camelot's final curtain, as the last of the Kennedy brothers passes at age 77.- Garry J. Wise, Toronto Visit our Toronto Law Firm website: www.wiselaw.net EMPLOYMENT LAW ? CIVIL LITIGATION ? WILLS AND ESTATES ? FAMILY LAW & DIVORCEORIGINALLY POSTED AT WISE LAW BLOG ? SUBSCRIBE TO WISE LAW BLOG

The U.S. Torture Prosecutions

Posted on August 26, 2009
U.S. Attorney General's Eric Holder announced Monday that he has appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture against some CIA interrogators who questioned detainees captured in the previous administration's "war on terror...

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