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“Money talks,” say Angus and Malcolm Young; SCOTUS listens.
January 22, 2010 by
When they penned “Money Talks,” Angus and Malcolm probably didn’t know how close they were to the First Amendment, but on Wednesday the Supremes agreed: money is speech, and under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Congress cannot pass any law which restrains speech. For a lot of people, Senator John McCain among the exceptions, […]
Orthogonal: or “SCOTUS learns a new word.”
January 19, 2010 by
Orthogonal. As in: Professor Richard Friedman’s direction became orthogonal during his oral arguments before the Supreme Court last week. The newest word to enter the Supreme Court lexicon made its appearance when the before mentioned professor stated: “I think that issue is entirely orthogonal to the issue here.” If you think a sesquipedalian is going […]
The good, the bad, and the fired: something of a weekly round-up of law industry news
January 8, 2010 by
2009 the worst year for layoffs First “the fired:” last year, according to LawShucks, over 12,000 people in the legal services industry were laid off, which includes over four thousand lawyers. This year’s story was largely written by the end of March, when 73% of the year’s total layoffs had happened, as we noted in […]
Too many air fresheners CAN get you in trouble.
January 6, 2010 by
This just in from the Utah Court of Appeals: too many air fresheners is sufficient cause for reasonable suspicion. From fourthamendment.com: Overwhelming number and odd collection of air fresheners is reasonable suspicion. State v. Richards, 2009 UT App 397 (December 31, 2009): ¶1 This appeal presents the issue of whether a police officer had a reasonable, […]
Social media technology meets jury duty
December 22, 2009 by
In a high-profile criminal case in Maryland, lawyers for Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon are appealing the conviction of their client because almost half the jurors, in contravention of the judges orders not to communicate during the trial, “friended” each other on Facebook. In another criminal case, the Maryland court of appeals overturned a first degree […]
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