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By Lisa Stone

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Last Entry: March 31, 2011 at 17:07:51

Monday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on March 08, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I work for the city. My co-worker's perfume really bothers my allergies. I've asked my supervisor to help me with this, but nobody's done anything...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on March 05, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm an adult male, and recently I've been thinking about getting circumcised. I saw an ad on Craigslist by some dude who says he can do it for me out of a mini-operating room in his home...

Keep Your Satirical Giraffe Stories Out of Louisiana, or Else

Posted on March 05, 2010
Hammond Action News is a blog that puts out satirical posts lampooning and commenting on the state of affairs in Louisiana. Think The Onion with a local flavor. HAN does not pretend to be a real news source. Its posts are blatantly satirical and the site even includes a disclaimer that reads, simply, "The content of Hammond Action News is purely satirical and for entertainment purposes only...

How Close Are We to Introducing 'Digital Court?'

Posted on March 05, 2010
Lawyer: Bye, honey, I'm off to court. Spouse: Umm, you're wearing a jacket and tie, but only boxer shorts and no pants or shoes. Lawyer: True, but no worries. I'm going to Digital Court today! Lawyerist.com had a great post yesterday on the trend toward "digital lawyering" and the possibility that some day "digital court" will be a reality...

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L.A. Cracks Down Hard on Use of Office Buildings as Billboards

Posted on March 05, 2010
For those of you who want to use the facades of buildings as giant, but illegal, billboards for your product or service, the price just went way up. The Los Angeles Times reports that in L.A., at least, the war against so-called "supergraphics" escalated last week when the city threw businessman Kayvan Setareh in jail for posting an eight-story movie advertisement on an office building at one of Hollywood's busiest intersections...

USC Law Pushes Back Tax LLM Program

Posted on March 04, 2010
Bad news for all of you who just didn't get enough of 1031 exchanges in your Intro to Federal Tax classes. Apparently, USC's Gould School of Law has decided to delay the start of its LLM program in taxation, which it had just announced in September. The program was slated to start this fall, and had been accepting applications since October...

Civil Rights Have Never Been More in Fashion

Posted on March 04, 2010
What does the above look like to you? My first thought was that somebody had pried the VIN plate off the dash of a car and bent it for use as a shiv. I was wrong. It's actually a silver two-finger ring from the Ken & Dana Design "Rights" collection. It bears the citation to Brown v...

In Search of Wise Latina Arbitrators

Posted on March 04, 2010
Victoria Pynchon, California arbitrator and prolific blogger at Settle It Now, last week raised the issue of gender diversity among "neutrals" in the Alternative Dispute Resolution world. It is a long, thoughtful, well-supported post, delving fairly deeply into the factors leading to the relative paucity of female arbitrators and mediators outside the "Pink Ghetto," which is not a lesbian bar, but, in the context of the ADR world, a term used to refer to the kinds of cases that are commonly thought to require more emotion than reason -- family law, employment law and trusts and estates...

Dissenting Fed Circuit Judge Says Nothing Obvious About Shredded Jerseys on Baseball Cards

Posted on March 04, 2010
Back in my youth, I was a big baseball card collector. In fact, somewhere in my grandmother's basement in Queens, among the hundreds of bottles of expired salad dressing, there are still many boxes of little cardboard photos of overpaid athletes that I was foolish enough to believe might one day fund my kids' college education...

The Worst Is Over, Unless You're a Partner Who Wants to Keep Your Beach House

Posted on March 03, 2010
The annual "State of the Legal Marketplace" report, officially known as the 2010 Client Advisory, was released today by Hildebrandt Baker Robbins and the Citi Private Bank Law Firm Group. The report is available online in its entirety (PDF), and here are some highlights: 2009 was "the worst year for the legal market in at least the past half century" the NLJ 250 laid off 5,259 lawyers in 2009 there were 57 law firm mergers and 18 dissolutions last year; and cost-cutting will remain paramount in 2010, and one of the primary methods for achieving cost savings will be to boot some partners Yeah, you read that last one right...

No Such Thing as a Free Breakfast Either

Posted on March 03, 2010
At least not at a Camarillo, Cal. hardware store. Via the folks at Overlawyered, we get heartbreaking news for every Homer Simpson wannabe in Ventura County: The health department is standing by its decision to order a local hardware store to cease and desist serving free coffee and donuts to its customers...

Is Changing Venue Because of Pretrial Publicity a Dated Concept?

Posted on March 01, 2010
Lest you think we here at Legal Blog Watch were not aware that today is Skilling Day at the Supreme Court, here's part of the story that makes for a layperson-friendly discussion over a round of Siberian Donkeys (it's a drink, I swear). If you're looking for an in-depth description of the vagueness issue as regards the honest services fraud statute, read Lyle Denniston's piece from SCOTUSblog...

Mutual Referrals Between Law Firm and Medical Clinics Lead to Lawsuit

Posted on March 01, 2010
The other week, I posted about how doctors were seeking to benefit from a court ruling in favor of the American Bar Association that certain Federal Trade Commission rules did not apply to attorneys. I tongue-in-cheeked it as evidence that our friends the sawboneses (yes, that's acceptable as the plural) really needed us, and we lawyers should no longer feel like second-class citizens of Learned Professionville...

A New Sheriff in Town? Joe Arpaio Under Pressure

Posted on March 01, 2010
Via the ImmigrationProf Blog, I found this Washington Post article on Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio. For those of you who've been living under a rock heavier than the one I just recently managed to dislodge, Arpaio is the head law enforcement officer for the county that includes Phoenix, and has for quite some time been the subject of much controversy...

Buying the Extra Half Point Is Now Called 'Executing the No-Push Endorsement'

Posted on March 01, 2010
Don't like those pesky laws against sports gambling stopping you from placing a hefty wager on France to win the World Cup? Well, just stop in to your local insurance agent. Because while you can't legally place a bet on the outcome of the tournament, it's OK to take out an "insurance policy" AGAINST THE RISK that France might emerge victorious...

Disclaimer Link Could Solve Compliance Dilemma for Public Companies Using Twitter

Posted on February 26, 2010
Twitter is increasingly becoming a channel for public companies to communicate with investors but, as Dominic Jones of IR Web Report observes in this post, some of Twitter's inherent limitations create compliance challenges. As Jones notes, public companies' communications to the world are in many instances regulated by the SEC and subject to the federal securities laws...

Nature May Be Calling, But New York City Street Vendors Can't Pick Up

Posted on February 26, 2010
When you gotta go, you gotta go ... unless you are a New York street vendor, in which case you gotta NOT go or else the New York Department of Health will swoop in and promptly scratch the permit off of your hot nut cart in the 20 minutes that you are away from your stand...

Friday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on February 26, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm at a Major League Baseball game with my family. Hey, there's the team mascot firing hot dogs into the stands with a rocket launcher. Now he's throwing them into the stands right near me...

Judge Carton Rules: Tennis Pros and Kookaburras

Posted on February 26, 2010
Today I kick off what could turn into an ongoing series of posts here at Legal Blog Watch, assuming the continued future clueless-ness of litigants: "Judge Carton Rules." No, Judge Carton is not a real judge and, like Judge Wapner, my rulings are not "technically" binding on the parties...

Zombies Have Fourth Amendment Rights Too

Posted on February 25, 2010
Howard Bashman over at How Appealing picked up on an 8th Circuit case decided yesterday, ruling in favor of seven people who had been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting "consumerism" by dressing up like zombies and plodding around during the 2006 Aquatennial...

European Court of Justice Rules Goods Made in West Bank Not Israeli

Posted on February 25, 2010
The highest court in the European Union ruled today (PDF) that goods manufactured in the Israeli occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are not covered by the trade agreement between the European Community and Israel, and thus may be subject to import duties when shipped into a member state...

Crooked Tomato Broker Actually Tried the Old 'I Found $100' Bit

Posted on February 25, 2010
The federal investigation into corruption in the tomato industry, which has been ongoing since 2008, took a new turn recently, with revelations that some of the tomatoes that were sold to food industry heavyweights such as Kraft were contaminated with mold and other non-delicious additives...

Wiki-What? Reflections of a Cyberlaw Professor on an Alternative to the 'Final Exam Only' Grading System

Posted on February 25, 2010
Eric Goldman, of the Santa Clara University law school faculty, who blogs over at Goldman's Observations, has a lengthy post detailing his experiment with offering students in his Cyberspace Law class (yes, that's really what it's called) the option to have a portion of their grade based on something other than the final exam...

Blog Documents First Amendment Violations Against Photographers

Posted on February 24, 2010
I wrote about this topic in passing back in December when I noted the plight of an Italian art student visiting London who, after filming certain "iconic" landmarks in the City, was tossed in prison for being a potential terrorist. There seems to be no shortage of such cases, unfortunately...

'Please Rob Me': Answering Machine and Wedding Edition

Posted on February 24, 2010
You've been scared straight by the fear-mongers by now: users of geolocation services such as Foursquare and Brightkite will surely be robbed, they say, by evil-doers who use the "I am here" information to then go where you are not -- home. Oh, and your insurance premiums may go up because you are such a crazy risk-taker in announcing your geolocation daily...

Wednesday's Three Burning Legal Questions

Posted on February 24, 2010
Here are today's three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I'm a mother. Another child spit on my child at school. What is the proper response? I'm contemplating maybe throwing back a 40-ounce malt liquor and heading into the elementary school with a sword...

Woman Sought by Police for Allegedly Seducing Boy Through PlayStation

Posted on February 24, 2010
Just when you thought you had a handle on the various places that were potential risks to your kids online, here is a new one: their PlayStation. Video game blog Kotaku reports (via Consumerist) that police in Oklahoma City are looking for Annamay Alexander, a 43-year-old woman they believed seduced a 14-year-old boy whom she met via "PlayStation Home...

Massachusetts Courts Still Faced with 'Big Dig' Suits

Posted on February 23, 2010
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Boston, construction, graft or incompetence, knows something about the "Big Dig," the infamous tunnel project that took forever, cost about 10 times as much as projected, and didn't really do a great job of addressing the traffic problems that it was designed to alleviate...

A Prosecutor's Perspective on the Fraction of Criminal Cases That Go to Trial

Posted on February 23, 2010
D.A. Confidential, a refreshingly candid, well-written and insightful blog by Travis County Assistant District Attorney Mark Pryor (that should cover me if I ever get a ticket for jaywalking, the worst offense I'd ever even consider committing here in my adopted hometown), has a good post this morning attempting to explain why so few cases, particularly misdemeanor cases, get to the "The people may call their first witness" stage...

Relish That Hot Dog, You Might Not Recognize Your Next One

Posted on February 23, 2010
Yesterday, the American Academy of Pediatrics released a policy statement on Prevention of Choking Among Children (PDF). A laudable goal, no doubt. One particular recommendation found in the report, though, has got the American public's hackles up. The kiddie docs identified the hot dog as the food on which little Billy is most likely to choke and die...

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