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Tardive Dyskinesia and Primary Pulmonary Hypertension

Posted on September 20, 2009
What do those two illnesses have in common? They can both be caused pharmaceutical products. Tardive Dyskinesia is a movement disorder that particularly affects the face. People who suffer from it can?t control their lips and eyes. It can cause...

Tort Reform, Health Care Reform, and Socialism

Posted on September 12, 2009
Brian Wilson has a great post about the contradictory stance some people have on all of the above. And while we're on the topic of "socialism," those opposing health care reform have recently begun to argue that the federal govenmnent...

Dems can learn a thing or two from McCain

Posted on August 27, 2009
I don?t think he can run the country, but he can run his town hall meetings: PHOENIX - Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to...

Curious About Tort Reform?

Posted on August 25, 2009
One of the topics that keeps coming up again and again in the health care debate is whether or not we need to change the civil justice system. Many people proposing these changes call it tort reform. Others, like myself,...

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Tips For The First Day of Law School

Posted on August 16, 2009
I know that law school starts for some schools tomorrow, and for others on next Monday. The first day of any semester is always the most important because it determines who you?ll end up sitting next to. I know you?re...

Lawsuit filed against college for allowing a culture of drug and alcohol abuse

Posted on August 15, 2009
The lawsuit is against Utah State University: Utah State University officials long tolerated "a culture of drug and alcohol abuse" at a fraternity house where a teenage freshman pledge died of alcohol poisoning after an alleged hazing last fall, his....

Legal Reader Reborn!

Posted on August 14, 2009
My name is Justinian Lane, and I've been a fan of LegalReader.com for many years. When I saw a few months ago that John's interest in the site had waned, I offered to take it over. The two of us...

Thoughts on Gay Pride Day

Posted on June 28, 2009
[I first published this 6 years ago, in 2003. I thought I would bump it back to the top of the list.] Tomorrow (Sunday) is the annual Gay Pride Parade down Market Street in my home town, San Francisco. I...

Do You Want This Blog?

Posted on February 01, 2009
I started this blog in November 2002, which makes it quite elderly and venerable. I seem to have lost interest in blogging in the last year or so. Do you want to take it over? I think it costs about...

Why Are There No Black Gummy Bears?

Posted on December 15, 2008
I'd never thought about this before. Is it a racist conspiracy? My cat is black, and I'm certain that if he liked Gummy Bears he would be pissed off about it too....

Next President Will Shape Supreme Court

Posted on October 20, 2008
One of the most momentous and least-discussed topics in the presidential campaign is the likely departure in the next four years of as many as three of the more liberal justices on a closely divided U.S. Supreme Court. When the...

Morro Bay Pot Dispensary Owner Found Guilty of Federal Charges

Posted on August 06, 2008
From the Los Angeles Times: In a closely watched trial involving conflicting marijuana laws, a jury on Tuesday convicted the owner of a Morro Bay medical marijuana dispensary on five counts of violating federal drug laws. Charles Lynch, 46, was...

Broadcom's Co-Founder Charged in Tawdry Narcotics Indictment

Posted on June 05, 2008
This guy RULES!!! I was gonna write about this myself, but The Smoking Gun has already done it better than I could, so why bother? JUNE 5--A technology billionaire was a drug fiend who trafficked in cocaine, Ecstasy, and methamphetamine,...

Lawyer Hopes F-Word Means 'Forgiven,' Asks Court to Lift Sanctions

Posted on May 07, 2008
The lawyer who was hit with sanctions for failing to rein in a foul-mouthed client is now asking a federal judge for permission to drop the client and begging for the sanctions imposed on him to be lifted. The Feb....

Right to Confront Dildos

Posted on March 11, 2008
From Above The Law comes the Florida case in which the defendant Tyrrell: [F]irst argues that his ?right to due process and right to confront witnesses? was violated because the state did not produce the [sex toys] that were the...

For Law Wonks Only

Posted on March 11, 2008
Got time to kill? How Appealing recently pointed me to Bryan Garner's interviews with eight-out-of-nine sitting Supreme Court justices regarding their tips on written and oral advocacy. I found them fascinating and enlightening listening. Among the most surprising things: Justice...

Assault Rap for Rough Handshake

Posted on February 11, 2008
FBK wants you to know: A Florida lawyer has been charged with assault for over-vigorously shaking the hand of a fellow attorney. Kathy Brewer Rentas, 49, shook the hand of Assistant US Attorney Jennifer Keene so hard her arm was...

Lawyer Misses Client?s Murder Trial, Says He?s on Sabbatical

Posted on January 29, 2008
A Las Vegas personal injury lawyer known for his colorful commercials failed to show up last week to defend a client accused of murder, telling a prosecutor he was on sabbatical out of state. Glen Lerner left a voice mail...

Neuborne Holocaust-Suit Fee Flap Again Rears Its Ugly Head

Posted on January 29, 2008
Loyal Law Blog readers will remember the controversy surrounding Burt Neuborne, the NYU law professor who was awarded $3.1 million by a federal judge for his work administering a $1.25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and Holocaust survivors. A number...

Partner Offers $10K Bounty for Blogger?s Identity

Posted on January 29, 2008
A Chicago lawyer who is being criticized, along with his law firm, in an anonymous Internet blog supposedly authored by a fellow attorney has offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who can provide him with the identity of "Troll Tracker."...

Who?s Cuddly Now? Law Firms

Posted on January 25, 2008
IN the last two decades, as working schedules became flexible, and even accounting firms, of all places, embraced the mantra of work-life balance (at least on paper), there was one unbending, tradition-bound profession: the law. That is why it is...

Charge Against Ex-Boxer Dropped When Witness Shows Up Drunk

Posted on January 25, 2008
PORTLAND, Maine -- A felony charge against a former women's boxing champion from South Portland was dropped when the alleged victim showed up in court too drunk to testify. The prosecutor said she was reluctantly dropping the elevated aggravated assault...

Santa Barbara Paper Illegally Fired Union Backers, Judge Says

Posted on January 01, 2008
A judge has ruled that the Santa Barbara News-Press committed flagrant violations of federal labor laws when it fired eight journalists for engaging in union activities, and he ordered that the newspaper rehire the former employees. Evidence presented during...

Public Defender Builds Injection Case

Posted on January 01, 2008
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) ? One of the biggest capital punishment cases to come before the U.S. Supreme Court in a generation was put together largely by a young, fresh-out-of-law-school member of Kentucky's overworked and underpaid corps of public defenders...

Lawyer Finds Redemption in Helping Poor

Posted on January 01, 2008
He used to be one of them. Now an attorney, he's dedicated to helping drug addicts and skid row residents. Legal aid lawyer Louis Rafti was leading a group of law students on a tour of skid row when he...

Trial Delayed Due to LSU-Ohio St. Game

Posted on December 22, 2007
Justice can wait until after the LSU game. A state judge near the home of the Tigers has agreed to postpone a trial scheduled to start on the same day LSU plays Ohio State in the BCS national championship game....

Control Sought on Military Lawyers

Posted on December 17, 2007
Bush wants power over promotions The Bush administration is pushing to take control of the promotions of military lawyers, escalating a conflict over the independence of uniformed attorneys who have repeatedly raised objections to the White House's policies toward prisoners...

Bill Would Penalize Judges Leaving for High-Paying Jobs

Posted on December 17, 2007
Monday in The Daily Journal of California, Lawrence Hurley will have an article that begins, "Congress may be offering federal judges a major pay raise for the first time in 16 years, but lawmakers are also embracing a plan to...

There Goes the Judge

Posted on December 13, 2007
Just how low does a California judge have to go to be forced out of his or her job? The state's eleven-member Commission on Judicial Performance is responsible for answering that question. And, in fact, the commission rarely rules that...

The Man That Got Away

Posted on December 12, 2007
Judges dreamed of having Barack Obama as their clerk. Why did he turn them all down? Among prominent federal appeals court judges in the 1990s, Barack Obama was known as ?the one who got away.? In 1990, Obama had...

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