Criminal Law

More people buying personal breathalyzers
This is a weird little trend, but experts say there's a burgeoning market for privately-owned breathalyzers, USA Today reports. Police aren't thrilled, though, because they don't think people are going to use them correctly and, thus, will think they're OK...

Article On Alcoholics, Convicts, Drug Addicts In The Workplace
Law Relating To Alcoholics, Convicts, Drug Addicts In The WorkplaceDownload Alcoholics-convicts-drug-addicts-in-the-workplace is an interesting May 19, 2009 New York Law Journal article by Louis Pechman...

Breathalyzers in High School--Now There's a Thought...
An article published last October in USA Today recounts the increasingly common sight of breathalyzers administered at high schools social functions such as sports events and dances...

Columnist Argues Mortgage Companies Should Discriminate, Even Against Those on Parental Leave, to Limit Risk
The Atlantic: Mortgage Companies Should Discriminate, by Daniel Indiviglio: Lately, there have been several news stories chastising mortgage companies for taking new measures to discriminate among borrowers...

IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER BREATHALYZER POST, reader Rich Andrews sends this: How Breathalyzers Work
IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER BREATHALYZER POST, reader Rich Andrews sends this: How Breathalyzers Work (and Why They Don?t). By the way, Lawrence Taylor’s DUI Blog is an interesting resource, if you’ve never checked it out...

Sowell: Equality or Payback
If it is all right to discriminate today against individuals who have done you no harm, then why was it wrong to discriminate against you in the past?