Litigation

What I Was Just Sampling the Evidence
Pop Quiz: You’re a prospective juror for a marijuana possession case. What’s the best way to avoid jury duty? A prospective juror in a marijuana possession trial was hauled off to jail Tuesday after police said they caught her smoking…

Boston Juror, Judge Go Toe-to-Toe Over Nullification Issue
Back in March, we blogged a Time article written by the creators of “The Wire.” The piece described the country’s “unwinnable drug war” as having turned from “a battle against dangerous substances” into “a venal war on our underclass...

EDNY Judge Denies Motion for New Trial Premised on Allegedly False Statements by Juror During Voir Dire
A prospective juror who says he?s a political science professor, albeit also a lawyer who has not practiced for the last six years, sounds like a good defense gamble.  After all, liberal professors outnumber conservatives in the social sciences by...

“Fraud on the PTO”
Here’s a special guest post on the TTABlog that lays out the state of the law regarding the increasingly confusing, and sometimes distressing, issue for trademark lawyers of what constitutes “fraud” in the prosecution and maintenance of federal trademark applications and registrations...

"Prospective juror in pot trial caught smoking marijuana; Woman charged with drug possession on break from trial"
"Prospective juror in pot trial caught smoking marijuana; Woman charged with drug possession on break from trial": This article appears today in The Houston Chronicle.

The American Jury System: A Whole Lot Of Gaming Going On
Before we return to the meltdown of our financial system, let’s check in on the meltdown of our jury system. “Jury duty is like the speed limit,” writes Nathan Koppel in a WSJ article entitled, ‘Excuse Me, Your Honor, The Dog Ate My Civic Duty...