Real Estate & Property Law

GASSING GEESE Madison has a geese problem too. These filthy, vicious fowl have newly infested the
GASSING GEESE? “Madison has a geese problem too. These filthy, vicious fowl have newly infested the area around Picnic Point. But is gassing the best solution? Shouldn’t we be eating them?” This is precisely the position taken by our Nigerian relatives who see all these annoying — but very fat — geese running [...

Lenexa PD wrote 26 tickets during last week's traffic-enforcement campaign
From the always excellent Benita Williams: The tickets were issued as part of a special child restraint enforcement campaign from Feb. 11 to 17. It was funded with grants from the Kansas Department of Transportation...

VA man helps geese cross road, gets ticketed
For jaywalking, which he plans to fight in traffic court. The man reportedly stopped traffic on a highway with four lanes, then shooed the Canada geese along. The police say he should've pulled over, then called police to help...

Zelinsky: New York Appellate Division Upholds 'Amazon' Law
Edward A. Zelinsky (Cardozo) has posted New York Appellate Division Upholds 'Amazon' Law: Analysis, 59 State Tax Notes ___ (2011), on SSRN. Here is the abstract: In Amazon.com LLC v...

Indiana Appellate Court Upholds Sex Offender Ban
The Indiana Court of Appeals has ruled that although Plainfield, Indiana's ban on sex offenders in the parks does have punitive effects, it is not unconstitutional. The ruling, which may be viewed here, upholds an ordinance "prohibiting persons on the...

Gassed Geese and Airport Safety
David Cassuto A few days ago, agents of the U.S. Department of Agriculture descended on Prospect Park in Brooklyn where they rounded up 400 Canada geese and gassed them to death.  The geese were molting and so could not fly...

Nanotechnology Law
Intellectual property laws

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Child Support Survival Guide
The Child Support Enforcement System

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Personal Injury
Appeals Court Upholds Congressional Legislation

PhotoCop Tickets
Minneapolis to pay $2.6 million settlement in traffic enforcement lawsuit.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement
alleging government agencies and officials violated immigrant workers' constitutional rights.

Ebay Fined
French Court Sets Fine at $61 Million

Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Division of Immigration Health Services
allegedly drugged deported immigrants with sedatives.

Online Ticket Vendor
Buying Tickets Online That Never Arrive