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ZUKERBERG BEATS BALLOT CHALLENGE – IT’S IN THE HANDS OF THE VOTERS AGAIN
A misguided attempt to bounce Paul Zukerberg from the April 23 ballot for DC Council failed today, as the DC Board of Elections ruled that Paul had 3,000 valid petition signatures. Elissa Silverman,...
View Article"Sequestration Will Wreak Chaos On U.S. Federal Prisons"
The title of this post is the headline of this very interesting new piece from Business Insider. Here are excerpts: Sequestration will hit each and every aspect of the U.S. government, but for the...
View ArticleAG Holder indicates federal response to state marijuana reforms coming...
As reported in this piece from The Hill, "Attorney General Eric Holder promised Washington and Colorado state attorneys general on Tuesday that the Justice Department would issue its verdict 'soon' on...
View ArticleFreispruch wegen Notwehr
In einem Geschäft über Kraftsportbedarf in Frankfurt am Main kam es zum Streit zwischen dem Verkäufer und einem potentiellen Kunden. Dabei ging es um einen nicht gewährten Rabatt für Boxhandschuhe. Im...
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Breath Tests Used in Schools to Discourage Drunk Driving
Teenage drunk driving is a major problem in Boston and throughout the United States. Teenagers are inexperienced drivers under the best of circumstances and are more likely than their older...
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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Case Regarding Legality of Non-Unanimous Jury...
The Supreme Court decided earlier this week that it would not hear a case about whether the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial includes a condition that the juries reach their verdicts...
View ArticleCivic Virtue: Teach Your Children Well
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="Arial">There's a discussion brewing at Concurring Opinions around a book by lawprofs <a href=...
View ArticleLamp as Inanimate Object and Other Really Bad Analogies
The Washington Post held a contest a couple of years ago in which it asked school teachers to send in examples of the worst analogies they had ever encountered in grading student papers. Below, with...
View ArticleIn Defense of Paternalism
Policies designed to encourage people to do things that are good for them, and discourage people from doing things that are bad for them, are not in vogue. They’re derided as the province of a “nanny...
View ArticleAre Risks Wrong?
John Oberdiek, The Moral Significance of Risking, 18 Legal Theory 339 (2012).Anthony SebokIn The Moral Significance of Risking, John Oberdiek offers a theory of why risk imposition is prima facie...
View ArticleThere's No Standing in a Coffin
<font style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" face="arial">The <a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/caseorcontroversy.htm">doctrine of Standing</a> is generally a...
View ArticleHow Can I Speed up my Ignition Interlock Installation?
One of the common problems we have these days with DWI restricted licenses in Virginia is that the ignition interlock process takes some time to get set up. If you go to court for DWI and you’re found...
View ArticleM.D.Fla.: Questions about whether there is a gun within reach are not subject...
Questions to the defendant about whether there is a gun within reach are not subject to Miranda under Quarles. United States v. Hickman, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 25247 (M.D. Fla. January 24, 2013),...
View ArticleCA11: Affidavit for SW for doctor for overprescribing didn't require expert...
In an overprescribing case against a doctor, the 39 page affidavit for a search warrant for his house and office did not require an expert’s opinion that he was overprescribing and that he continued to...
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Overzealous Prosecution Should Be Met With Experienced Defense
Internet activist Aaron Swartz was facing federal felony charges carrying the threat of 35 years behind bars when he committed suicide last month, sending shock waves throughout the country and...
View ArticleUS Sentencing Commission releases big new report on federal child porn...
As reported in this official press release, this morning "the United States Sentencing Commission submitted to Congress its comprehensive report examining federal sentencing policy in child pornography...
View ArticleWalker on Sex, Slavery & the Freedom Principle
Anders Walker (Saint Louis University - School of Law) has posted Strange Traffic: Sex, Slavery & the Freedom Principle on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article uses the recent prosecution of a...
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The Laptop, Involuntary Statements and Inevitable Discovery
After he was convicted of “Soliciting a Child by a Computerand Attempted Indecent Liberties with a Child," -->both in violation of North Carolina law, Richard Brandon Wells appealed. State v....
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The Saga of Former Justice Hathaway
Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice faces sentencing for Bank Fraud Diane M. Hathaway, a former justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, will be sentencedon May 28 after pleading guilty to one count of...
View ArticleGoogle Glass Should Be Illegal
Google Glass is a computer in the form of eyeglasses. It contains a lens that displays information in a smartphone-like format, and can interact with the Internet via voice commands. The technology...
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