Well the TV series American Chopper is suddenly coming to an end; the last show is this Thursday at 9:00pm EST on the Learning Channel. Many of you may have read the article I wrote about the Teutul family lawsuit here. I became aware of the fact that the show was ending when I saw a commercial on ...

If one has a weak password for one’s web-based personal information, is it reasonable to conclude that one has a reduced expectation of privacy with respect to that information? (Here’s an English list (from 2006) of the 10 most common password and a list of the 500 worst ones, from the point of vie ...

If Barack Obama hoped to calm people down over the panty-bomber incident, he just failed massively. Sunday morning, White House Counterterrorism Chief John Brenan tried to get the Republicans to share in the blame. Not only did it not work, but the Republicans are coming forward to say Brennan is ...

EEOC had alleged that Sears maintained an inflexible workers’ compensation leave exhaustion policy and terminated employees instead of providing them with reasonable accommodations for their disabilities, in violation of the ADA. The case resulted in the largest ADA settlement in a single lawsuit ...

The Chicago Tribune (1/26, Jackson and Marks) reports, “Authorities have investigated at least 86 cases of sexual violence against elderly and disabled residents of Chicago nursing homes since July 2007, but only one of those cases resulted in an arrest.” Furthermore, of Chicago’s nursing home faci ...

At Hurley, McKenna, & Mertz, we are well aware of the trauma that accompanies wrongful death of children in foster care, as we have both experience and success with such cases. A recent article in the University of La Verne Law Review authored by Daniel Pollack and Gary L. Popham, Jr. illustrates t ...

At , Doug Kendall has , headlined "Fill the Bench Now: Now is the time for Obama to move on judicial nominations," which take President Obama to task for the slow pace of his judicial nominations. Here are excerpts: Slate this new commentary By February 2002, President George W. Bus ...

Why aren't drivers getting the message that drinking and driving don't mix? Why can't they see that this is a dangerous, sometimes fatal combination? The family of 19 year-old Kevin Benes learned this the hard way when a drunk driver slammed into the young Illinois man's car last Dec 11, causing h ...

An English court has refused an injunction against the publication of the story of an alleged affair between a well-known football player and a teammate’s girlfriend: Terry v. Persons Unknown [2010] EWHC 119 (QB). English law has recently given a good deal of protection to the privacy of celebrities ...

There are certain subtle advantages to living in a city best known to the outside world for the way Bugs Bunny pronounces it.  Once is that you learn not to make fun of other cities' names.  Such as Yadkinville.  Even though Booger Swamp Road meets up with Main Street just west of tow ...