Wired Magazine is reporting that the Judicial Conference of the United States, the body that develops policy for federal courts in that country, has proposed new model jury instructions that explicitly ban the use of applications like Facebook and Twitter: “U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson o ...

Paul Robinson of Rockland, Massachusetts was arrested last week after employees of a Dunkin' Donuts reported that he had exposed himself to them several times since last October. Apparently the manager of the store had reported the activity days before the arrest but no one was able to locate the su ...

After fifty 'leven recent examples of trials being upended by jurors improperly using their cell phones, computers, Twitter or other communications technologies during jury service, a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States has had enough. The Blog of the Legal Times' Marcia Coyle ...

Goodbye fingerprinting, hello iris scans. Fingerprinting a suspect is so last year. Arapahoe County [Colorado]Sheriff Grayson Robinson unveiled new technology today that will allow officials to scan an arrestee's iris and within seconds get all the pertinent information about the person. ...

Court Explains in No Uncertain Terms When and How to Say [bad word here] at Work :: Reeves v. C.H. Robinson Worldwide (pdf)

There was a late rush to meet the deadline - the Senate Finance and Public Administration Committee has published 26 submissions received on the Freedom of Information Reform Bills. All welcome the reforms, with plenty of "buts", and many again reiterate points made but dismissed with no explanation ...

Defendant was suspected of paying juveniles to engage in sex with each other and him and photographing it, and other juveniles with knowledge were citizen informants. This apparently was common knowledge among a group of young people, and the police found out. The police were told that defendant u ...

"Earthquake! We see the earth shake! But the soul of the Haitianpeople, It will never break!" --Wyclef JeanThe FundamentalsFirst things first. Like all IntLawGrrls and people around the world, I express my deepest condolences to the hundreds of thousands who lost loved ones in the Haiti earthquake o ...

There were signs this morning that the economy is starting to pick up again. If that continues to happen, there is no doubt that we'll start to see many more employees changing jobs to take advantage of new opportunities. But as that happens, some of those employees' employers will be left scratchi ...

District judge Sue L. Robinson this week issued a rare win to a party asserting a laches defense. According to the Court, eleven patent applications and ten abandonements, among others, adequately demonstrated the patent-in-suit's unenforceability: "Taken in the totality, this case involves eleve ...