The Blog of Legal Times advises that the Committee on Court Administration and Case Management of the United States Judicial Conference has  developed pattern jury  instructions "to address the increasing incidence of juror use of such devices as cellular telephones or comp ...

En Banc 9th Rules Strip Searches of Inmates Constitutional :: Bull v. San Francisco (pdf)

Apparently not many do - including me - according to Joe Hodnicki at the Law Librarian Blog. Joe suggests that West may be reluctant to distribute free passwords to the academy until its paying customers make the upgrade. You can...

At the same time that the president was calling for bipartisanship and putting “petty politics” aside 1. His spokesman, Glib Gibbs, mocked of Sarah Palin for having some notes on her hand (this from the mouthpiece of a man so wedded to the TelePrompTer that he used one to read his remarks to fifth ...

Thanks to Ed. at Blawg Review for passing along this (somewhat rambling but well worth watching) lecture at Stanford University by  Deborah Kolb, the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Professor for Women and Leadership at the Simmons College School of Management.  Hat tip to Guy Kawasaki ...

In bold, the search terms that Google Analytics tracked to my site: Sect of liars – I belong to several different criminal defense lawyer associations, so it seems appropriate for me to rank highly for this term. Bong hits for Satan – Turns out my wife was right. Released from prison ...

CNN Money.com has posted an article about how you might still be pursued by mortgage lenders even after your home has been foreclosed. If a foreclosed home sells at auction for less than what the mortgage is worth, the former homeowners are responsible for the difference. These "deficiency judgmen ...

CNN Money.com has posted an article about how you might still be pursued by mortgage lenders even after your home has been foreclosed. If a foreclosed home sells at auction for less than what the mortgage is worth, the former homeowners are responsible for the difference. These "deficiency judgmen ...

Apparently not many do - including me - according to Joe Hodnicki at the Law Librarian Blog. Joe suggests that West may be reluctant to distribute free passwords to academy until their paying customers upgrade. You can read the rest...

This is a basic summary of what happens in my Statutory Interpretation class, populated mostly by gunners, assholes, idiots, and me (on any given day, I am some combination of the 3):Child Genius: So, like, the law is ambiguous. And that's like, weird or something. What should we do?That Kid Who Is ...