As detailed in , which is headlined "Pawlenty: Time to get tougher on sex crimes," Minnesota's governor (and a future presidential candidate?) is talking about significantly increasing his states punishment table for sex offenders. Here are the basics: this local article Gov. Ti ...

Frank Fesnak settles his age discrimination lawsuit with Horshal for $175,000. The lawsuit was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). According to details provided in the lawsuit Fesnak performed his duties as vice president of strategic alliances without incident but was f ...

Frank Fesnak settles his age discrimination lawsuit with Horshal for $175,000. The lawsuit was filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). According to details provided in the lawsuit Fesnak performed his duties as vice president of strategic alliances without incident but was f ...

 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 ...

Un accord prévoyant l’échange d’informations sur les virus et le partage des avantages liés à la gestion des droits de propriété intellectuelle qui en découlent devrait être conclu dans le cadre d’une nouvelle négociation intergouvernementale organisée sous les auspices de la directrice générale de ...

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 ...

The subject of antitrust exemptions has been an oft-discussed topic here at TOTM (see, e.g. here and here).  In the latter of those two links I was somewhat critical of the DOJ for taking a neutral stance on the insurance industry exemption, which has now become rather wrapped up in the health care ...

Lack of road signs can cause drivers to be technically “blind” because it prevents them from seeing possible dangers they might face on the roads.This stands as the primary reason why the family members of a motorcyclist killed in an accident last July have filed a $10 million wrongful death claim a ...

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 ...

The Development of Structure in the SCOTUS Citation Network The visualization offered above is the largest weakly connected component of the citation network of the United States Supreme Court (1800-1829). Each time slice visualizes the aggregate network as of the year in question. In our paper ent ...