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 ...

 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 ...

A recent article in a Food and Drug Law Institute publication talks about the important benefits — and risks — when a corporate defendant tells the prosecutor that “my lawyer said it was OK.” Attorney John Fleder writes that the government has become more aggressive in prosec ...

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 a post yesterday (Is Obama “Everything”?) I referred to the sense in which Democrats do seem to regard Obama as The Messiah, as in “the Alpha and the Omega” from Revelation 22:13. (Otherwise how could they argue that Republican opposition to their 2700 page health care bill means they oppose “eve ...

Toyota Motor Corp announced two separate recalls today. The first recall involves a global recall of 437,000 2010 Toyota hybrids—Prius, Lexus, and Sai—over issues with the vehicles’ anti-lock braking systems. Last week, the automaker admitted that there was a problem with the software that controls ...

The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled a county could not bar the operation of a commercial composting business in a zoning district where the business was not permitted as a matter of right, because it could not produce a zoning map establishing the property’s zoning (The Rohrbach family operates a ho ...

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 ...