Friday, December 28, 2007 10:12 AM - By Billy Merck
* Rest in peace, Benazir Bhutto; God knows you weren’t able to live in it. [CNN]
* That seems like a pretty good starting point for liability against the zoo. [BBC]
* We don’t know if you know Tom Goldstein, but he’s a pretty big deal. [SCOTUSBlog]
* If he could only apply all of that genius to acquiring some money to actually make a mortgage payment… [WSJ Law Blog]
Thursday, December 27, 2007 10:11 AM - By Billy Merck
* NRA defends the rights of hurricane victims to shoot at the National Guard keep guns. [AP via How Appealing]
* French “aid” workers sentenced to eight years of hard labor in Chad “orphan” case. [Jurist]
* Apparently if you’re a rapper you can show up at court when you damn well please. [Athens Banner-Herald]
* If you feel guilty about it, at least you can take comfort in the fact that you’ve helped set up an appeal. [CNN]
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:20 PM - By Billy Merck
* Would a holiday search be unreasonable? [Findlaw via How Appealing]
* Is the DOJ passing up a chance to crack down on plaintiff’s lawyers? [WSJ Law Blog]
* Nothing but a G string. [CNN]
* Toby Keith puts his boot in the defendant’s ass in the form of a $2.8 million verdict for his family in a suit over the wrongful death of his father. [AP via Asbury Park Press]
Friday, December 14, 2007 9:00 AM - By Billy Merck
* So, it’s gonna be illegal now, which means the CIA can’t do it, right? [Washington Post via How Appealing]
* New Jersey gets rid of the death penalty; now if they could just tackle that disgusting odor. [BBC]
* Prosecutors go 0-1-6 in Sears Tower trial. [CNN]
* Hey, look everybody! International law! They’ve got a court with judges and lawyers and stuff, and they even issue rulings! Just like it’s real! That’s cute. ICJ upholds treaty giving islands to Colombia. [Jurist]
* Hollywood writers take this strike thing up a notch. [AP via Reno Gazette-Journal]
Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:30 AM - By Billy Merck
* Well, Justice Thomas, it’s no place for stubborn, illogical reasoning either, but hey… [South Florida Sun-Sentinel via How Appealing]
* Obama’s road not taken; has it made all the difference? [Legal Times]
* Car companies’ suit against California tossed. [Jurist]
* Bush still doesn’t care about poor kids. [AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* Is “orgy guy” a suspect classification? [CNN]
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:25 AM - By Billy Merck
* Necessary torture? [ABC via How Appealing]
* Turns out she’s both pregnant and a big fat liar. [CNN]
* Separate continues to get more equal. [New York Times]
* More about Kansas’s Attorney General (yesterday’s Lawyer of the Day). [Washington Times]
* Bush issues end-of-year pardon list, which includes cutting short the sentence of a crack dealer but does not include Scooter Libby. [AP via CNN]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:15 AM - By Billy Merck
* Score one for judicial discretion in sentencing. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)]
* And another. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF); New York Times]
* Receiving a gun in a trade for drugs is not “using” it. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)]
* Libby ditches his appeal. [Washington Post]
* New Jersey may soon have some spare machinery of death, if you’re in the market for some. [Newark Star-Ledger via How Appealing]
Monday, December 10, 2007 9:15 AM - By Billy Merck
* Vick to be sentenced. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* He Flatley denied the allegations, and apparently he was telling the truth. [AP via Reno Gazette-Journal]
* All’s well that ends well for fired U.S. Attorneys. [Los Angeles Times via How Appealing]
* And home will come lawyer, baby and all. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* First thing we do, let’s detain all the lawyers. [Jurist]
* And speaking of detained lawyers… [Jurist]
Friday, November 30, 2007 9:25 AM - By Billy Merck
* Wow, you’re hanging around for that couch change Paterno? Why don’t you do us a favor and retire already? Seriously; it’s enough already with the being old and the sucking. [AP via How Appealing]
* Mas CAFE, por favor. [CNN]
* BP admits it has a little bit of a pollution problem. [Jurist]
* He shot a man in Reno…but not to watch him die, according to him. [Reno Gazette-Journal]
* Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice pays to settle ethics violaton claims. [Athens Banner-Herald]
Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:20 AM - By Billy Merck
* NWA has to pay pilots’ attorney’s fees. [AP via Yahoo! Finance]
* Morrisey’s not only a miserable bastard, he’s a xenophobe too! (Don’t sue us, Morrisey; we’re just kidding.) [Contact Music]
* Ford rolls over on Explorer suits. [AP via Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
* HBO chickens out on trademark suit. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Georgia man with mandatory 10-year sentence in case similar to Genarlow Wilson’s (though different enough according to the Georgia Supreme Court that he was still in prison) given plea deal to get out of jail. [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
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