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Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I just got home and I see that someone has removed and thrown away every last possession that was in my condominium, including my clothes, my wedding dress, baby pictures, wedding photos, my dishes, my towels and my [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I see "state birds" and "state flowers" around the country. Maryland even has a "state sport" of jousting, for crying out loud. Why don’t any states have a state microbe? Answer: Not so fast. Check out Assembly Bill [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blawgosphere. 1) Question: I am the director of a theatrical version of “The Graduate” at the local nonprofit theater. We need to provide Mrs. Robinson with a lighted cigarette on stage so she can do a dramatic exhale of a puff [...]

It is that most wonderful time of year, when we make our lists and check them twice — not holiday lists but those perennial best-of and worst-of year-enders. We have three for you today. First up, the American Tort Reform Association’s annual ranking of Judicial Hellholes, its picks of the most unfair jurisdictions in which [...]

What once seemed an isolated criminal incident is fast becoming a national epidemic that threatens the safety of our streets and the moral fiber of our society. I am referring, of course, to the growing problem of drunken men driving modified, motorized chairs — and of those who try to profit from this criminality by [...]

Intellectual property plaintiffs lawyer Raymond P. Niro, co-founder of the Chicago firm Niro, Scavone, Haller & Niro, had already achieved notoriety enough when he became even more controversial for offering a bounty of $5,000 to unmask an anonymous blogger. Niro didn’t like that the anonymous author of the now-defunct Troll Tracker blog repeatedly criticized his [...]

It is somewhat hard to believe that 43 years after Miranda v. Arizona, the requirements for providing suspects with their legal rights could still be murky. Indeed, by now, grade-school kids can probably recite most of the now-famous "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do can and will be held [...]

Over on the PrawfsBlawg, guest blogger Joseph Blocher, a professor at Duke Law School, asks a great question that may resonate with some of you lawyers/NFL fans out there: Why are instant replays in the NFL (or in any other sport) subject to a heightened standard of review that requires “conclusive” or “indisputable” evidence to [...]

It looks like a golden age for the purveyors of continuing legal education programs in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Law Journal reports that the state’s Board of Bar Examiners approved 13,000 CLE programs last year. In spite of the wealth of CLE options, many topics don’t qualify for CLE, particularly those that deal with practice management, [...]

Artist Andy Warhol died more than two decades ago, but his notoriety continues well beyond the 15 minutes of fame he predicted everyone would someday have. Now, a federal lawsuit claims Warhol and his associate, film director Paul Morrissey, violated federal child pornography laws and engaged in torture when they used a teenage boy named [...]