The timing was too deliciously good to stick. The courtroom showdown over a Colorado woman who was evicted from her apartment for refusing to pay rent after her display of Easter decorations, including the cutest damned snacks in the world, Marshmallow Peeps, was removed by her landlord, has been continued until June. The trial had [...]

I’m not sure there’s too much to say about the academic work below, other than the fact that if you were a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, you, too, could be making videos about the "Development of Structure in the Citation Network of the United States Supreme Court" from 1800-1830. But you are [...]

Courtesy of Mark Edwards, at the PropertyProf Blog, comes the revelation that a bunch of your friends are criminals. Because everybody knows someone who lives in New York and has three "really cool roommates." Unfortunately, The New York Times broke the news yesterday that more than three unrelated people sharing an apartment in the city [...]

In the end, it was a good thing, "just one of those things that brings people closer together," Jack LaVoy said. That’s not the usual spin that a husband would put on his wife being convicted for "attempted prostitution" in an all-out effort to obtain Phillies’ World Series tickets, but I guess we’ll have to [...]

The combination of modern technology and moving vehicles has resulted in some new laws being passed and enforced. You got your texting bans, your hands-free phone requirements, now even calls to ban the police themselves, as well as EMS and fire department personnel, from using onboard computers. Most of these activities, though, are only a [...]

Back in December, I helped mark the 7th birthday of the My Shingle blog with this video interview of its founder (and Legal Blog Watch alumna), Carolyn Elefant. In it, Carolyn reflected on her relatively long tenure in the legal blogosphere and the many things she has learned along the way. This week, Carolyn published [...]

Apparently, my colleague Bruce doesn’t have a monopoly on providing answers to the legal questions that are keeping blawg readers up at night. I don’t know what Bruce knows about tax law, but TaxGirl sure seems to have the skills to answer all your basic tax queries. And kind soul that she is, she welcomes [...]

Anyone who spent time on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Web site over the past few years would probably agree that it was outdated and lacked many features that would be useful to lawyers and other users. As discussed on WisBlog on Friday, the Court rolled out a new Web site last week that, while not [...]

Sunday night, some yahoo got on the PA at a Walmart store in Washington Township, N.J., and made the following announcement: "Attention, Walmart customers: All black people, leave the store now." It is still unclear whether the gentleman was an employee or a customer who got access to one of the dozens of PA-enabled phones [...]

Throughout more of the blogosphere than you might expect, a question appears to be percolating: Should I shut down my current blog, make a clean break, and start anew with another? Well-known bloggers such as Bob Ambrogi are asking that question. So is Venkat Balasubramani. And so is Ron Coleman. Why the urge to purge? [...]

Overlawyered linked today to a site called singlepayerlegal.org. And it’s amusing. So I sure hope that Overlawyered’s determination that it must be nothing more than parody/satire is correct. The premise is the flip side of the argument for a single-payer health care system. The article (PDF) linked to on the front page of the site, [...]

Possibly spurred on by the looming threat of Judge Carton ruling in their cases, three matters recently discussed on Legal Blog Watch have come to interesting conclusions. 1. Fake Killer Giraffes: Earlier this month, a Louisiana judge issued a TRO requiring a publisher to take down a clearly satirical story about fictional killer giraffes. Yesterday, [...]

On Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected attorney advertising restrictions put in place in 2007 by the State of New York. The opinion can be found here. Among the prohibitions that the court struck down as First Amendment no-nos were those barring "portrayals of judges" and "trade names or nicknames that imply [...]

Getting a non-attorney’s perspective on lawsuits filed in the nation’s courts is not a radical idea, is it? After all, in theory it’s your average Joes and Janes who, many years and tens of thousands of dollars down the road, will be asked to decide which party is in the right, right? At the D&O [...]

Lawyer advertising the old fashioned way — sort of — is alive and well in Houston. Via my biggest fan, Scott Greenfield of Simple Justice, comes this story from the Houston Chronicle about a hot dog vendor selling prime ad space on his golf cart, which he parks right outside the courthouse on a daily [...]

“Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God,” she said, grabbing her clothes. “I thought you were your brother.” Straight out of what looks like a bad criminal law final exam comes this story from the Toronto Star (via Bad Lawyer) about a woman who claims she unwittingly had sex with the twin brother [...]

Hammond Action News is a blog that puts out satirical posts lampooning and commenting on the state of affairs in Louisiana. Think The Onion with a local flavor. HAN does not pretend to be a real news source. Its posts are blatantly satirical and the site even includes a disclaimer that reads, simply, "The content [...]

From the Brave New World file comes a camera phone application that must have law enforcement and many others a bit on edge. The Mail Online reports in this article that an application called "Recognizr" uses facial recognition software to enable the user to find names, telephone numbers and addresses of complete strangers by simply [...]

Lest you think we here at Legal Blog Watch were not aware that today is Skilling Day at the Supreme Court, here’s part of the story that makes for a layperson-friendly discussion over a round of Siberian Donkeys (it’s a drink, I swear). If you’re looking for an in-depth description of the vagueness issue as [...]