We’ve all seen what can happen when you mix New Jersey and alcohol. So Garden State residents (and visitors) should always be on heightened alert against too much imbibing. This is especially so if they plan on getting behind the wheel. But an appellate court has now ruled (.pdf) that drivers who are injured in [...]

Who better to be the first reported lawyer to use an iPad to help win a jury trial than someone who calls himself MacLitigator? Via this post on iPhone J.D. I learned about the recent trial experience of Peter Summeril (pictured, sans iPad), a plaintiff’s attorney in Utah who also writes the MacLitigator blog. Writing [...]

Much has already been written about the controversial Arizona immigration law (PDF) that was signed by Governor Jan Brewer last Friday. The WSJ Law Blog reports this morning that constitutional challenges are already being prepared. Now, word that a Texas lawmaker is planning to push a similar bill in that state’s next legislative session. As [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I really want an iPad but I don’t have that kind of money. Roughly how many years until I can pick myself up a counterfeit iPad from China? Answer: Years? Ha!!! You can get one right now. (The [...]

The British High Court ruled Friday that "fixtures" (a fancy British word for schedules) showing when and where soccer matches are being played can properly be subject to copyright. Meaning, of course, that if news outlets want to publish them, they’ll have to pay up. According to the AP, one of the judges explained the [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a lawyer in Chicago. Are there any conferences coming up that will educate me on the proper etiquette concerning how much to flaunt my "tramp stamp" tattoo? Answer: You should check out the Chicago Bar Association’s “What [...]

Yes, he’s still dead. But, unfortunately, so may be "the meme that will never die." I, embarrassingly, first discovered the Hitler "Downfall" meme a couple of months back when a Seattle DUI Law Firm adapted it as a promotional video. This week, in advance of what would have been Adolf’s 121st birthday yesterday, a whole [...]

Via FutureLawyer comes word of this class action (PDF), filed by a plaintiff in a lawsuit in Texas state court who doesn’t think the judge in that suit should have been able to order her to file all documents using LexisNexis’ File and Serve. As reported yesterday in Texas Lawyer, the court clerk in Montgomery [...]

The new law school rankings from U.S. News & World Report are out, and The Conglomerate blog has some step-by-step instructions on the "strict protocol" that must be observed by law professors who are roped into discussing these rankings at springtime cocktail parties, happy hours and receptions: Step 1: State: "Of course the rankings don’t [...]

This is the kind of story that normally wouldn’t require much comment. A man was arrested at a baseball game for allegedly sticking his fingers down his throat to make himself vomit. On an off-duty police captain. And his 11-year-old daughter. The puke attack was apparent retaliation for the guy’s friend having been ejected from [...]

Very, very high on the list of people or groups that you do not want to scorn should probably be the nation’s top plaintiffs lawyer group. You see, these people sue corporations for a living, day in and day out. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out what they’d do to a lender they [...]

This has all the hallmarks of a "Burning Legal Question," but sorry Bruce, I couldn’t wait. The 10th Circuit released an opinion (PDF) Monday affirming a district court’s ruling that a homeowner’s insurance policy, issued by Safeco Insurance Company of America, did not cover damages assessed in a wrongful death case against the insureds as [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a high school student at my first job fair. Quick question: Is it normal for police to use their stun gun on 30 students at the job fair if the kids volunteer to see "what it feels [...]

Five years of Blawg Review. What started as a "blog carnival" for everyone interested in law has grown into a community that comes together every week to review recent legal news, opinions, and commentary from an increasing number of remarkable law blogs. We owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who has participated in Blawg [...]

There are blawgs out there on everything from "Law and Magic" to "Mixed Martial Arts Law" so how can there not be a blawg about Tattoo Law? Is there not an ink-loving lawyer out there who will step up here? A post today on the Slaw blog notes that tattoo law jurisprudence continued to build [...]

Two weeks ago, we pointed out that the debate over the new healthcare law had resulted in some infighting, with several states’ governors on opposite sides of the issue from their own attorneys general. Gov. Jim Gibbons, of Nevada, really really didn’t like that AG Catherine Cortez Masto refused to sign onto the lawsuit challenging [...]

From the same profession that brought you the "fertile octogenarian" rule centuries ago comes a new one: the "dangerous quadriplegic" doctrine. Via Lowering the Bar, today I came across Martinez v. Board of Parole Hearings (PDF), an opinion issued yesterday by the Court of Appeal of the State of California, Third Appellate District. Martinez was [...]

On Friday, I posted about the rather elaborate (and well orchestrated) April Fools’ Day prank pulled by blawger Eric Turkewitz. I ended my post by saying that, as time went on, "it should be fun to find out who was in on the joke, and who was suckered." Now we know. Most of the law [...]

Last week’s episode of new ABC sitcom "Modern Family" took what seemed a story line about one of its main character’s love of gadgets and seemingly morphed it into a lengthy ad for Apple’s iPad. The episode aired shorty before the release of the iPad last week, and it raises an interesting question: Does the [...]

Yesterday, Eric Turkewitz, whose New York Personal Injury Blog is part of the Law.com Blog Network, made a pretty huge announcement. Namely, that he had been tapped as the first official White House law blogger. The "news" spread like wildfire. It was "picked up" by, among others, Above the Law and The New York Times. [...]