Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Is there a speed limit for skateboarders in New Zealand? I could use a quick answer on this, as I am about to pass a truck. Answer: Slower than you are going, mate! (YouTube, Longboarding the Bombay Hills, [...]

No, it’s not exactly seasonally appropriate, but when you come across one of those "Really? That’s a law?" laws, sometimes you can’t help but talk about it. Via Legal Juice, a link to Section 10-4 of the Municipal Code of Center Line, Mich.: Sec. 10-4. Artificially coloring birds. It shall be unlawful for any person [...]

Via Wendy Reynolds on the Slaw.ca blog I stumbled upon this gem of a video by attorney Paul Pearson of the Canadian law firm Mulligan Tam Pearson. The video is Pearson’s audition tape to appear on a reality TV show called "Wipeout" (although Reynolds speculates that it may be secretly be a "brilliant bit of [...]

Earlier this month, Portland, Ore. web developer Think Brilliant filed a lawsuit (.pdf) in federal court against "The Office" TV star Rainn Wilson, alleging that Wilson failed to grant Think Brilliant an ownership interest in his SoulPancake company and affiliated website, as promised in return for Think Brilliant’s services. Apparently, Wilson has fired back, filing [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: This guy just approached me and asked, "Do you bang?" Huh? What is the right answer to this question –Yes? No? Answer: Neither. Run! (California Appellate Report, Davis v. Superior Court (Cal. Ct. App. - July 22, 2010) [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I was on a flight from the U.S. to Australia when a three-year-old boy next to me let loose a deafening scream that would make your ears bleed. No, for real–blood erupted from my ears and now I’m [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I just robbed a bank using nothing but a bouquet of flowers. Prior to that heist I robbed a different bank with just a potted plant. I rule! Can I get a shout-out in your next update to [...]

A quick pop quiz for the men before you all head out to the bars this weekend … which of the following pick-up lines may land you in prison for rape if it results in you sleeping with a woman? (a) "Hey, baby, I’m just back from the war. Want to go home with a [...]

By now, the Old Spice ads featuring the "I’m on a horse" guy have surpassed viral and become positively bacterial. (I just made that up. Let’s see if it catches on.) In the past week or so, Old Spice Guy (real name Isaiah Mustafa) has been trading personalized towel-clad videos with no lesser a celebrity [...]

This morning at the Delaware Employment Law Blog, Molly DiBianca suggests that, though it’s not required, businesses that plan to snoop on job applicants via the Internet disclose their intent to do so. And if you’re looking for vague language to accomplish that disclosure, DiBianca suggests taking a page from the federal government’s book. She [...]

Today at Lawyerist, Randall Ryder touts a smartphone application for all the "crackberry" (is there a similar nickname for iPhones?) addicts out there who don’t want to run afoul of the no-texting-while-driving laws and/or meet their demise in a fiery crash. The app is called Drive.Safe.ly, and while Ryder doesn’t appear to have tested it [...]

It’s been a while since we welcomed a newcomer to the blawgosphere. So, though we were scooped by the Law Librarian Blog and 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, it seems worthwhile to note that West’s (in)famous reference attorneys have started their own blog. It’s expressly geared toward summer associates, so I wonder whether it [...]

The South Florida Lawyers blog jokes that down in Coral Gables, Fla., "women and their narcissistic, ill-timed ‘birthing’ obsessions" are now starting to impact important things in life, such as deposition dates. In Plaintiff’s Emergency Motion for Protective Order filed yesterday, attorney Joe Klock advised the court that today, July 14, "the deposition of Mr. [...]

The following video of a police officer threatening to arrest a protester at the G20 summit in Toronto for blowing bubbles, and that same protester subsequently being handcuffed and thrown in the back of a paddy wagon, has been posted all over the internet: I first found it at Law is Cool. Scott Greenfield has [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: We’re about to get the annual chicken hot wing-eating contest underway! Can you point me to a hot wing-eating disclaimer for contestants? Answer: Can’t vouch for it but here’s one from the Grille 33 Challenge. At least it [...]

Being able to identify with your constituents is, no doubt, the key to political longevity. Perhaps that’s what motivated Texas state Sen. John Whitmire to suggest the repeal of the Driver Responsibility Program, under which the state imposes a $1,000 per year surcharge for three years on first-time DWI offenders. Whitmire, who chairs the Criminal [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a deputy at the county jail. I’m thinking of partaking in some, shall we say, "controlled substances" before I leave work today. What’s the worst that could happen? Answer: Well, you could lose control of your vehicle [...]

At PrawfsBlawg (which hurts a little to type), Eric Johnson has begun accepting "nominations" for a poll to be administered to law professors, which will — "scientifically," he says — determine their all-time favorite television show. It seems there are no restrictions; it’s a free-for-all to suggest the choices to be presented to poll respondents [...]

In 1987, Michael Douglas starred as Gordon Gekko in the famous film "Wall Street." Twenty-three years later, Douglas is starring in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," which follows Gekko after his release from prison after serving time for the insider trading that occurred in the first movie ("Blue Horseshoe Loves Anacott Steel!"). In the decades [...]

The early returns on one of the first law firm iPhone apps are in, with law firm Morrison & Foerster reporting that it is getting strong positive feedback from clients on the still-novel initiative. As previously noted by Bob Ambrogi on his LawSites blog, MoFo launched an iPhone app ("MoFo2Go") in March that provides information [...]