Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m broke but I want some property to call my own. Where can I get some free land? Answer: Try Marquette and Atwood, Kan.; Elwood, Neb.; Marne, Iowa; Muskegon, Mich.; or Camden, Maine. They’re giving it away! (Curbly, [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: Why does retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor keep calling my home at 1:00 in the morning? Stop it, Sandy!! Answer: The Nevadans for Qualified Judges would like to apologize to you for a "snafu of [...]

I’ve been around long enough that I remember the days when saying "I have a Mac at home, can I check my email remotely?" to your firm IT guy would result in ridicule, at best, and at worst possibly a maliciously delivered Trojan Horse virus eating up your draft summary judgment brief the day before [...]

Miami lawyers, move on up to the edge of your seats. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida has unveiled its new and improved website. I must admit that I was not all that familiar with the old version, so I’m largely taking on faith the opinion of David Oscar Markus at [...]

As with the Hitler video meme, I am, embarrassingly, behind the times regarding the animated videos any old schlub can make using xtranormal. Witness my post last week re: "So You Want to Go to Law School." But I’m trying to catch up. And thanks to D.A. Confidential, I’m now in the loop on the [...]

You thought your 2009 law firm holiday party at the Marriott was great because you got three free drink tickets and the DJ played "Thriller" at your request? But you don’t work at The Lanier Law Firm, which has taken the law firm holiday party to the next level. In 2008, The Lanier Law Firm’s [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a political candidiate and I’m headed into an important debate. Can you give me a quick primer on the separation of church and state? Answer: I’m sorry, I don’t have time for that right now. But don’t [...]

Yesterday we reported on the suit filed by the family of a kid who claimed to have been injured by hot sauce that was too hot at a Tennessee Steak ‘N Shake. In coming up with other examples of suits against restaurant chains for food-related injuries and distress, I purposefully omitted the most well-known variety: [...]

So I’m not sure I’m gonna get a lot of votes in this one, but on my way to the office this morning, I heard Aaron Watson’s "Off the Record" on the radio. Here, enjoy the live version: Country music is rife with songs about divorce and the like; see here for a nice rundown. [...]

Please allow me to present Exhibit A from the "Why do debt collectors get a bad rap?" file. From Evan Brown’s Internet Cases blog, I learned of the recent opinion in Sohns v. Bramacint, out of the District of Minnesota. Cases in which a plaintiff alleges that a debt collection agency violated the Fair Debt [...]

Via the Meeting the Sin Laws blog, I learned of a woman named Linda Gasses who was convicted and fined $150 under a local ordinance by the City of Riverdale, Ga., for refusing to cut her grass. Rather than break out the lawn mower, however, Gasses elected to take her version of a "you can’t [...]

Sometimes judicial ethics opinions deal with interesting, cutting edge topics. And sometimes, they come out of South Carolina. Via the Legal Profession Blog, comes this gem from the state Advisory Committee on Standards of Judicial Conduct. The opinion is concise, at four paragraphs, yet I’m not entirely sure I grasp the situation (typos aside). It [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: A car just knocked me off my bike, then kept driving and dragged my bike two kilometers down the road! What’s up with that? Answer: Perhaps the driver thought you were a tree branch? (FAIL Blog, Excuse Fail) [...]

"Exposes" of the subprime mortgage industry have been done before. But Public Citizen’s Consumer Law & Policy Blog posted yesterday about a new book being released in a couple of weeks that sounds particularly juicy. And nauseating. The book is Michael W. Hudson’s "The Monster: How a Gang of Predatory Lenders and Wall Street Bankers [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a lawyer. I haven’t recited the Pledge of Allegiance since elementary school and now the judge in a case I’m handling is demanding that we all stand up and say the Pledge in his courtroom? What can [...]

Talk about bad luck. There you are, just trying to supplement your meager civil servant’s salary by doing a little moonlighting, and you have to go and choose a "business partner" who isn’t who he says he is, ruining your whole plan. That is — sort of — what happened to two Philadelphia police officers [...]

What’s worse than lying about having cancer, which I discussed here last week? Not much, but how about lying about your healthy 12-year-old son having cancer? Prosecutors allege that Carol Lynn Schnuphase, an unemployed mother in Detroit, went so far as to drug her child to make him act lethargic and shave his head and [...]

Famous (and controversial) lawyer Gloria Allred has been in the news most recently for her representation of Nicky Diaz Santillan, a former housekeeper of former EBay CEO, and current candidate for Governor of California, Meg Whitman. Diaz claims to have been "emotionally and financially abused" by Whitman during her tenure, and disputes Whitman’s claims that [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: It is a gorgeous day and we are going to do some jetskiiing on the lake. Is there anything we should watch out for? Answer: Beware of lake pirates. No, seriously. (Turley, Lake Pirates? Texan Killed on Border [...]

OK, so I’m being a little snarky. But it’s Friday, forgive me. According to this AP report, the Senate passed a bill Wednesday to regulate the volume of television commercials. In another example of astonishingly hokey acronym use, the bill is known as the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act, or "CALM." Sigh. The vote was [...]