In a post today on his SPAM NOTES blog, Venkat Balasubramani offers a "Law Blogging FAQ." Venkat provides some useful pointers in the post, which I recommend to lawyers who are considering starting a blog. One of the FAQs relates to the question of whether it is necessary to have a disclaimer on your law [...]

This is the kind of news I miss, not living in New York anymore. Last Wednesday, the Lincoln Tunnel was shut down for 45 minutes because of what they like to refer to as "police activity." NBC News (via Lowering the Bar) has the fantastic details on this activity. It seems a dance troupe from [...]

Via Al Nye the Lawyer Guy, I was pointed to an Associated Press article about a Connecticut court offering counseling to jurors who had served in a particularly horrifying home invasion trial. The article describes the nightmares experienced by one of the jurors after hearing testimony — and seeing photos — in the trial of [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: So, what was it? Was "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" a "sequel" or a "spinoff?" Answer: We still don’t know. The judge ruled yesterday that Michael Douglas’ ex-wife filed her lawsuit alleging a right to money from any [...]

LBW readers already know that in November 2009, the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia decreed that the "Happy Gilmore" golf shot is a breach of the standard of care required of a golfer playing on a course with other golfers. But the Happy Gilmore ruling is just one in the long string of issues that [...]

Pervy neighbors all across the country might well have University of North Carolina 2L Ashley Dean in their crosshairs today. Yesterday, on the blog of the school’s Journal of Law and Technology, Dean warned of the coming plague of drones operated by private citizens, and suggested that lawmakers might want to get out in front [...]

Here’s a shocker: According to Rick Hasen’s Election Law blog, Joe Miller, Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Alaska, filed suit yesterday against the state’s Division of Elections, complaining about the proposed process for counting write-in votes. The counting will begin today, unless the federal district court says otherwise. Miller doesn’t like the state’s [...]

I have no idea what’s going on down in D.C. today. There are plenty of other sites you can read if you’re really interested in that. But I did happen to notice what’s on the agenda for the esteemed justices (or lords, or whatever they’re called; all I know is they still dress funny in [...]

An interesting complaint has been filed by the National Labor Relations Board against an ambulance company that fired an employee for complaining about her boss on Facebook. The company, American Medical Response, has a policy prohibiting employees "from making disparaging, discriminatory or defamatory comments" about the company, superiors, co-workers or competitors, the Hartford Courant reports. [...]

The practice of criminal law is, on average, more interesting than most civil work. So when I’m cruising around the legal blogosphere, fulfilling my LBW duties, I am often drawn to the musings of fellow bloggers who live and work in the criminal law world. This morning, I happened upon a post by Russ Bensing [...]

As I wrote here, I admittedly have a weakness for stories where a corporation rolls out its ultimate "death penalty" punishment on a customer: "You can never come here [buy here] [eat here] again!!" So you can imagine my keen interest in the story of Karen Young, who was banned by Facebook from, um, Facebooking, [...]

Yes, it’s Election Day. I alluded to it in my earlier, largely off-topic, post about New York’s 311 data. But I can’t end the day without talking explicitly about some aspect of the whole "participatory democracy" thing. The WSJ Law Blog had a good roundup of election issues this morning, and Above the Law has [...]

Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, has an interesting account of his recent journey through a security check point last week at Baltimore-Washington International. Goldberg learned first-hand that the Transportation Security Administration has mandated new pat-down techniques for people who opt out of the "back-scatter body imaging device, which allows the agency’s security [...]