You might think that after Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8, Volume 9, Volume 10, Volume 11, Volume 12, Volume 13 and Volume 14 of Things You Can’t Do on a Plane, that we’d have exhausted the list of things you can’t do on a [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m the pastor of a church. Last year we blessed a local highway by placing holy oil on it. But this week, a group of atheists that did not like the fact that we blessed the highway went [...]

Today on the Blonde Justice blog, Elle Woods (or whoever writes the anonymous Blonde Justice blog) addresses an issue that happens every day, so let’s deal with it. The police come to your house or a detective calls you into the police station, and they show you a photo. It’s a photo of you, but [...]

Almost two years ago I wrote here about the concept of the "digital afterlife," and what people who devote time, energy and money to their "digital selves" can do to plan for the time when they are dead and gone. That post referenced blogs and other online assets, but did not consider one digital asset [...]

Anti-abortion and anti-contraception laws in several states have been in the news recently and over the past few years. Just last month in Virginia, for example, state legislators debated a bill that would have required women to undergo an invasive "transvaginal ultrasound" in order to give informed consent for an abortion. TPM reports that Virginia [...]

My ill-informed impression following the uproar and various prosecutions that followed Dr. Jack Kevorkian during his life was that physician-assisted suicide is illegal throughout the United States. It turns out that is not true at all, as I learned today that physician-assisted suicide is currently legal in three states. Who knew? According to The Associated [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: I’m a plaintiffs lawyer. Everyone calls me the Gorilla because I’m so tough and powerful in court. Can I get "Injured? Get the Gorilla" trademarked for my law practice? Answer: Already taken, sorry. (Tex Parte Blog, "Get the [...]

You might think that after Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8, Volume 9, Volume 10, Volume 11, Volume 12 and Volume 13 of Things You Can’t Do on a Plane, that we’d have exhausted the list of things you can’t do on a plane. Nope! [...]

Back in my day, women took birth control pills and the pills worked and they didn’t get pregnant. Simple, right? So what is going on lately in the birth control pill industry that is causing various lots of pills to be recalled every few months? Oddly enough, it seems like the pills themselves are usually [...]

Attention all you people who think you are going to just walk, bike or drive on in to the Plantation Mobile Home Park in West Palm Beach, Fla., and hook up with some mobile home prostitutes: the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office has other plans for you! The Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office announced that on March [...]

There has been a decent amount written about jurors’ use of Twitter in courts, and also about whether journalists should be allowed to report from the courtroom using Twitter. I have seen much less, however, about the use of Twitter by courts themselves. Earlier this week, David Bilinsky wrote at Slaw that the Courts of [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: My employer wanted to perform a routine drug test on me. For some unknown reason the drug test guy kept showing up at my mom’s house to try to perform the test, where of course I was not [...]

Welcome back to Judge Carton Rules, where a fake judge issues rulings to spare the parties to cases in which the outcomes are obvious the time and expense of further litigation. There is just one case (via South Florida Lawyers) on today’s docket. We’ll hear now from counsel for the the plaintiff: Plaintiffs Counsel: My [...]

In recent years there has been no shortage of blog posts, articles, Twitter tweets and now probably "Pinterest pins" (is that a real phrase?) telling lawyers that blogging is not going to get them clients or otherwise be their ticket to fame and fortune. Do it because you like to write, many lawyers and bloggers [...]

Last week, Bloomberg Law put together an interesting series of video clips in an effort to collect the "10 funniest, most moving, or most inspiring legal movie lines." The full video ("The 10 Greatest Legal Movie Lines") is below, and it is a lot of fun to watch. The Bloomberg Law editors hit on several [...]

If there is one thing that legal blog watching has taught me, it is that a suspect’s baggy pants are a policeman’s best friend. Indeed, back in 2010 when I used to cover the baggy pants beat for Legal Blog Watch, I observed no fewer than three cases in a 12-month span where criminal plots [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: My stupid uncle is posting awkward photos of me on Facebook from when I was kid, like shots of me posing in front of a Christmas tree. Can I get a restraining order to stop this evil man? [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: We are in Los Angeles for the day and we’re at the beach tossing the football. Why is this police officer looking at us so menacingly? Answer: Sorry but it is now prohibited for "any person to cast, [...]

Here are today’s three burning legal questions, along with the answers provided by the blogosphere. 1) Question: The judge hearing the domestic violence case against me just ordered me to get my wife some flowers, get dressed up, pick up my wife, take her to Red Lobster and then go bowling with her! Can he [...]

I spend a lot of time in the world of securities litigation and SEC enforcement. One of the best bloggers in that corner of the blawgosphere is Kevin LaCroix, the author since 2006 of an excellent blog called The D&O Diary. Today, Kevin wrote about developments in a case brought by the Federal Deposit Insurance [...]