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Facebook threatens, but likely bluffing

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Facebook, it is reported, has threatened to sue employers that demand access to the usernames and passwords of employees or potential employees. Facebook would certainly have the financial wherewithal to intimidate smaller employees, but I would love to know, absent legislation, the nature of the legal theory on which they propose to rely. One suspects, […]

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A new argument against gerrymandering

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

This is interesting:   .. [I]n Illinois, the bipartisan League of Women Voters is challenging gerrymandered districts based on a new legal claim: that it violates free speech. While a district court already dismissed its claim, the League of Women Voters can—and has—appealed to the Supreme Court. Because it’s a redistricting case, the court will […]

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If you can pay, you get the megaphone

Monday, June 27, 2011

If you’re rich enough, you get to shout. Most politicized Supreme Court ever.

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It’s not judicial activism when they do it

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

I would very much like to know the legal basis upon which a Texas judge enjoined the City of San Antonio from naming a street after Cesar Chavez. Given the two hundred name changes that went unchallenged (according to the proponent of the name change), it’s hard to believe there’s some sort of statutory standard […]

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A certain asymmetry

Friday, May 20, 2011

Recently the Wall Street Journal ran an article about an Administrative Law Judge who grants nearly 100% of the claims before him. There was also an implication that he was able to steer cases from one particular lawyer to himself. Predictably, this has led to calls from Republicans for Congressional investigations into the entire disability […]

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Noted in passing

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

The Supreme Court legalizes fraud. I sorta predicted this one.

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A bit of good legal news

Monday, March 21, 2011

Some good news to partially offset the fact that this allegedly bankrupt country is now raining expensive missiles on yet another country, with no clear explanation of what we expect to accomplish or how we know we’ve done so. On Monday, a federal appeals court reinstated a key legal challenge to that surveillance: a lawsuit […]

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States rights vs Corporate Greed. The Supreme Court will decide.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Every once in a while a case comes along that reveals a lot about the Supreme Court’s priorities. Such a case was argued yesterday. The case pits states rights against corporate interest. Which will win? And should it even be close? The case involves a class action brought by a California couple who are suing […]

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Foley’s Legal Strategy Revealed?

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Not being an election law specialist, I have been somewhat at a loss to conceive of the legal strategy Foley is thinking of employing to get the results of the election reversed. However, I have, from a secret source from my many contacts in the upper echelons of the Republican party, come into possession (if […]

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Obama continues Bush’s assault on the law

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

The Constitution really is on life support. Citing the Obama administration’s evocation of the state secrets privilege, a divided federal appeals court agreed Wednesday to toss a lawsuit against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured. Ruling 6-5, a panel of the 9th […]

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