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Criminal law, International, Media, Society, Torts April 18, 2009April 18, 2009

Second Autopsy Finds Ian Tomlinson Died Of Internal Bleeding, Not a Heart Attack — Attacking Officer is Now Under Investigation for Manslaughter

The English police have beens struggling to explain a video by an American businessman showing a police officer attacking 47-year-old…

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Academia, Constitutional Law, Media, Religion, Society April 17, 2009

Model Teacher: High School Coach Fired for Posing for Playboy

We have another teacher fired for her private lifestyle and activities. Carlie Beck was fired from her job as cheerleading…

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Constitutional Law, Criminal law, Media, Politics, Religion, Society, Torts April 13, 2009April 14, 2009

Baptist Church Accused of Using Florida Detective to Uncover and Identify Critical Blogger

Thomas A. Rich was an anonymous blogger on http://www.fbcjaxwatchdog.blogspot.com who complained to other parishioners about such things as First Baptist…

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Criminal law, International, Lawyering, Politics, Religion April 12, 2009

No Briefs, No Ruling: Law Student Strips in Protest of Ruling on Sale of Leavened Bread

Religious yeshiva student Aryeh Yerushalmi had a novel way of protesting a decision of an Israeli court to allow the…

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Academia, Bizarre, Columns, Constitutional Law, Courts, Criminal law, International, Justice, Lawyering, Media, Politics, Religion, Society, Supreme Court, Torts April 11, 2009April 12, 2009

International Blasphemy: The Free World Bars Free Speech

Here my column in Sunday’s Washington Post on the increasing prosecutions in the West for insulting religion. The rise of…

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Criminal law, International, Media, Military, Politics, Society April 10, 2009

Latest Weapon in The War On Terror: Manila Envelopes

Britain’s leading counterterrorism, Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick of the Metropolitan Police Department, has resigned after being photographed holding a classified…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society, Torts April 10, 2009

No Duty to Rescue Rule: Court Holds That New York Transit Workers Had No Obligation To Help Woman Being Raped in Station

Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the “no duty to rescue rule” that says that,…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society, Torts April 10, 2009

Legal Forecast: Overcast With a Chance of Falling Bodies

In the same week as a teenager who was injured at a mall by a falling suicide jumper, bodies are…

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Bizarre, Constitutional Law, Courts, International, Politics, Religion, Society April 9, 2009

Egyptian Court Bans Literature Journal For Publishing Blasphemous Poem

A respected literature journal, Ibdaa (or Creativity) has been banned by an Egyptian court for publishing blasphemous poem by poet…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society April 9, 2009

Oly Ivy: Texas Sheriff Arrested After Allegedly Tasering His Wife

Oly Yahnson Ivy, 30, the chief of police of Oakwood, Texas, has been arrested for aggravated assault in the use…

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Courts, Society, Torts April 8, 2009April 8, 2009

Tarasoff Revisited: Federal Court Rules That Hospitals May Be Liable for a Murder Committed By a Former Mental Patient

There is an interesting case in Detroit on the liability of hospitals for the actions of third parties — a…

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Bizarre, Criminal law, Society April 8, 2009

Stoned Crabbe: Actor Found Harry Potter Series Arrested for Pot Farm

Vincent Crabbe already had a poor reputation as a member of Sytherian House at Hogwarts and a thuggish sidetick to…

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Bizarre, Society, Torts April 6, 2009April 6, 2009

Elementary Teacher Sues Eight-Year-Old Boy For Running Recklessly for Ice Cream

Rosanna Tomack, a former New York teacher’s aide, is suing a student from her Queens grammar school for running into…

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Bizarre, Politics, Society April 5, 2009April 5, 2009

Small Town Valuables: Sarah Palin’s Sister-in-Law Arrested for Burglary — As Tabloid Show Prepares Segment on Family

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is having a particularly difficult time going national with her small town and family values theme…

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Criminal law, Society April 2, 2009April 2, 2009

Dallas Officer Resigns in Controversy Over Blocking NFL Player Ryan Moats From Seeing Dying Mother-in-Law

Dallas Police Officer Robert Powell, who delayed NFL player Ryan Moats from seeing his dying mother-in-law, has resigned from the…

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