I was on NPR's Science Friday show this week, yapping about how lawyers are using Facebook profile information as evidence (summary: we use it all the time, if it might be relevant), and one of the topics we discussed is…
Techdirt reported recently that a politician in Argentina who introduced an anti-plagiarism bill has come under fire for apparently copying some of the language he used without crediting the source, a practice some have called "plagiarism." The language of the…
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I'm sure this isn't a new thing, but it's the first time I've seen it, especially in parody-logo form, and I am finding it hilariously funny. I have stolen it (fair use!) from Eric Turkewitz's New York Personal Injury Law…
On Friday, lawyers for KISS member Gene Simmons filed a complaint seeking a declaration that Simmons did not assault a woman during a visit to ESPN Studios last year, as she has claimed. Simmons argues that it is "implausible if…
Love him or hate him, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is a reasonably funny guy. (I'm not going beyond "reasonably funny" until somebody apologizes for "Batman & Robin.") It could just be that he has good writers working for him now (unlike,…
When your legislators really care about democracy, it shows. In the U.S., most speeches are made to a C-SPAN camera in an otherwise empty room, and almost nobody watches. In other countries, they feel strongly enough to get involved in…
Here's one I drafted last summer but, for some reason, never got around to posting. It still seems worth mentioning, though, because of the remarkable defense argument involved. In July 2009, 30-year-old Sultan al-Sayed was sentenced to nine weeks in…
How many reasons do you need to not work 10 or more hours a day? How about one death-related reason? In a study published in the European Heart Journal this week, British researchers who conducted an 11-year study of 6,000 civil…
In a lawsuit filed in New York on April 26, Gary Null alleges that he became severely ill after eating a dietary supplement that caused him to develop a number of painful symptoms. In fact, Gary Null alleges, "Gary Null's…