Archive for June, 2006
Supreme Court Rethinks Torture
The Supreme Court released it’s latest ruling on Guantanamo. Not a good day for Gonzales or Bush. The ruling is one of four that, in my view at least, repudiate the notion that the US Gov’t can arrest people indefinitely without a real trial and real trial means real - constitutionally valid - trial, even […]
Supreme Court Rethinks Obviousness
The Patently-O Patent Law Blog has a great analysis on the concept of obviousness that will be central in a patent case SCOTUS just agreed to hear - KSR v. Teleflex (Supreme Court 2006)
The doctrine of nonobviousness ensures that patent rights are not granted on inventions that are simply throw-away modifications of prior technology. […]
Underage teens aren’t the only ones who need protection on MySpace
Predators need protection too in this day and age. Two underage girls, 14 and 15 posed as 18 year old Natalia and arranged a tryst with the victim. When he arrived as arranged, they pulled a gun and robbed him.
via BoingBoing, Fox news story
MySpace the Gangsta Rap of 2006
MySpace has got to feel someone pinned a bullseye on their back on the issue of personal security on the web. The latest article from the NY Times - Young People’s Web Postings Worry Summer Camp Directors - is choc full of comments like these -
In addition, “We are asking local police enforcement for more […]
Blawgosphere: The Jurist
I just resubscribed to the Jurist RSS feed with a bit of trepidation. I can’t NOT read something I subscribe to. This is my own problem, I know. The Jurist is a phenomenal resource. The premise is simple. Hitch 30 law students up to your wagon and let them pull. The Jurist is essentially a […]
Other Internet Meanderings…
in which I link to other student blawgers who’s posts are much funnier than mine…
From Will Work for Favorable Dicta:
In other news, I’m seriously considering killing my office mate, who is, right this moment, SLURPING something (sssssssssssssssssslurp, sssssssssssssssssssslurp) and keeps furtively getting up and running in and out of the office, turning the computer on […]
MySpace Inadequate Protections Case
Here’s a case worth watching. Social networking website MySpace is being sued by a 14-year-old girl in Texas state court in Austin for failing to provide adequate protections against sexual assault.
I have to wonder how MySpace, aside from being an almost perfect target for this kind of suit (cash reserves + negative publicity on this […]
What’s a law degree worth?
By far the best thing about the WSJ law blog is the comments section, which today featured a lively debate on what a law degree is worth. There are of course any number of ways to measure that. The most useful is to ask, what is a law degree worth to me? as in what […]
Volunteer Guidance Counselors
As I mentioned yesterday, in What are you going to be when you grow up?, what kind of law I might practice someday is a frequent subject of conversation. Today this blawg’s loyal readers have turned up the following helpful suggestion - perhaps I could follow in the footsteps of Connecticut attorney Eugene Riccio whose […]
Ask not for whom the bell tolls…
It tolled for me.