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Harris County Jail dot com
The Houston Chronicle’s Web site offers future inmates a look at Harris lockup (archive) noted a new website, harriscojail.com.
The site, which is not affiliated with Harris County or the Jail in any way, offers information and advice from those having had the pleasure of past experience in Harris County lock up. The site is part […]
Texas State Legislature so Collegial They Let Each Other Cast their Ballots, How Heart-Warming
Austin’s KEYE-TV exposes what may euphemistically be termed the ‘lax’ voting procedure of the Texas legislature, or if you were to apply the rules those same legislators propose for the rest of us - intentional, widespread voting fraud.
These same legislators presumably learned a little about the notion of ‘one person, one vote’ during our little […]
Utah Legislators Ban Keyword Ads for Trademarked Phrases
Utah seems to be having a Ted Stevens moment. It’s legislature just passed the Trademark Protection Act which “establishes a new type of mark, called an electronic registration mark, that may not be used to trigger advertising for a competitor and creates a database for use in administering marks.”
For now I’ll leave aside the […]
Unintended Consequences in the Legal System
Slate’s Jack Shaffer has a great article on the darker side of the recent popularity of registration of convicted offenders for certain crimes. Sex offender registries are the most prevalent example. Worried mothers and vigilante mobs both like to know where convicted sex offenders are living. There is a plausible argument that that knowledge helps […]