Aside: I once ...<< MORE >>
Naturally, the day after my post about removing an old
post so that a person isn't forever tainted by his worst experience, Walter Olson twits about
the European Commission being set to adopt "formal rules" to create a "right to be forgotten" on the internet.
From Adam Thierer at the Technology Liberation Front:
According to the BBC, the European Commission is apparently set to adopt formal rules guaranteeing a ...<< MORE >>
There are things he says (and he's written) that strike me as accurate, and things that strike me as just plain wrong, as interpreted from the outside without much ...
<< MORE >><< MORE >>Following on the heels of a scathing Justice Department report in December that found the East Haven police had engaged in widespread “biased policing, unconstitutional searches and ...
The Scalia opinion had the support ...<< MORE >>
Mentoring has become one of those buzz words in social media that is used to make stupid people stupider. Wrap up interaction in the mentoring box,
tie a pretty ribbon on it, and pretend that the desperate search for validation on the internet is a substitute.
A while back, Venkat Balasubramani noted the "Cult of Positivity" on twitter, where being nice to people
you don't know was repaid by their being nice in return.
And half a century later, the New York Police Department is nearly ...
<< MORE >>—tasing a pregnant woman three times in about 42 seconds after she refused to sign a speeding ticket and get out of her car—
<< MORE >>Hipscher was accused in July 2009 of ...
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<< MORE >>It’s become the legal and philosophical debate in the digital age of journalism: Does a blogger have the same legal ...
<< MORE >>To Eugene J. O’Donnell, a professor of police studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the case underscores how officers sometimes struggle to articulate nuances in the laws they must apply.
Law enforcement, Professor O’Donnell said, “demands that you know the ...
The ABA Blawg 100 crowned a new Best Blawg in criminal law, and the honor goes to
Jamison Koehler and his modestly named Koehler Law Blog. While the competition may not be my cup of tea, that doesn't mean that winning isn't
a significant achievement, and reflects the respect and dedication of readers. Jamison has attained that respect and earned the prize.
Jamison, a former Philadelphia public defender, struck ...
Let me begin with the angry deniers. For my part, I do not believe that law professors and law schools do themselves any favors, in an age of indebted students, unemployed law school graduates, and laid-off lawyers, to trash these criticisms as a "hatchet job" or (better ...<< MORE >>
With turmoil aplenty in the blawgosphere over the past week, stemming from the discovery of settling Rakofsky v. Internet defendants Lori Palmieri and Martha Sperry, and from there flowing downhill at a remarkable and disturbing pace. No need to discuss the harm done to ...
<< MORE >>The U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division has urged a federal court to side with ...<< MORE >>
<< MORE >>Why is unreliable eyewitness identification any different from unreliable anything else?—Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, at oral argument in Perry v. New Hampshire,
Yet again, Justice Scalia says what needs to be said, clearly and decisively. Why indeed? Of the many burdens placed on ...
In the early days of my career as a lawyer, I spent a lot of time in the 34 Precinct. The cops had a curious relationship with the residents, where everyone was a perp. Eventually. Things have
quieted down quite a bit since then, after the crack days of cold bodies appearing in the park every morning, but it apparently hasn't done much to change the attitude.
Via Jim Dwyer at the Times, a Christmas tourist,
Aaron Vansintjan, from Belgium by way of McGill University in Montreal, wanted only to meet his friends at ...
But the gist is that a veteran who apparently grew marijuana to self-medicate for anxiety and depression apparently shot and killed one cop and wounded several others during a nighttime raid on his home. This is the same narcotics task force, by the way, that shot and killed a man wielding a ...<< MORE >>
In the New York Times, Lakhdar Boumediene tells of the seven years he lost in Guantánamo for nothing.
In a decision that bears my name, the Supreme Court declared that “the laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times.” It ruled that prisoners like me, no matter how serious the accusations, have a right to a day in court. The Supreme Court recognized a basic truth: the government makes ...<< MORE >>
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The reaction to a headline of police killing a middle school students is visceral. No reasonable person reacts well to a child being shot dead. But
it isn't always that simple.
In Brownsville, Texas, police shot and killed Jaime Gonzalez.
<< MORE >>Police shot and killed an eighth-grader in the hallway of his middle school Wednesday after the boy brandished what looked like a handgun and pointed it at officers. It turned out to be ...
I’m going to let you in on a secret. Those of us who guest blog here measure our success by one criterion alone: whether we get the mainstays of the Prawfs family to comment on our posts. Only when ...<< MORE >>
But yesterday, the first day back for most lawyers, brought out the rash of shit that is the failed and former lawyers, and those with no business advising anyone in the legal profession, going on and on about why lawyers need to “get on board,” with social media and shiny toys. It was like they were holding their breath for ...<< MORE >>
<< MORE >>About 40,000 state laws taking effect at the start of the new year will change rules about getting abortions in New Hampshire, learning about gays and lesbians in California, getting jobs in Alabama and even driving golf carts in Georgia.
Many laws reflect the nation's concerns over immigration, the cost of government and the best way to protect ...
<< MORE >>President Obama today signed into the National Defense Authorization ...
"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
Put less mathematically, it means:
Godwin observed that, given enough time, in any ...<< MORE >>
Zero tolerance + anti-bullying backlash + Internet = Criminal charges for an innocuous Facebook post.Via Tampa Bay Fox,
<< MORE >>Allie Scott is a junior at Osceola High School. The 16 year old says it ...