http://www.legalreader.com/ Commentary on law, politics, and everything else that matters. en-us justinian@justinian.us 2010-03-14T16:17:01-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004009.html I suspect this is going to end up on many final exams in Con Law next year… JACKSON, Miss. -- An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to... 4009@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2010-03-14T16:17:01-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004008.html 4008@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2010-02-23T14:08:51-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004007.html 4007@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2010-02-19T22:41:28-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004006.html Personally, I’d love to read a lawsuit in which a plaintiff alleged he or she wasn’t hired for being a dick or a douchebag.  As DICE is a business conference, Pitchford was also quite open about what's important to Gearbox... 4006@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2010-02-19T15:54:56-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004005.html Are you too busy litigating to run your own blog, but you’d still like to write a blog post now and again?  Then get in contact with me.  I’m about to launch a blog written by and for litigators.  Lawyers... 4005@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2010-02-16T23:00:37-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004004.html 4004@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2010-02-16T13:22:49-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004003.html Apparently, Wyeth is asking a federal judge to order attorneys to remove this video from YouTube.  After watching the video, I can see why Wyeth has its knickers in a twist: Kudos to the attorneys who produced this video.  It’s... 4003@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-12-17T11:36:37-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004002.html In this six years I’ve been blogging about the civil justice system, I’ve never written a post that has generated so much discussion in the blogosphere.  Apparently, I tapped into a vein of hostility towards self-described social media experts.  Here’s... 4002@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-12-11T15:47:04-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004001.html Nesson may be a brilliant Harvard law professor, but it appears that he’s a piss-poor lawyer.  Keep this in mind if you ever consider hiring a law professor to represent you in a case.   That was the backdrop, but when... 4001@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-12-09T14:58:51-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/004000.html 4000@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-12-09T14:55:09-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003999.html That and other particularly interesting bits of information are available at the link below.  Maybe we are living in a surveillance state… Cox Communications, the third largest cable provider in the United States, is the only company I've found that... 3999@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-12-03T10:56:17-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003998.html 3998@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-12-01T18:46:43-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003997.html If you don’t support gay marriage, that’s fine.  But don’t lie and say you oppose it because you want to protect marriage.  If you really want to protect marriage, you’d be all over this attempt to ban divorce: In a... 3997@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-12-01T11:07:18-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003996.html I’d have bought at least two of these.  I sincerely hope that Arrington and the rest of the Crunch boys sue the “shareholders” into oblivion. It was so close I could taste it. Two weeks ago we were ready to... 3996@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-11-30T14:09:34-05:00 http://www.legalreader.com/archives/003995.html Reading this article, I got the feeling that the bank wasn’t interested in working with the court, but instead wanted to have things done its way.  Looks like the bank learned that the Judge is the boss. The judge concluded... 3995@http://www.legalreader.com/ 2009-11-27T14:44:32-05:00