Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 16, 2012: Chief Justices of BC’s Three Courts Issue Joint Statement on Judicial Independence Bill C-377 – Crippling Canadian Unions Is Facebook part of your estate? States weigh laws to govern social media – Washington Post
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Ides of March, 2012 #nlpoli
Twitter is a wonderful thing except that sometimes you can’t use the whole of a great quote. The following is a larger bit of one quote that turned up in a minor flurry on the Ides of March. It was hardly a Shakespeare smack down but it was fun for
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 15, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 15, 2012: Racial profiling finding against Toronto police upheld on appeal Judge deals death blow to copyright troll Righthaven Legal Aid in Canada: Resource and Caseload Statistics Federal jury rules against Portland police in Tasing of
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 14, 2012: Jury Foreman Is Fined $500 for Online Sentencing Research; Judge Calls for Revised Model Instruction How to Use Pinterest without Breaking the Law Celeb chef Mario Batali to pay $5.25 Million in class action
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, March 13, 2012: The U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Out! Dick Cheney cancels Toronto trip, says Canada is too dangerous Florida ethics committee rules no proscription against judges blogging. Yahoo sues Facebook over patent infringement –
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, March 12, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines for Monday, March 12, 2012 from Wise Law on Twitter: Ohio bill requires sex therapy, cardiac stress test and notarized affidavit of impotency for Viagra script Supreme Court to look at ‘jury vetting’ – Globe and Mail Parties unnamed in BC ruling: Lawyer can’t
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCalls – Another robocall from Guelph Appears
** I wrote the first part of this blog post a couple days ago, and the story is very significantly updated, so I felt it should get the full attention of readers so they have better context for what the Prescott tweets from the other day probably meant. ** There
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Friday, March 9, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 9, 2012: Toronto to look at expanding outdoor smoking ban now aimed at playgrounds Judge orders NYC Fire Dept. to hire 293 minority applicants Judge Stops Implementation of Wisconsin Voter ID Law Whitney Houston’s lawyer says
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon – Black Knight Winning
Why do reasonable people consider that only supporters of Conservatives were responsible for the illegal robocalls? It’s because of evidence like this: ““Last week I was contacted by a voter who told me she received two calls during the election campaign. The first call was a live call asking her
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Thursday, March 8, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, March 8th, 2012: Why lawyers will love the third generation iPad Age Discrimination at New York Law Firms Law Society Regulatory Proceedings for February 2012 – MarketWatch Canadian Bar Ass’n’s position on copyright bill creates a rift
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, March 7, 2012: The Myth of Due Diligence by Lawyers in the Cloud Master MacLeod Discusses Appropriate Procedure In Undertakings Motions Mean Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio) loses GOP primary; Joe the Plumber wins; and Romney still limping along
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: #Robocall Movies: Canadian Political Humor Par Excellence
Canadian politics in the age of Stephen Harper and the Conservative majority government are depressing, to say the least. Luckily our political satire still kicks ass. Inspired by the unraveling Robo-calls scandal, a sample: [View …Read More
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, March 6, 2012 (Toronto’s 178th Birthday!): Federal Judge Says Gun Owners Need Not Provide ‘Good Reason,’ Rules Maryland Gun Law Unconstitutional Ontario fertility raid linked to US ‘baby-selling’ scandal – National Post Why Does Everyone Hate Jury
Continue readingTrashy's World: Using FB and Twitter…
…seems to be becoming popular as direct lines to an omnipotent, omnipresent being. And I’m getting quite bored with it all. Specifically, I’ve had quite enough of Facebook updates, Twitter tweets that go something like this: “I know 99% of my friends won’t re-post this, but please do if you
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Monday, March 5, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, March 5th, 2012: Sh*t Law Students Say Discrimination must be proved, not simply assumed – Troy Media (blog) Man in charge of BC justice reform says frustration is evident in system – Winnipeg Free Press Racist-joke judge
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: RoboCon: Pierre Poutine Recording, Production Order Warrant for RackNine, CPC Payments
– @TheGorryDetails: I agree with Stephen [Taylor], where is the hard evidence? audio tapes, billing info? – kady o’malley @kady: Requires production orders. I hope you can use this post as a reference in the future, for source documents (and more) listed in the title. Audio of Poutine’s recording
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for March 2, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, March 2, 2012. There was no post yesterday as I was quite ill! I hope you will enjoy today’s. Quebec man sues for ownership of most of solar system | London Free Press Former Liberal MP in
Continue readingTHE FIFTH COLUMN: Facebook is NOT The Internet – The Internet IS The (Social) Network
In the beginning there were BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems). In a foreshadowing of things to come, almost immediately following the invention of the Personal Computer (PC) they became communications devices as BBS systems were set up for hobbyists to use to share information and home-written programs. At this time PC
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Here are the leading legal headline from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, February 29, 2012: Court clarifies conduct of lawyers for Bertuzzi, Canucks – Globe and Mail Ex-wrestler sues over losing testicle in match Toronto shopkeeper pushes for new citizen’s arrest legislation – Sun News Network Toronto-based TD Bank
Continue readingWise Law Blog: 140 Law – Legal Headlines for Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, February 28, 2012: Canada’s copyright bill: Changes urged as hearings begin Law Commission of Ontario calls for evaluation of family law information centres- Canadian Lawyer Magazine BP oil spill trial postponed to allow more time for settlement
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