Blawg Review #175
Blawg Review #175
Labor Day. A day off for working citizens. The end ofsummer and the beginning of fall. Still the start of thefootball flavour and in decades past the last day beforeswim. Barbeque. Fireworks. The whole nine yards.
After my lastBlawg Reviewthe anonymous editor assigned me this particularslot for my next BR. Which of the above listed associationswith Labor Day could have been his explanation?
Maybe he thought I’d follow agreat American tradition of the work day… display uplate? (This Blawg Review is being posted well after the timeof day deadline – sorry about that.)
Or did he know that when I’masked what I judge in, the litany often includes “I’mfor labor over capital”?
Ah, wait a minute. I’vegot it. Perhaps our dear ‘Ed.’ has a slightly offcenter sense of bodily fluid. He’s given me this timeperiod’s assignment because I’m aDWIlawyer. (What can I say? It seemed like such a goodidea when he proposed it a year ago.)
Welcome to the Labor Day Edition ofBlawg Review.
Work Related
Res Ipsa Blog gives us some helpfulhints forhow to use Firefoxwhen we get back to work. And JordanFurlong’s suggestion thatnon-lawyerscan do the work of lawyersif it’s ‘goodenough’ might put some attorneys out of work alltogether.
Why do you work? Proabably atleast in part to get paid. But if there’s no governmentin Antarctica taxing your paycheck you don’t get the patternbenefit of excluding eighty thousand dollars in financial gain as
And speaking of getting paid, howmany long time lawyers would have liked Dan Hull’s suggestionthat first and second year associates bepaid in experience rather than dollarswhentheywere inlaw school? (Yeah, yeah – I know it sounds like a goodidea now that you arepartner…)
Every job has itsrequirements. Dre Cummings writes about the LPGA’s newpolicy requiring all tour players toverbalise English proficiently or face suspension.
Off Work Related
Want to see a movie on your day offfrom work? Quick – go see the newest BollywoodblockbusterHarry Puttar. (Spicy IP tells us Warner Brothers has alegal beef.)
After a lifetime of laboring for theboss, we can all look forward to retirement, that is unless we readJonathan Rosenfeld’s blog alerting us to all kinds ofproblemsin thenursinghomecommunity.
Criminal Law / DWI
Stephen Gustitis starts a series onTexas executive clemency, i.e.how to get a pardon.
Shawn Matlock posits theMADD’s slogan ‘Drink. Drive. Go to Jail.’ is meant to contaminate jurypools, rather than to deter.
Troy Burleson answers the questionDWI lawyers hear from their clients: “Why did the officer say I couldn’t talk to alawyer?”
Lawrence Taylor writes again on atopic coming to a community near you: DUI cops with needles. San Diego DUI Blog asks ‘
To tell or not to tell? MarkBennett expounds on the explanation of what to do with aNasty Little Surprisein a criminal case. Gideon follows upwith hisown thoughtson the subject.
Walter Reaves asks ‘Who is Responsible for the Cost of Indigent Defense?’
Grits for Breakfast catches AustinPolice Department hyping ‘stranger danger’. Mark Draughn at WindyPunditnotices we are becoming apersonnel state. A Harris County Lawyerloves to be in trial.
Victoria Pynchon documents theFBI’s latest efforts to overcrowd our jails byarresting bloggerswhere at best a civil suit would do, andoffers us tips on what to do when we see theagents arriving on our own doorsteps. Susan Crawfordwrites about attempt overnondiscriminatoryInternet access.
Mike Masnick alerts us that a NewZealand judge has banned the internet publication of the names of
Jeremy Richey tells the story of aKentucky prosecutorwho can’t take (or figure out) a joke.
Overlawyered posts about thedefendant (or his insurer) suing the city fornot properly taking car of his car in the impoundin a fatal hitand run case.
QuizLaw posts an oldie but a goodiefrom theinternetDWI archives.
Random (but stillincluded)
As Labor Day precedes the start ofthe NFL season, Scott Greenfield writes about recently retired NewYork Giant Michael Strahan’s child support appeal. On aside note, he also takes his approximately 40th consecutive win forHeadline-of-the-Week with ‘Three Ponies is Enough for Anybody’.
Professor Randazza suggests that ifeating away a jacket that says “Fuck the Draft” wasfound to beprotectedspeechby the Supremes in 1971, the Department of HomelandSecurity should have known that thet-shirt slogan “lesbian.com” was A-OK.
Mark Herrmann gets to say “
David Harlow writes about an OIGadvisory opinion exclusion acontractual cut venture.
Is it against Google’s termsof service to sell links? The note section of KevinO’Keefe’s post aboutFindLawlights up. And Paul Ohm writes about thepossibility of lawsuits whenfree wi-fi terms of serviceare editable by the user.
That’s it for nowfolks. BlawgReviewhas information about next week’s hostLegal Literacy, andinstructions how to get your blawg posts reviewed in upcomingissues.