Tuesday's Legal News

Here are today's headlines:

• Family Law: Canadian man hopes jail means no support payments; A deadbeat jailbird's unmitigated chutzpah
• Supreme Court of Canada: Judges can't require criminals to provide bodily fluid samples in probation orders: Supreme Court
• Ontario Courts: Judge Orders Hwy. 407 To Pay Driver $50,000 In Punitive Damages Over Billing
• Ontario Courts: Ontario will let retired justices of the peace sit on some trials
• Canada: Law Commission of Canada isn't needed: Toews
• World: Baghdad trial deeply flawed, critics say; Saddam verdict likely to spark 'brutal rise in attacks'
• World: Saddam's lawyers accuse US of confining them
• World: Man Faces Trial for Disputing Holocaust
• Technology: After Blackberry Success, NTP Sues Palm; Palm hit by patent suit, share prices drop; Palm says NTP suit unwarranted, patents dubious;
• U.S. Courts: Law Firm Must Surrender Client E-Mails Shared With 'Lay Adviser,' Judge Says
• U.S. Courts: N.Y. Times Must Disclose Anthrax Sources
• U.S. Courts: Appeals court backs decision clearing Enron founder
• U.S. Courts: U.S. Wants American Filmmaker's Suit Dismissed - Claims Detained in Iraq Prison Without Charges
• U.S. Courts: Judge Allows Sale of Nazi-Linked Picasso
• U.S. Courts: Dot-com stock schemer to pay $45,000 restitution
• U.S. Election Law: Lawyers From Both Parties Prepare For Election Fights...
• Employment Law: Slips and trips overtake falls from height as largest cause of British construction injuries
• Employment Law: Britain: Muslim officer sues after being removed from high security unit
• SCOTUS: O'Connor Worries About Courts' Autonomy
• SCOTUS: Supreme Court Considers Whether Man Waited Too Long to Sue for False Arrest
• Oddities: Britney Spears sex tape lawsuit dismissed
• Oddities: Man jailed for putting puppy in warm oven
• Oddities: Burger King sued over marijuana in burgers; Suit: Burger King served pot burgers to cops

-Garry J. Wise, Toronto

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