140 Law - Legal Headlines for Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, June 5, 2013:

• Credit card class actions against banks put constitutional issue before Supreme Court of Canada
• No cheating! Lifestyle clauses gain popularity in prenups
• Ex-Murdoch editor Brooks pleads not guilty in U.K. phone hacking trial
• Was judge senile in death penalty case? 9th Circuit dissenter sees ‘painfully obvious’ incompetence
• Kentucky bar president calls recent lawyer suicides ‘disproportionate’ and ‘disconcerting’
• Are in-House Lawyers Influenced by Social Media?
• Threat to strangle Public defender leads to ethics charges against judge; did stroke affect his ‘filter’?
• Ottawa blocks Telus takeover of Mobilicity
• » HRTO Takes More Measured Approach to Reinstatement and Lost Wages
• » Can you get human rights damages when you haven’t been discriminated against?
• » Is there a Right to Representation in a Workplace Investigation?
• B.C. lawyer disbarred after convictions for public mischief, fabricating evidence
• UK Court Rules 7-Word Tweet by Speaker's Wife Libeled Lord
• Changes to the Law Society of Upper Canada CPD Requirements
• Judge accepts insanity plea in Colorado theater massacre trial
• Rob Ford, Toronto Mayor, Singlehandedly Makes Canadian Politics Interesting Again | TIME
• SLAPP Suits: Ontario Introduces Bill To Crack Down On Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
• Gawker reports Rob Ford alleged crack video may be 'gone'
• Chat with lawyer neighbor leads to constitutional case over $600 city ‘weed’ fine
• Separation agreement scam introduced by fake law firm Franklin Pirsch & Associates
• US Supreme Court OKs DNA swab of people under arrest
• Colorado theatre shootings: Judge accepts plea of not guilty by reason of insanity
• How to deal with bullies? Fine their parents
• Brian Burke case: Defamation law applies online, too - Winnipeg Free Press

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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