140 Law - Legal Headline for Friday, August 9, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, August 9, 2013:

• The Duty To Accommodate Is Not Unlimited - Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
• Lawyer agrees to five-year suspension for advising client to clean up his Facebook photos
• Trial for final lawyer charged in Texas judge bribery scheme; convicted ex-judge is star witness
• Codes of conduct for professionals: far-reaching implications
• Former Baker McKenzie partner sentenced to prison; prosecutors cite deterrent for BigLaw lawyers
• Judge refuses to drop murder charge against faith-healing parents after a second child dies
• Lac Megantic: Railroad granted creditor protection
• Parents of Vaughan daycare victim launch $3.5M lawsuit
• As Goes the Washington Post – So Goes the Legal Profession?
• Florida Graffiti Artist, 17, Dead After Tasered In The Chest By Cops
• Judge denounces ‘shameful’ wait times for trials
• Incivility: Practical Consequences for You and Your Client
• Is the LSAT to Blame for the Dearth of Minorities?
• Law School Claims Bar Passage Rate is Meaningless
• Longtime legal secretary charged in $1M theft, accused of losing $500K at off-track betting
• RCMP widens probe of Senator Mike Duffy’s expense claims
• Fears of NSA surveillance hurting the U.S. cloud computing industry
• Lawsuit would block Okla. morning-after pill law - Times Union
• CRTC rejects Sun News bid for mandatory cable spot http://
• New charges against former Maple Leaf Gardens usher - CBC.ca
• Marine who urinated on dead Taliban fighters in 2011 receives reduced rank as punishment
• Florida man kills wife and posts photo of her body on Facebook
• Judge in Fort Hood military trial says Nidal Hasan can remain his own lawyer
• ‘Nuff Said: Marvel Wins In Dispute Over Characters

- Elysia Cherry, Legal Assistant

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