140 Law - Legal Headlines for Monday, January 5, 2015

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter from Dec 24 to January 5:

• Canadians upset with Romanian website that exposes court case details - The Globe and Mail
• From mobile devices to interconnected toasters: How hackers steal your info
• Contractors going bankrupt mid-renovation a “nightmare” for homeowners: experts 
• "The people executed in recent years were ... too poor, mentally ill or disabled to avoid it."
• US Republicans Turn to the Courts to Aid Agenda
• Public pays millions for legal fees of federal judges under investigation
• The art of sketching out the case
• The Top 10 Canadian legal ethics stories of 2014 
• Law Practice program leaves some students in financial limbo
• Apple sued for making iOS 8 update too big
• 2014 Clawbies Announced
• Congrats to all: 2014 Clawbies: Canadian Law Blog Awards 
• The 10 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2014 — Robert Ambrogi's LawSites
• Serious offenders among dozens mistakenly released from Ontario jails
• Florida judge rules same-sex marriage is legal in all 67 counties
• Judge denies motions to move, delay Boston Marathon bombing trial
• Pennsylvania's Juvenile Sex Offender Registry Ruled Unconstitutional  
• KKK defeated in court after years-long legal battle with Missouri town over racist flyers
• Taking your legal marijuana home and turning it into hash oil is illegal: Colorado attorney general
• The WSJ Rips Me Off — Now What? (An Open Letter) 
• Five big Ontario corporate law decisions you might see in 2015
• Toronto bus driver charged after collision with streetcar injures 4
• Public hearings against federal judges since 1971
• Quebec Court of Appeal rules in favour of Robert Mainville appointment - The Globe and Mail 
• Anti-ABS Arguments Continue to Be Based on Emotion – Not Fact by@MEKowlaski
• OTLA SAYS NO TO ABS - Law Times 
• MacKay’s judicial appointments favour prosecutors over defence
• New Hampshire police chief will face no charges for soliciting nude photos from arrested college student
• NDP MP countersues staffer who claimed he ignored harassment complaints - Ottawa Citizen
• Bill Cosby's Ontario tour sparks protest threats 
• Families worried about health effects of planned wind farms have challenge rejected by Ontario court  
• Trade group seeks to overturn California’s plastic bag ban 
• Ontario court dismisses families’ wind turbine appeal
• Focus: New book features lawyers’ accounts of their biggest cases
• Ian Mulgrew: B.C. lawyers hope to end their monopoly on practicing law 
• U.S. Chamber’s “Ten Most Ridiculous Lawsuits”
• Edward Greenspan funeral draws hundreds in Toronto - CBC.ca
• Eddie Greenspan’s ‘contagious sense of mischief’ recalled at funeral | The Toronto Star
• Britain posts 41 million wills online — including Orwell’s, Dickens’ and Princess Diana’s
• Edward Greenspan's biggest cases and clients 
• In Memoriam: Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C., LSM, LLD 1944 – 2014
• Facebook must face lawsuit over scanning of users' messages: US judge - Reuters  
• Edward Greenspan, criminal lawyer and legal pioneer, dead at 70 - CBC.ca

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