140Law - Your Leading Legal Headlines for the week of February 9, 2015

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter:

• Thousands of UK court cases could soon be heard via Skype
• Ontario’s e-cig law unconstitutional: prof  
• Same-sex couple’s custody battle collides with ‘outdated’ Alberta law
• Lance Armstrong Loses $10 Million Arbitration Ruling
• 5 plaintiffs drop pimping accusations against Dominique Strauss-Kahn
• Ontario Judge ripped for dating site research before rendering his decision in a trial for sexual assault
• Ottawa delaying studies to determine if e-cigarettes are a safe alternative for smokers, researchers say
• Quadriplegic Alberta temporary foreign worker facing deportation after accident leaves her unemployable
• Video: SCOTUS Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg tips her hand: Same-sex marriage is coming, so get used to it 
• Court awards 14 months’ notice to 3-year employee - Lexology
• Toronto lawyer facing now facing 501 charges in $15M condo fraud - Toronto Star
• Revenge porn, posting sexual images without consent, outlawed in Britain  
• South Carolina inmates can be punished for decades for using Facebook 
• Law Society of Upper Canada seeks to break down damaging racial barriers
• Harper says Ottawa will appeal ruling allowing veil during citizenship oath
• Federal judge orders contempt-of-court hearing for Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
• Sun News Network shuts down, putting 200 out of work after four-year run for ‘Fox News North’
• Ginsburg explains why she nodded off at State of the Union: ‘I wasn’t 100 percent sober’
• Peel Region cop convicted in car-insurance scam 
• Conrad Black: Supreme Court on the loose | National Post
• Criminal lawyers question why colleague was arrested inside courthouse for allegedly bringing in drugs
• In Historic First, N.J. Judge Rules Labeling Homosexuality A Mental Disorder Is Fraud  
• Judge rejects media request to interview Omar Khadr 
• Peel police deny handcuffing lawyer in her robes
• Peter MacKay’s friends, colleagues make up 6 of 9 judge appointees  
• SCC sides with Law Societies as part of terror and money-laundering law ruled unconstitutional
• Toronto lawyer arrested at Brampton court, allegedly smuggling drugs into courthouse  
• Abbotsford lawyer in living will case argues force feeding of Alzheimer’s patient amounts to battery
• Alabama top court tosses probate judge’s petition seeking guidance on gay marriage
• Jails Have Become Warehouses for the Poor, Ill and Addicted, a Report Says
• The SCC class of 2015
• Costa Concordia captain convicted of manslaughter charges in 2012 shipwreck
• Target Canada employees granted representation by court
• Canadian Judicial Council under fire by federal judge
• Rob Ford ejected from Toronto council meeting
• Illinois man freed by DNA after 29 years’ imprisonment for murder
• Woman asks to be sworn in as Canadian citizen ASAP after overturn of policy requiring her to remove niqab  
• Kansas Governor ends protections for LGBT state workers
• Hamilton police ordered to pay crime boss Andre Gravelle $10,000 in court costs 
• Feds will not override the court’s ban on assisted suicide, MacKay hints
• Government unlikely to invoke notwithstanding clause over assisted suicide ruling: Peter MacKay
• Lexum on the Departure of Colin Lachance From CanLII
• Lawyer Botches $2 Filing Fee, $2.5 Million Lawsuit Tossed Over Missed Limitation Date 
• Federal Judge Sets Hearing in Alabama over Resistant Probate Judges' and Same-Sex Marriage Licenses
• Ontario Superior Court Sets Aside Will for Public Policy Grounds: Spence v BMO Trust Company
• Ontario wrongful dismissal plaintiff awarded $13,000 judgment and $90,000 in costs
• Who You Gonna Call? Naming Your Law Firm
• New site launches as bencher election set to begin
• Heenan denies partners have gotten capital back - Law Times 
• Family status rights protect maternity and parental leave, rules Ontario court 
• Lawyers ask Harper government why they don’t keep diversity stats about judges
• CRA may have duty to warn taxpayers of tax schemes, Federal Court rules
• Vote to oppose ‘stand-your-ground’ laws passed unanimously by ABA House of Delegates
• Justice Thomas’s Dissent Hints of Supreme Court’s Intentions on Same-Sex Marriage
• Groia to continue court battle, hopes to make change as bencher  
• Supreme Court Undercuts Alabama Chief Justice’s Argument to Delay Same-Sex Marriages
• Doctor-assisted suicide: The next steps for Canada's physicians - The Globe and Mail  
• What is a SLAPP and does BC need a law? - Vancouver Sun 
• Strauss-Kahn Expected to Defend Legality of Lust at Trial

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