140Law - Legal Headlines for the Week of March 2, 2015

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

• Toronto bakeries Sweet Olenka's and Dufflet spar over naming of small cakes
• Top Employment Law Developments In 2014 - What Employers Need To Know In 2015 
• Prelim begins for Rob Ford ‘driver’ Alexander Lisi charged with extortion in relation to ‘crack video’
• Lawyer Viktor Hohots admits to negligence representing Roma refugees | The Toronto Star
• Ex-CIA director David Petraeus to plead guilty to giving top secret files to his biographer and mistress
• Real estate brokers defy TREB, vow to publish home sales stats - Business - CBC News
• 500 Pakistani parents arrested for not vaccinating children
• Ontario Looks at ODR for Some Provincial Offences
• Prostitution revenue taxable, Quebec Court rules, operator of male-escort agency hit with $1.2M bill  
• How a mid-sized law firm became one of the first in Canada to achieve gender parity in its ranks
• Why Canadian border agents have power to demand your smartphone password
• 21-year-old arrested, accused of being 'lilsecrett,' who streamed live sex shows from libraries  
• Ferguson fires 3 employees for 'egregious racial bias' amid U.S. Justice probe
• Aboriginal mom fights officialdom over spelling of daughter’s name: SahaiɁa
• Federal Court in Alabama Is Asked to Clear Way for Same-Sex Marriages
• Roma family of 39 wins case for asylum in federal court
• 19th century vagina sparks French lawsuit against Facebook | The Verge
• Appeals court puts same-sex marriages in Nebraska on hold
• Leafs fan apologizes to Lupul, Phaneuf and Cuthbert for offensive tweet 
• Judge plans lengthy instruction to jury in Via terror trial  
• Thalidomide victims each get $125K compensation from Ottawa
• Iranian loses eye as punishment
• US Supreme Court to hear gay marriage cases on April 28
• Michael Brown family to file wrongful death lawsuit against Ferguson
• Sick Kids suspends Motherisk’s hair drug testing
• Is Your Law Firm A Target For Hackers? (Spoiler: Yes) 
• Dentons looking to merge again with McKenna Long & Aldridge: report 
•  SCC lowers bar for defence-led evidence in murder appeal
• Compu-Finder fined $1.1M under anti-spam law
• Two US Law Schools Will Not Require the LSAT
• Unacceptable to force doctors to participate in assisted dying against their conscience: CMA head
• Inmate wins England and Wales jail smoking ban ruling 
• Forest Hill maple must be removed after neighbours dispute, judge rules 
• Ontario judge writes simple and ‘inspiring’ legal decision for repeat offender
• TSN tweet dustup shows social media no Wild West when it comes to libel
• MT @HayeseLaw: 1st significant anti-spam penalty RT@CRTCeng: Compu-Finder issued $1.1M penalty for spamming Canadians via David Canton
• Pilot project to expand electronic monitoring of offenders to roll out despite concerns
• Selfie sticks not welcome in Washington's famous museums
• ‘A life sentence in Canada will henceforth mean just that,’ Harper announces new tough-on-crime bill
• What lawyers need to know about data stored on mobile devices
• Stephen Harper unlikely to be called to testify in Mike Duffy trial as PM’s name left off witness list
• Risky business: when is a fixed-term employment contract an indefinite-term contract 
• Ferguson police report: 5 examples of abuse of power - World - CBC News
• Yes, Black America fears the police. Here’s why.
• Windsor library woman who made sex shows fired by employer - The Globe and Mail
• Phaneuf, Lupul hire law firm over tweet aired on TSN - Toronto Sun  
• Sex shows streamed from Windsor libraries probed by police - CBC News
• Court rules on iPhone, iPad use

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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