140 Law - Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 31, 2013:

• Ex-client presumed dead after breaking into La. law firm and ‘shooting everything,’ partner says
• U.S. student abandoned in jail cell for 4 days without food, water gets $4 million
• Appeals court cans N.Y.C. soda ban (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
• Appeals Court: No Warrant Needed for Tracking of Phone Location Data
• Court-appointed lawyer argues against death sentence for pit bull who attacked 5-year-old boy
• Theatre mogul Garth Drabinsky will remain on day parole - National Post
• Julian Assange expects Bradley Manning to appeal ‘dangerous’ verdict
• U.S. wants exemption from Canadian law for cross-border officers, RCMP memo says
• 3 Former Penn State Officials Will Be Tried in Sandusky abuse case
• This week at the SCC (26/07/2013)
• Officer in Sammy Yatim bus shooting identified as James Forcillo - Toronto Star
• Judge: MLB can sue Florida clinic over performance enhancing drugs
• Indiana Planned Parenthood Battle Ended By Judge: Medicaid Must Fund
• Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy, guilty of espionage (Washington Post)
• Bradley Manning faces 136 years in jail as sentencing begins
• Why NSA Surveillance Will Be More Damaging Than You Think (James Fallows/The Atlantic Online)

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 30, 2013:

• Pet Custody Cases Across the Pond
• Streetcar shooting: Toronto police officer suspended
• Why a ‘star culture’ can hurt law firms in the long-run
• Sidebar: Court to Decide if Lawyers Can Block Gays From Juries
• Walgreens must pay customer $1.44M after pharmacist shared her prescription records
• Quebec orders railway to cover cost of Lac-Mégantic cleanup
• Canadian Judicial Council 2012-2013 Annual Report
• Saudi court sentences woman’s rights activist to 7 years and 600 lashes
• Bradley Manning judge to release verdict on Tuesday in WikiLeaks trial (Ed Pilkington/Guardian)
• The times – and notice periods – they are a-changin’ | Canadian HR Reporter
• Ontario daughter gets late dad's house back after conflict with stepmother, but can't go in
• Judges Ask US Supreme Court to Take On Cell-Phone Searches
• Protesters condemn actions of police in deadly shooting - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
• 2013 ABA Tech Survey once again shows surge in attorneys using iPhone, iPad
• The Truth About Metadata
• Cellphone videos fight police abuse of power, experts say - Toronto Star
• After Arrests on Charges of Sodomy, an Apology
• North Carolina governor signs controversial anti-abortion law
• Aboriginal residential school abuse victims should be represented in court, say advocates
• Family law needs holistic approach: LCO - Law Times

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Monday, July 29, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, July 29, 2013:

• Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance
• Ontario Human Rights Tribunal fines farm $23,500 for calling migrant workers ‘monkeys’
• American lawyer attacked by polar bear while camping in Labrador
• Fired Florida court worker says she saw judge have sex with her bailiff; judge denies law
• Phase out court reporters, Nebraska judge says; How would a ‘price point law firm’ work?
• Lac-Mégantic mulls legal action over $4M in cleanup costs
• Roberts’s Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court
• U.S. Prison Populations Decline, Reflecting New Approach to Crime
• Baton Rouge cops propositioning, arresting gay men under sodomy law struck down 10 yrs ago
• A Canadian Law School for Homophobes?
• Ontario jails holding more inmates than they're designed for
• Public opinion surveys find people have low opinion of attorneys but still want their kids to become one
• Washington bosses, it's now illegal to demand Facebook passwords
• Bulger trial hinges on credibility of gangsters
• Michigan attorney general backs pensioners in Detroit bankruptcy
• Write Like a Supreme Court Justice?
• Big Marijuana lobby fights legalization efforts (Byron Tau/Politico)
• Snowden’s Lawyer Comes With High Profile and Kremlin Ties
• 10 ex-'Idol' contenders sue, alleging racism
• Wrongful Bank Foreclosure Has Not Led To Compensation For Victim
• SCOTUS favorability rating drops below 50% for the first time in almost 30 years
• U.S. won't seek death penalty for NSA leaker Snowden
• Ariel Castro, Cleveland man who trapped, raped three women for years, gets life plus 1000 years
• B.C. teacher cleared in sex case says trials ruined life
• Madison woman gets 5 years in child starvation case
• Ontario Human Rights Tribunal: Code protections extend to workplace-related postings on Facebook
• Supreme Court rules against tabling French-only court documents in B.C. | CTV News
• Kim Dotcom Speaks at NZ Protest Rally, Crowd Cheers
• Guard wins record human rights settlement for ‘vile’ anti-gay harassment at Ottawa jail
• Judge in Bradley Manning trial begins weighing her verdict
• Native Activist order to pay over $16Gs costs for Idle No More blockade
• Ex-IMF chief Strauss-Kahn to be tried for pimping (Reuters)
• Battling court gridlock with tech tools

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Friday, July 26, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, July 26, 2013:

• S.F. cyclist guilty of vehicular manslaughter for running down pedestrian; could be a U.S. first
• Ohio Judge in contempt for barring journalist from courtroom in defiance of appeals court order
• Lawyer gets suspension for impersonating college acquaintance on lesbian dating website
• Lane Armstrong's lawyer: US 'got what it bargained for' - Toronto Sun
• Court says skipping ads doesn’t violate copyright. That’s a big deal.
• Thursday Thinkpiece: Jordan Furlong on the Open Market for Legal Services
• Is the death of BigLaw overhyped?
• O.J. Simpson to ask Nevada parole board to cut prison sentence
• 9 creative lawyer business cards (gallery)
• Fair-Access to Work – Removing the 'Canadian Experience' Employment Barrier
• Canada's crime rate lowest since 1972
• If you oppose marijuana legalization and regulation, you’re soft on crime
• More Judges Who Blog
• Google ordered by judge to ID anonymous blogger who targeted lawyer
• Federal prosecutors charge SAC Capital hedge fund with criminal fraud
• Alabama abortion law delayed by federal judge
• Ontario judge certifies investors' class action against Manulife Financial | Financial Post
• Major Layoffs at LexisNexis
• Senate scandal: RCMP say Mac Harb home ‘uninhabitable’
• Military court hears closing arguments in Manning WikiLeaks case
• Pastor: 'In God We Trust' Signs on Tennessee Courthouse Are Part of 'Majority Rule'
• The Shrinking Of Big Law, Ctd
• Highlights From Canada's Law Reform Commissions
• Edmonton owner of gore website wanted by police for breaching bail condition - Edmonton Journal
• Halliburton Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence After Gulf Spill
• Gender identity and gender expression under the Human Rights Code: One year later
• Apportioning liability for a single loss caused by separate breaches of contract
• U.S. indicts five hackers in biggest cyber fraud case in history
• Halliburton will plead guilty in BP Gulf oil spill - The Hill's E2-Wire
• Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords (Declan McCullagh/CNET)
• Premiers back national inquiry on missing aboriginal women - Canada First Perspective
• Justin Trudeau wants to legalize marijuana in order to ‘keep it out of the hands of our kids’
• Lawyer Clayton Ruby seeks halt to proposed BC law school that bans gay ‘sexual intimacy’

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Thursday, July 25, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 25, 2013:

• Federal Judge Halts Legal Challenges in Detroit Bankruptcy Case
• Alabama abortion law blocked for now
• Man swam from Windsor to Detroit, was found in water on return and cited for public intoxication
• John Furlong's former students file sexual assualt lawsuit against ex-Vancouver Olympics CEO
• Government asks courts for help over documents related to aboriginal abuse
• US House Narrowly Defeats Effort to Rein In N.S.A. Data Gathering
• Brian Burke can serve John Doe defendants through the private message feature on a message board
• Ontario court restates employer responsibility in managing sexual harassment, refuses to accept antiquated excuses
• Court petition seeks EPA action on pesticide drift
• New website makes it easier to compare law-school jobs data
• Cameron’s UK Online Porn Crackdown
• Principal in India Tainted Lunch Deaths Is Arrested
• Manitoba Mennonite community gets help after 40 kids seized by children's aid - CBC News
• North Carolina poised to massively restrict voting access for poor and minority voters

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Wednesday, July 24, 2013:

• Appeal court rules FDA can't allow execution drug to be imported
• Guatemalan mine claims against HudBay can be tried in Canada, judge says - The Globe and Mail
• Banned from campus over ‘Hot for Teacher’ essay, college student loses free speech suit
• Police assault trial: Superior lied in court, Toronto constable testifies
• Courts Warn US Congress on Budget Cuts
• New Hampshire governor signs medical marijuana bill into law
• Ontario family law report recommends 'entry point' centres with simplified info - Waterloo Record
• Accused Toronto police officer calls G20 tribunals a 'farce’
• New Republic asks six experts "how to fix law school"
• Op-Ed: Bora Laskin’s reputation still matters
• Feds take Zimmerman case items, gun
• Privacy in Family Law Cases in England
• Detroit bankruptcy case heads to Wednesday hearing on labor union pension challenges
• Federal judge orders Ohio to recognize marriage of dying gay man
• Obama administration appears to have filed first legal defense of NSA phone data spying
• Annulment & Wills Fraud
• Pentagon will hold parole-type hearings for Gitmo detainees
• Is Being A Partner The Worst Job In Biglaw?

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Tuesday, July 23, 2013:

• Did lawyer try to run down judge he’d targeted in blog posts? Top state court to decide
• Law Commission of Ontario Releases Final Report in the Family Law Project
• Judge Blocks North Dakota Abortion Restrictions
• Can You Start a Law Firm with No Money?
• Training or work? Unpaid interns want companies to pay up
• Study shows SCOTUS justices resort to ‘intensifier’ words more often in dissent
• Hearing Set for Lawsuit Disputing Detroit’s Bankruptcy Filing
• Scalia's Judicial Scam—In Detail-Part 2
• Legal assistance funding cuts threaten most at-risk (with video) - Windsor Star (blog)
• 'Lost Canadian' fighting nonsensical law that prevents war babies from becoming citizens
• Case Against a Canadian Investment Banker Highlights SEC's Expansive View of Insider Trading - Bloomberg
• UK seeks automatic blocks on online porn
• Suspension of EI whistleblower sets dangerous precedent, critics say
• Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq jail Abu Ghraib in violent mass break-out (Reuters)
• Ex-clients can seek emotional distress damages in legal malpractice case, top Iowa court says
• Michigan supremes demote chief district court judge for failure to cooperate with overseer
• White people believe the justice system is color blind. Black people really don’t.
• Report Finds Gradual Fall in Female Genital Cutting in Africa
• Lawyer behavior in Florida will be overseen by local professionalism panels

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Monday, July 22, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on 
Twitter for Monday, July 22, 2013:

• Big Law Firms in Trouble: When the Money Dries Up | New Republic
• Manslaughter boast ends U.S. fugitive’s secret life in Canada
• Dubai jails Norwegian woman for illicit sex after she reports rape
• The Galloping Beaver: Spying, commerce and law . . .
• New Jersey Supreme Court rules warrants required to track cell phones
• Scalia's Judicial Scam—In Detail-Part 1
• EI whistleblower suspended without pay
• Woman arrested for faking brain injury and scamming $480,000 from Boston bombing victims
• BC Goes Its Own Way On Tort Of Invasion Of Privacy - Privacy Protection - Canada
• Judge Challenges White House Claims on Authority in Drone Killings - NYTimes
• Tim Hortons apologizes after Wi-Fi censor blocks gay news website
• Why Two Airlines Are Still Fighting 9/11 Lawsuits
• Woman’s long fight to be recognized as a Canadian citizen heads to court
• Michael Jackson’s mother testifies at trial: ‘When I lost Michael, I lost everything’
• Supreme Court grants appeal by former Congo diplomat to UN in war crimes case - News1130
• Detroit bankruptcy filing unconstitutional, judge rules
• San Diego county clerk: 'enforce state law’ by denying marriage licenses to same sex couples
• Senate and C.I.A. Spar Over Secret Report on Interrogation Program
• Temps: On the use of temporary workers in the US to circumvent regulation, legal obligation to employees
• Experiments on aboriginal people 'monstrous,' Paul Martin says

• Supreme Court of Canada clarifies war crimes law - Globalnews.ca
• Italy Court Finds Berlusconi Associates Guilty on Sex Charge
• George Zimmerman Is Not Unique
• Supreme Court clarifies rules on refugees and war crimes
• Judge grants injunction in Hobby Lobby case - Times Union
• Who owns your data when you’re dead?
• Update: judge rules Sony had right to use Faulkner quote

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140 Law - Legal Headlines for Friday, July 19, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Friday, July 19, 2013:

• Texan Claims Bar Exam Is Unconstitutional — Which Kind Of Proves Why We Need Bar Exams
• Changes to Condo Act will offer greater protection for residents, Liberals say
• Magnotta video arrest: What does a 'corrupting morals' charge mean?
• As Goes Access to Law School, So Goes Access to Justice – Part II
• Montreal mayor gets arrested, quits, collects $268,000 in severance
• Police charged Yonge St. company for selling fake ID
• Penn State OK’d $60M settlement with two dozen claimed Sandusky abuse victims, WSJ says\
• B.C. court calls retainer agreement in injury case 'flawed' from start
• Lawyer for inmates on hunger strike is banned from all California prisons
• Law firm admits leaking J.K. Rowling's alter ego
• Ignore the haters. Law school is totally worth the cash.
• Leon's Furniture store paid man below minimum wage - Ottawa - CBC News
• Abortion foes succeed in US State Houses
• Opinion: Why the prosecution failed
• Gore website owner granted bail in Magnotta video case, but barred from accessing Internet
• Lawyers to argue for search warrant disclosure in Ford related murder case - Sun News Network
• Grandpa finds marijuana-filled pipe in Burger King Kids Meal
• NSA Using 3 Degrees of Separation For Spying. Feeling Better?
• Debating, Yet Again, the Worth of Law School
• Detroit Files Biggest U.S. Municipal Bankruptcy (Matthew Dolan/Wall Street Journal)
• Here’s what it feels like to be sued by a patent troll
• Top NJ court says warrant is required to track cellphone location
• U.S. reviewing 27 death penalty convictions for FBI forensic testimony errors - The Washington Post
• Judge in Bradley Manning trial rejects motion to dismiss key charge - The Washington Post
• Cloud Storage and Encryption
• Jaywalker handcuffed and put in police car was not arrested, city says in response to civil suit
• Guantanamo guards allowed to continue detainee genital searches
• Rights groups challenge NSA surveillance
• CRA officials may be liable for negligent investigation - Lexology (registration) 
• Indiana lawyer is disbarred for revealing client information in autobiography
• Perry Signs Texas Abortion Restrictions Into Law

- Rachel Spence, Law Clerk

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140 Law - Headlines for Thursday, July 18, 2013

Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Thursday, July 18, 2013:

• Failure to ask employee about questionable expenses prior to termination means no just cause
• House Republicans reject proposal to ban gun sales to suspected terrorists
• Judge blocks ‘unmistakably religious’ monument in southern California
• US Supreme Court’s Guide for Oral Argument
• Retirees win class-action suit over benefits against General Motors - Globe and Mail
• Lawyer’s demand-letter threat to reveal sexual liaisons was not extortion, appellate court says
• Stores Tracking Our Cell Phones
• On Zimmerman and Trayvon, We Need To Start Talking About Guns, Too | New Republic
• Edmonton gore website owner charged over video in Magnotta case
• Ontario Establishes New Minimum Wage Advisory Panel - Government of Ontario News
• Get Over Your Fear of the Internet, US Appeals Judge Richard Posner Tells Peers
• Shoppers Drug Mart Franchisees' Class Action lawsuit update
• US judge OKs feds’ $5B suit against Standard & Poor’s, blasts ‘troubling’ defense of ‘puffery’
• First Nations '60's scoop' lawsuit heads to trial - CBC.ca
• Queen Elizabeth II gives royal assent’ to bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Britain
• Millions of U.S. license plates tracked and stored – and it’s not just government agencies
• Marriage Equality Comes To England And Wales
• Experiments on human "subjects"
• Eliminating Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System
• GM Canada wrong to cut benefits of some retired workers, Ontario court rules
• Microsoft seeks review of gag order on NSA spying info
• Your cell phone helps stores spy on you
• Toronto cop disciplined for posing as flood victim
• ACLU sues state of Montana over benefits for gay couples (Lee Enterprises/Associated Press)
• Mentoring Real Estate Lawyers
• What’s the value of a law degree? $1M in a lifetime, report says
• The rise of the sole practitioner

- Elysia Cherry, Legal Assistant

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