Creating a Legal Storm US Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, made his first major television appearance this week on 60 Minutes. Previously he has severely restricted media access, especially in his court, citing his, First…
Don’t believe the hype Twenty years ago the classic Hip Hop group, Public Enemy, said in their hit song, Some media is the whack You believe it’s true, it blows me through the roof Suckers,…
When “free speechers” publish letters by lawyers or put legal proceedings online, they themselves are attacking free speech by attempting to intimidate legal proceedings.
Fry That What? The case of Mumia Abu Jamal, on death row in Pennsylvania for killing a white police officer in 1981, is raising some interesting issues surrounding jury selection. The court found that the…
The largest copyright infringement payment in Korea was recently passed down. A Korean music company, Fantom Entertainment Group, has been ordered by Judge Gu Hoe-geun the Seoul Central District Court to pay 300 Million Korean…
Chris Blattman, an Assistant Professor of Political Science & Economics at Yale University, and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, has an interesting post on some of his recent work in West…
That’s what a cemetary in Copenhagen is proposing. They’ve set aside a specific area of the cemetary for gay people, based on requests of a gay advocacy group called Regnbuen (Rainbow). Matt Guerrin disagrees. Read…
Rabbi Elior Chen fled Israel to hide in Canada. Not because he was being persecuted in his country of origin, as so many others do, nor was he claiming to flee a war-torn area. Chen…
We previously commented on Canadian use of Depleted Uranium (DU) and legal issues related to it. But DU is making the news again, this time in California. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has received a…
Stephen Lewis at Dalhousie University The talk was given at Dalhousie University last year where he said, When one part of the human family is under siege, the privileged part of the family responds… There’s…
We’ve previously mused on the status of animals before the law. But the subject beared (sic) it’s ugly head in Macedonia this month. A court found a wild bear guilty for damages of US$3,500 for…
Between Jan. 2004-Sept. 2005, the U.S. government killed 23,366 American citizens, 1,100 people a month, or more than 35 a day. On paper that is. Social Security erroneously recorded the people as deceased, much to…
