“Private” E-mails at Work?
A new American case from earlier this year sheds some insight into e-mail privacy and attorney-client priviledge. Background In Scott v Beth Israel Med. Ctr. Inc., the plaintiff was a physician and former employee of…
Student Challenges Zoological Society
Iason of the Mighty Argos blog claims that Pandas are not a “fixed medium of expression.” He objects to this sign by the Zoological Society of San Diego, and states that a Panda is not…
Free Case Access in U.S.
All Courts of Appeals decisions since 1950 and US Supreme Court decisions from 1754 will soon be available online to the public. This move should create greater transparency in law and promote access by the…
Holiday Cartoons
Have a happy holiday everyone.
LOTR and Legal History
Gwen Seabourne of the University of Bristol School of Law has an interesting article on legal history as it is used in the Lord of the Rings at Common Lawyer. The Oath Binding oaths are…
Cry me a River in Law School
Here is a parody of the 2002 hit by Justin Timberlake, Cry me a River. Lyrics follow. Cry Me A River, Law school style I’m coming undone At the firm reception Cause I didn’t realize…
Party of Appointment, Gender & Court Outcomes
The study by Professors James Stribopoulos of UofT, and Moin Yahya of UofA, has finally been published. Law is Cool did a post that cited their work while it was still underway, and commented on…
Religious Promises may be Binding
The new Supreme Court Case ruling, Bruker v. Marcovitz, has some interesting implications for Jewish family law. The case was considered by The Lawyers Weekly to be the “most timely and topical” of all the…
Limits to Hockey Violence
Kevin “Killer” Kaminski’s recent concussion has revived much of the debate over violence in Canadian hockey. Interesting enough it is cases in hockey that have led to the test used in Canada for criminal causation…
Reducing 6 life terms…
Protecting Minorities in Canada from Free Speech
We’ve had over two thousand new visitors in the past 24 hours. We can track how people get to our site, so we know they are mostly readers of Mark Steyn or affiliated sites. Part…
Steyn responds to Law is Cool
As expected, Mark Steyn has responded within a day to Daniel Simard‘s last post on hate speech in Maclean’s. Perhaps not as expected, he makes some snide remarks about the Canadian Human Rights Commission. But…