Last month was Mad March Legalness over at Justia. Here’s a rundown of last month’s highest scoring lawyers on Justia Answers, and our most popular Onward blog and Facebook posts.
Justia’s Top 10 Legal Answerers for March
- Paul Overhauser: 4,140 points, 75 answers!
- Burton Padove, 3,615 points, 76 answers!
- Andrew John Hawes, 1,060 points, 21 answers
- Craig Epifanio, 900 points, 18 answers
- Robert James Reynolds, 710 points, 15 answers
- Ute Ferdig, 600 points, 12 answers
- Jarod Morris, 475 points, 19 answers
- Joshua Goldstein, 466 points, 15 answers
- C. Zadik Shapiro, 430 points, 9 answers
- Steven D. Eversole, 400 points, 8 answers
Attorneys, this could be you. Any lawyer can answer legal questions: just make sure to claim your free legal profile in Justia’s Lawyer Directory, and you can start answering today!
Our Top 10 March Onward posts:
- Like Justia, our readers love puppy dogs and the law. Cicely Wilson’s post about Monty, Yale Law School’s therapy dog, was the most-read Onward blog post in March.
- Angry about entitlements? Ken Chan’s post about Congress and Children’s Sense of Entitlement was a hit with readers.
- Attorneys were intrigued by an Onward post with suggestions on when, and how, to integrate images into their court pleadings.
- Ken Chan’s thought-provoking piece about people protesting the racial and ethnic makeup of Google’s workforce got readers’ ears.
- Courtney Minick highlighted FOIA.gov and how the federal website gives users access to Freedom of Information Act data and statistics.
- The Wisconsin governor’s union-busting practices logically led Justia to find and share labor law resources for our readers. Cicely had a post on the issue early last month.
- Japan’s tsunami disaster, and corresponding nuclear catastrophes, got Cicely thinking: Justia should go nuclear by sharing nuclear regulatory information and related resources.
- Courtney followed up on SCOTUS-related posts from last fall by revisiting cases on the Supreme Court docket that have now been decided.
- Elizabeth Roig explored a fascinating lawsuit by an NBA referee claiming that a reporter defamed him, yet another case in the Twibel litigation genre.
- In a novel Supreme Court opinion, Courtney analyzed the court’s historic ruling that an inmate has the right to bring a civil rights lawsuit for DNA testing under federal law.
Our Top 10 March Facebook Posts:
- Folks had a lot to say about ousted ex-Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore a/k/a the “Ten Commandments Judge”, and his thoughts on running for President.
- A post about a 4-year-old U.S. citizen who was wrongfully ‘deported’ to Gautemala led to a firestorm of reader interest.
- The legal challenges that teens, parents, educators, and law enforcement face over ‘sexting’ had our friends talking about how to deal with it.
- Guess what? Many Justia Facebook friends just don’t like Wal-Mart. That became clear in their debate about a post on the gender discrimination class-action recently argued at the Supreme Court.
- A post on a congressional hearing concerning the rights of American Muslims led users to share their views on, and off, topic.
- Scores of Justia friends were captivated by a recent file-sharing decision made by a federal judge in favor of the music industry, given that the judge who wrote the opinion was formerly a well-paid RIAA paid lobbyist.
- We wondered whether America’s role in Libya could become another Bay of Pigs debacle. Justia readers debated the issue.
- Readers debated a recent 5-4 Supreme Court decision authored by Justice Thomas voiding a jury’s $14M damage award for the prosecution’s failure to turn over exculpatory evidence
- Wisconsin’s Executive Branch engaged in heated debate over whether or not GOP Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-union law was still in effect, despite a state judge’s temporary restraining order halting it.
- New York’s highest court issued a home turf ruling, holding that copyright infringement cases should be filed by publishers where they do business, even if the alleged infringement happened out-of-state.
