Twice, I've reviewed PocketJustice by our friends at Oyez: a great app for the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices for researching US Supreme Court Cases. Despite the strengths of PocketJustice, it lacked an easy way to follow current Supreme Court developments. It seems our friends at Oyez were aware of…
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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…
Twitter libel ('twibel') cases are growing. Courtney Love just paid $430,000 to settle a twibel case filed by a fashion designer who accused the rocker of defaming her in a series of tweets with incredible accusations. A Welsh politician in the U.K. recently admitted to twibeling his city council opponent…
It’s the end of Sunshine Week, so maybe it’s time to find your FBI file (or your grandpa’s). The Administration’s policy on openness is quite broad: “President Obama and Attorney General Holder have directed agencies to apply a presumption of openness in responding to FOIA requests. The Attorney General specifically…
Attention spans are getting shorter. You can only tweet 140 characters. Courts have pleading length restrictions. Judges' case dockets are packed. So, how can you get your case to seize the attention of the judge? If you can use an image that makes a powerful, effective statement about your client's stance…
Last month, the Black Economic Council, Latino Business Chamber of Greater Los Angeles and National Asian American Coalition staged a protest at Google, demanding data on the racial make-up of its employees. The specific dataset sought by the protesters was the EEO-1 Report, which is filed by all employers with…
Last month, while researching a post on the politics and money site, MapLight.org, I came across another interesting online resource: OpenGovernment.org. The site is still very much in beta, but after having had a chance to check it out a little bit more this weekend, I thought it worth mentioning…
We're guessing that Sony has its PS3 controllers in a twist today. Sony has been on a legal warpath against PS3 hackers, who figured out and shared the game maker's jailbreak code. But all that changed yesterday. That's when Long Island geek Travis La Marr tweeted Sony's PS3 jail break…
In April 2010, Karen McPeters filed a federal class action complaint against Montgomery County, Texas, and LexisNexis seeking to enjoin the county from requiring litigants to file all documents with the court through LexisNexis File & Serve. In the complaint, she alleged that the fees amounted to a poll tax…
The age-old investment adage "buy low, sell high" must be giving the political class a bad case of buyer's remorse. Considering how much our nation has paid in blood and treasure to topple Saddam Hussein, Iraq may well end up being the world's largest underwater investment ever. Worse yet, when…