Michael Smith's Law Blog

CNN reports that, rather than prudently disappear, failed Senate candidate and former Constitution-ignoring Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore ...

From the Washington Post : A jilted husband’s lawsuit against a doctor accused of stealing his wife’s love can proceed after a North Carol...

In a recent post  I discussed whether one could sue a map maker for nuisance. For example, say a map maker were to write on a widely-distrib...

This post is a spinoff from some of my recent posts on Pokémon Go litigation which you can find here  and here . Pokémon Go's popularit...

The attorneys at Pomerantz Law are at it again, and are attorneys of record in a Michigan class action lawsuit against Niantic and Nintendo...

Several news outlets have reports on Marder v. Niantic, Inc. , filed July 29, 2016 in the Federal District Court for the Northern District o...

Unless you've been living under a rock or avoiding the outdoors for the past several weeks, you have probably heard of Pokemon Go , a sm...

So reports NBC San Diego and Fox 5 . In previous years the "Zombie Walk," has been a popular attraction associated with Comic-Con...

My attempt at answering this age-old legal question is prompted by this story about a pair of feuding Iowa couples. Here is the report: A...

The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has this interesting post about Boston v. Athearn , a recent case from the Court of Appeals of Georgia. Fr...

Geoffrey Rapp has the scoop over at PrawfsBlawg.

Bar and Bench reports that several students from KLE Society's Law College have sued the principal of BMS College of Law over an unfavo...

Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), websites are generally not liable for harm caused by content posted by third pa...

These are the terms of a settlement agreement reached by Jimmy Johns in light of a recent class action lawsuit filed against the sandwich c...

So holds the Texas Supreme Court in Kinney v. Barnes . The full text of the opinion is available here. Texas Lawyer reports that court orde...

From R.H. Helmholz's Roman Canon Law in Reformation England , (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990), I learned about the process of ex officio ...

I have a new post up at Techlawgic . Here is the outline: An Italian court recently ordered a woman to remove photos of her and her husban...

Today was the final day of the California Bar Exam. Cheers erupted when the proctor said the three incredible words, "You are dismissed...

The fallout over yesterday's ExamSoft disaster continues, with the legal blogosphere chiming in on the matter. Jonathan Adler predicts ...

From Erica Buist at  The Guardian : All right, own up: did you steal Mike Weatherley's sword on World of Warcraft ? If so, you'd ...