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Thursday, May 5, 2016

Weird Law of the Day: California Penal Code 598 - Hating on Swallows

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Today's weird law is the strangely specific California Penal Code section 598 , which states: Every person who, within any public cem...
Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Weird Law of the Day: California Penal Code 597h - Animals Attached to Power Propelled Devices

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Here's an interesting California law I stumbled across recently.   Penal Code section 597h states: a) It shall be unlawful for any per...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Oklahoma State Legislators! Please Make These Changes to Your State's Laws

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My Facebook and Twitter accounts were abuzz yesterday with reports of this recent opinion by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma in w...
Thursday, April 28, 2016

Non-Disparagement Agreements With the Government and the First Amendment

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Eugene Volokh wrote yesterday about a settlement agreement between a former employee of a Veterans Affairs Hospital in Washington. The sett...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

In Washington, Your Trash is Private, But Not Your Abandoned DNA

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So reports the Seattle Times: Seattle’s ordinance allowing garbage collectors to look through people’s trash — to make sure food scraps ...

Arbitration by Combat: The Consumer-Friendly Approach America Needs

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A former classmate of mine, Amanda Werner, co-authored  this article  with Sonia Gill for some obscure political website .  Werner and Gill ...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

How to Get Away With Unethical Lawyering, Season 1, Episode 3

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At the time I am writing this post, I have seen all of Seasons One and Two of How to Get Away With Murder . To date, about two minutes of Se...