Law

Marijuana decriminalization law goes into effect

polymeme — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:56:40 -0500

THE BOSTON GLOBE :It's no longer a crime to have one ounce or less of pot. The state's new marijuana decriminalization law, approved by voters in a November referendum, goes into effect today... READ MORE

Israel, Hamas, and moral idiocy

polymeme — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:33:36 -0500

CSMONITOR :Israel's decision to take military action against Hamas rocket attacks targeting its civilian population has been long in coming. I vividly recall a visit my wife and I took to the Israeli city of Sderot on March 20 of this year... READ MORE

Opinion pays its own way

polymeme — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:50:16 -0500

WWW.ROCKYMOUNTAINNEWS.COM :Do you like reading Op-Eds? You may be reading more of them in the news sections of the papers, thanks to the changing economics of journalism... READ MORE

Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits

polymeme — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:27:48 -0500

WALL STREET JOURNAL : After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy... READ MORE

Best Careers 2009: Librarian

polymeme — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 07:55:12 -0500

USNEWS :Overview.Forget about that image of librarians as a mousy bookworms. More and more of today's librarians must be clever interrogators... READ MORE

Australian court rules that Facebook "Wall" scribbles are legal notice

polymeme — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:10:44 -0500

BOING BOING :An Australian court has ruled that a posting on someone's Facebook page can serve as legal notice. I think that this is a bad idea -- I've got a lot of accounts hanging around on various social sites that I never check into (Facebook falls into this category)... READ MORE

The Fed Who Blew the Whistle

polymeme — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:20:43 -0500

NEWSWEEK : Thomas M. Tamm was entrusted with some of the government's most important secrets. He had a Sensitive Compartmented Information security clearance, a level above Top Secret... READ MORE

Reselling MP3s: The music industry's new battleground?

polymeme — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:23:27 -0500

NEWS.CNET.COM : A new digital music service is getting lots of attention for proposing to help consumers sell their used MP3s in much the same way people once unloaded second-hand albums... READ MORE

Who Writes Decisions of the Supreme Court?

polymeme — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:44:19 -0500

WWW.USNEWS.COM : Each year some 18 young men who recently graduated from law school serve as clerks to the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Some of the mystery and rumor which shroud their work so far as the general public is concerned must necessarily remain... READ MORE

U.S. views sought on misspent federal funds law

polymeme — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:41:55 -0500

SCOTUSBLOG : The Supreme Court on Monday asked the U.S. Solicitor General to provide the government’s views on the scope of the federal False Claims Act — the law that allows private individuals to sue to recover federal funds that allegedly were misspent... READ MORE