Transferred copyright for your comments/ratings of a business

"One group, Medical Justice, has tried a preventive tack by creating mutual privacy agreements that prohibit patients from rating their doctors on websites by transferring to the physician the copyright of any of the patient's online content about the doctor. These agreements have not yet been tested in court."

in reference to:

"One group, Medical Justice, has tried a preventive tack by creating mutual privacy agreements that prohibit patients from rating their doctors on websites by transferring to the physician the copyright of any of the patient's online content about the doctor. These agreements have not yet been tested in court."
- More and More Lawsuits Over Rants on the Web that Blast Businesses - News - ABA Journal (view on Google Sidewiki)

I want a lawyer, my dead mom is in the trunk

When a guy asks for a layer right away on a traffic stop, the police search his trunk and find the body of his mom.

in reference to:

"Sanders was pulled over several months ago for running a red light and failing to use his headlights — so it must have been surprising when he asked for an attorney almost immediately. The officer searched his car and found the body of [his mother] Helen Sanders beneath a tire, next to a brand-new shovel, the Columbia Missourian reports."
- Simple Justice: I Want A Lawyer, And Other Suspicious Acts (view on Google Sidewiki)

FBI Doctored Photos from Legal Blog Watch

Legal Blog Watch: "3) Question: I am looking at an age-progressed 'Wanted' picture of Osama bin Laden and I swear it is a dead ringer for my local politician. Stupid question, but does the FBI sometimes just take pictures off the Internet and doctor them up to look like wanted terrorists?

Answer: It happens. (Main Justice, FBI Used Image of Spanish Politician in Age-Progressed Bin Laden Photo)"

Trust accounts for lawyers mandatory | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal

Lawyers must now have a bank account unless all their money is earned when paid.

Trust accounts for lawyers mandatory | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal

Is Supreme Court’s Lab Testimony Ruling at Risk? - News - ABA Journal

Ah-ha! The Confrontation Clause is tested in 2010.

Is Supreme Court’s Lab Testimony Ruling at Risk? - News - ABA Journal: "On Jan. 11, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider when and how lab analysts must testify to satisfy a June ruling that holds crime lab evidence can’t be used at trial unless the analysts are subject to cross-examination. The issue in Briscoe v. Virginia is whether Virginia’s procedure meets the requirements of the June decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, the New York Times reports. The state allows prosecutors to present paper reports to support their case, but requires the analysts to testify for cross-examination if the defense requests it. Defense lawyers say the analysts should be required to testify for the prosecution."

Kentucky Law Review: KBA: 'KENTUCKY BAR ASSOCIATION ROUNDTABLE SEEKS ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM'

Finally, a positive sign that the Kentucky criminal justice system may get an influx of funding, appropriate to the problems it is intended to address: the balance between public safety and fairness.

Kentucky Law Review: KBA: 'KENTUCKY BAR ASSOCIATION ROUNDTABLE SEEKS ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM': "The Kentucky Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Roundtable recommended the development of a common effort to seek adequate funding for prosecutors and public defenders and outlined several “common principles” for reporting case numbers presented by the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy (DPA), the state’s Unified Prosecutorial System comprised of County Attorneys and Commonwealth’s Attorneys under the chairmanship of the state Attorney General’s Office, and the state Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC)."

Supreme Court to Decide Privacy Rights of Texting Government Employees

Communications between officers, in the form of SMS txt messages, on their government phones may be "private."

Supreme Court to Decide Privacy Rights of Texting Government Employees: "The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether police officers have a constitutional right to privacy in their personal text messages sent on city-owned pagers. The Supreme Court will review a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that found the officers have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the messages, the Associated Press reports. One officer, Ontario, Calif., police Sgt. Jeff Quon, had sent and received hundreds of personal messages, including some that were sexually explicit, according to the city. Quon and three fellow officers allege a Fourth Amendment violation by the city of…"

CB radios are not private at all. But, police use them to communicate, unrecorded. This is as opposed to their government issued radio systems which are recorded.

Fair?