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Copyright 2008, Megite 30 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:07:14 +0000 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_1 96cb9fb65c379ea1bfecaa549ada2dd8 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:25:45 -0500 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_2 02befbaa878d9d17273b1a3e3f638e9e Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-18T07:11+00:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_3 f63501d590f87d6469e6c4812c350e62 Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T20:25:57-08:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_4 b337c410becc3706f86c78f4116fb74e Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-18T04:11+00:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_5 531aa49044b4dc4486227c917ecdf257 Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-18T04:11+00:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_6 5fc99e7af3452ef9d611e3b720848335 Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T19:46:37-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_7 c3284817d14888505e99871a83791b31 Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T19:53:11-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_8 cc6e071687c7a8d37a561dbadefbce24 Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T14:20:41-08:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_9 b831f6cac39be00b9984421d8a54e15c Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T15:05:37-08:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_10 cfe7f1ca06f21d5524f0663b8d2c699c Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:00:46 -0700 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_11 b697eab46b50e3faf80c70c14df274b0 Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:39:58 +0000 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_12 7f141ca58aef9bf38472b8bc2dca263b Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T17:14:34-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_13 c0ad79f618d07d3d5228ce64791143f1 Welcome to Gadling's feature, Plane Answers, where our resident airline pilot, Kent Wien, answers your questions about everything from takeoff to touchdown and beyond. Have a question of your own? Ask away! (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T14:21:21-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_14 50b8e7ed76905194d580467afc4f06ff OK, the title is hyperbolic. But here is what troubles me. You are teaching or analyzing legal rule A. Suppose rule A seems to express an underlying standard of undesirable or impermissible conduct C. For example, the legal rule is: "D must pay compensatory damages to P when D's unreasonably risky conduct harms P." The underlined phrase expresses ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T14:00:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_15 8dcb99c9796ad56c065b042543a9358e Following up on my earlier post, Arkansas Con Law Prof Sues His Students for Defamation, Claiming They Twisted His Anti-Affirmative Action Views to Accuse Him of Racism (4/30/08): Today's Inside Higher Ed reports that Arkansas-Little Rock Law Prof Richard J.... (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-18 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_16 0efd34092c82d00885d781f16b7e7f7b The matchIT suite is an effective batch software solution for dedupe and other data cleansing functions for the Windows user. The suite consists of scalable configurations and individual modules for deduplication, merge/purge, suppression, data enhancement, validation and correction of addresses using official postal address files, extraction and ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:54:43 +0000 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/1#item_17 daeb193a427f715e159494372f40abfa This law blog is a dubious experiment in self-expression, by a someone whose tongue is nearly always in cheek. 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(Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-18T04:12:00-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_2 3d3753c8bb039014e9876335176eb16f Margy Love, Washington Post (Op-Ed), In Defense of Lame-Duck Pardons DOJ Press Release, Two Charged with Illegal Trading with Iran DOJ Press Release, Virginia Physicist Pleads Guilty to Illegally Exporting Space Launch Data to China and Offering Bribes to Chinese... 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In fact, the Land of 10,000 Lakes is so left wing that more than 50 percent of the radio stations are National Public Radio. If you don’t believe me, come on up and give the radio dial a spin. And bring some cassette tapes with you. ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:30:00 -0600 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_10 ec3da5e634ff29a542ed2f9be6959546 Every corner of history is littered with famous losers. Who can forget ‘em? Famous movie losers? How about that dude who got his face kicked by a temporarily blinded Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport? Or even better, what about the Cobra-Kai dude that got popped, by Ralph Machio for God’s sake, in Karate Kid? Famous sports losers? ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-17T06:39:33-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_11 fd126c868cfa74ee112850b84a46b61d Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:25:14 +0100 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_12 4f42cffe89d529ae7a99b169364c403a This week the Ontario legislature will resume debate on Bill 85, proposed legislation that could lead to the creation of an "enhanced drivers licence" in the province (referred to as an EDL). My weekly technology law column ( Toronto Star version , homepage version ) notes that the introduction of the new licence - which will also be ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:15:37 +0100 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_13 85e669b4bb80ee4da3b3f4d2683b5de9 Statistics Canada is out today with new data that shows e-commerce sales in Canada rose significantly between 2005 and 2007. (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:13:29 +0100 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_14 8315343f11c4de6225690f8ad2ae0064 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (left) will be in Lubbock today for the Texas Tech University School of Law’s second annual Sandra Day O’Connor Distinguished Lecture Series.  But between the time Scalia makes his public presentation, scheduled at 5 p.m. today in the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center Exhibit Hall, and the time he ... (Read on Source) ]]> November 17, 2008, 4:51 pm http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_15 71d59e0a69c9825352a2efc6c1bd3d7c A survey released today offers a snapshot of how women are faring at corporate law firms. In short, the picture is fairly bleak. Top law firms have worked hard to create a more inviting atmosphere for women, including offering more generous maternity-leave and flex-time policies along and networking events designed to introduce women to key ... (Read on Source) ]]> November 17, 2008, 9:08 am http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_16 5101e7893de3c9f9c25a4cd98f1e60de Greg Craig — a graduate of Harvard and Yale Law, a Williams & Connolly partner and one who enjoys the rare distinction of membership in the Law Blog All-Name Team — has been selected by President-elect Barack Obama to be the next administration’s top lawyer. Here’s Saturday’s report from Politico. (Read on Source) ]]> November 17, 2008, 4:51 pm http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_17 15c9cb0c1d4dc23b140be02c14c85f9f It is extremely refreshing to see how many corporate bodies and individual businessmen enlist their considerable resources for the good of society. Capitalism seems to be the only method that humanity has found to run their economies that is the most effective and fairest (even taking the latest turmoil into account), yet there are many ills of ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:12:44 -0500 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_18 c3ef85c550f9b269718f59b6e67962ce SCO, or more precisely, SCO Operations has filed an amended Schedule F [PDF], its list of unsecured nonpriority creditors, or in bankruptcy lingo "creditors holding unsecured nonpriority claims". Here's the original Schedule F [PDF], if you wish to compare the lists. Schedule F is found on page 7 of the older PDF. It is interesting to compare, ... (Read on Source) ]]> Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:34:00 +0000 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_19 6cddac8304a27d28de186c7e5a939101 It seems that former Home Secretary John Reid has only just discovered some of the Internet scare stories of the 1990s. He tells the Daily Telegraph breathlessly : "We have to recognise that on the net you can practically get the full DNA of the First World War flu that killed 24 million people." If Mr Reid had taken the time to read any of the ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-16T22:57:09-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/21#item_20 4d6f01aa3b65ebcda98f1eb4592d9bf8 Immunity for intergovernmental organizations may, in general, be benign. Applied to CERN, however, I find it troubling. Unlike most intergovernmental organizations, CERN is engaged in a category of activities – even putting black holes aside – that clearly qualifies as “abnormally dangerous” and “ultrahazardous” under American common- ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-16T22:57:09-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/41#item_1 769a6cb9118ac368a771cc071e3e52f9 A GP in his surgery. There are fears private information could be given to researchers. Photograph: Martin Godwin The privacy of millions of NHS patients will be critically undermined by a government plan to let medical researchers have access to personal files, the health information watchdog told the Guardian last night. (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-16T22:57:09-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/41#item_2 612020b48c7196cc8117dce6ab315751 Since June 2003 the IPKat weblog has covered copyright, patent, trade mark, information technology and privacy/confidentiality issues from a mainly UK and European perspective. The IPKat team is Johanna Gibson, David Pearce, Jeremy Phillips, Ilanah Simon Fhima and Tufty the Cat. You're welcome to read, post comments and participate in our little ... (Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-16T22:57:09-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/41#item_3 d92819317df3d3e79cbdb1b9d6c176bd Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-16T22:57:09-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/41#item_4 8842788b3899b4c64632cdcf6b5415e2 Read on Source) ]]> 2008-11-16T22:57:09-05:00 http://www.megite.com/law/1226994885/41#item_5 7f47baafa3fb362a7cd3c3b27e73509f In a colorfully illustrated opinion crafted by Judge Bucher (whose "trademark" is the deft use of Photoshop), the Board affirmed a Section 2(e)(1) refusal to register the mark BOBBLE POPS [BOBBLE disclaimed], finding the mark merely descriptive of candy. In re Paul Leonhardt, Serial No. 78666879 (November 13, 2008) [not precedential]. (Read on Source) ]]>