Duhaime's LawMag

Getting Off The Record: The Lawyer's Oft Catch-22

One of the worst nightmares for lawyers can be getting off the record. There's an app for that.

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An Inconvenient Truth's Inconvenient Truth

There is an inconvenient truth about Al Gore's global warming movie. And it took a judge to ream him out for the wrong rating it received. It's partly science fiction.

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Banning the Use of Hand-Held Cell Phones While Driving

What is with banning hand-held cell phone use while driving that's so difficult for law-makers? Maybe this will help: The Emperor has no clothes! The Emperor has no clothes!

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Blast'em With Plastax - The Popular Uprising Against Plastic Bags

The less you know about plastic bags on the Planet the better except that ... you have to know! And the Government has to act with the hammer of law. Now.

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H1N1 Law - Swine Law for a Swine Flu

In a state of public health law anarchy, professional hockey players receive a killer flu vaccine while infants and pregnant women wait.

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To Kill A Judge: The Worst of Crimes

To kill a judge is the worst of crimes. And yet there is judicial blood within the pages of legal history, and some of it recently spilled. » Continue Reading

The Dolphin-Plaintiff: Kama v the New England Aquarium

Animal welfare lawyer tests the waters of an animal suing in his own right.

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Ferry Sinks - Acting Captain Convicted for Criminal Negligence

Circa 2013, the captain of a ferry is convicted for criminal negligence causing death. Not in the third world. In Canada.

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Junior Hockey, Sex and Rape

Junior hockey seems to wink at an environment of sexual entitlement, careless of the young female victims in its wake.

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Trash Can Law: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers?

The law of abandoned property is evolving, filling, emptying, filling .... Finders keepers losers weepers? Depends where you are.

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