Monthly Archives: September 2010

Discovery of social networking information

A cutting edge area of the law is the still developing question of how much of a person’s social media postings (Facebook, MySpace, etc.) can be discovered in connection with a lawsuit.  As usually happens, different courts have answered the … Continue reading

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The caffeine defense comes to Kentucky

The story is here.  I doubt it will work. Update: Guilty.

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Lawyers behaving badly (part 2)

I would have thought that sleeping the wife of your client was understood to be unethical.  Apparently some lawyers did not know that.  Like this one, and this one. And then you have the prosecutor hitting on an abuse victim.

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Not sure what to say about this

Read the this, here.

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Kentucky Judge stabbed

Perry County Kentucky District Judge Leigh Anne Stephens was stabbed while eating at a restaurant in Hazard Kentucky.  Her attacker was arrested and the Judge’s injuries do not appear to be life threatening.  More here and here. I’ve appeared before … Continue reading

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Recovery of Medicaid funds paid from estates

Jim Bates has recently answered all the questions anyone in Ohio would want to ask regarding Ohio’s program to recover Medicaid benefits paid from decendent’s estates.  Read about it here. (Insert usual rant about government picking the last bits of … Continue reading

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Canadian lawyers

Canada apparently has some strange lawyers.  Read here.

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