I often remind my Civil Procedure students that the rules of civil procedure are critical tools for the practice of law. Kind of like Batman’s utility belt. Thus, this wonderful graphic, courtesy of St. Thomas Law 1L Alex Fernandez-Lovo (@afernandezlovo): Cross-posted to Infoglut Tumblr.
A food-for-thought/thinking-in-progress post: does “cyberspace” still exist? I’ve been thinking about this issue recently in connection with several law review articles I’m writing. My feeling at this point is that our earlier conception of networked communications at the dawn of “cyberspace” in 1996 (see Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace) is quite different from the […]
For the odd trademarks file: Stephen Colbert mocks DiGiorno’s new product: PIZZA and WYNGZ. Shockingly, Wyngz are not made of chicken wings. (Ok, maybe not so shockingly.) According to Colbert, the name was chosen because of laws regulating non-chicken wing products. As Colbert puts it, the term WYNGZ is “a government-mandated way of getting around […]
From no less a “liberal” source than U.S. News and World Report comes news that IP addresses in the U.S. Congress have been linked to BitTorrent file-sharing of copyrighted movies: In late October, someone at the U.S. House of Representatives decided to catch up on the latest season of Dexter, illegally downloading an episode of […]
