This week will be dominated by the news and implications of the passing of Justice Scalia. Here’s coverage from SCOTUSblog, which covers most of the salient questions. Now, onto less weighty matters: My favorite copyright story of all time seems to be winding down: “Happy Birthday” is set to be declared in the public domain…
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This week’s collection of legal news and miscellany is destined to be a classic: The FBI is investigating the Flint lead poisoning (The Atlantic) An Indian court ruled that women can be the head of a household (Jurist) It’s been nearly 10 years since Justice Thomas asked a question from the bench (NY Times) What’s…
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Welcome to Detours and Frolics. We have some decent news on relatively grim topics this week (aside from the Arizona thing, which is this week’s outlier): The Supreme Court ruled that the ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile offenders applies retroactively (The Atlantic) Arizona wants out of the Ninth Circuit (Office of the Arizona…
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After hibernating for a couple of months, Detours and Frolics is back with a collection of SCOTUS-heavy legal news and items of interest from the past week or so: When Ted Cruz clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist (NY Times) Robots are doing a pretty good job of figuring out who authors per curiam SCOTUS opinions…
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This spring, a handful of the JMLS librarians will be teaching Advanced Legal Research. Taught by some of our very own legal research experts, this course will cover topics well beyond what you learned in LS I and LS II. In this 14-week course, you will discover a world of resources that will prepare you for…
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As the days get shorter and exams loom, let us now warm our brains at the hearth of recent legal news and miscellany: “Massive hack of 70 million prisoner phone calls indicates violations of attorney-client privilege” (The Intercept) The New York AG shut down FanDuel and DraftKings in the state (Deadspin) A man accused of…
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A lot of things happened in the legal world last week. Here are some of them (plus some prison ramen): President Obama rejected construction of the Keystone pipeline (NY Times) A big week in marijuana: the Mexican Supreme Court decided that smoking pot is a basic human right, while Ohio voters rejected a bid to…
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After being stranded in Austin on Monday, Detours and Frolics is back with your weekly selection of legal news and items of interest: The Librarian of Congress permitted some new exemptions to jailbreaking rules under the DMCA (Boing Boing) The EU took a step toward granting Edward Snowden asylum (Wired) China will allow couples to…
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Happy Hallow-week! This D&F is only spooky if you’re a fan of really strong IP rights, so don’t worry about nightmares from reading on: The Second Circuit decided a major fair use case in favor of Google Books (The Atlantic) In a follow up to a couple of weeks ago, Jay-Z scored a victory in…
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As fall falls and we hit the middle of the semester, take a break from your studies with some unintentionally California-centric legal news and miscellany: Under new sentencing guidelines, 6,000 federal prisoners will be released at the beginning of November (The Atlantic) California governor Jerry Brown signed right-to-die legislation (NPR) The 9th Circuit ruled that…
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