Recent Equifax Breach Prompts Criticism of Arbitration Provisions (Updated)

The credit monitoring firm, Equifax, recently suffered a massive data breach , resulting in the exposure of the personal information of appr...

Driving Under the Influence of Glue?

I like to check in on what's happening in my old home state of Iowa, and in doing so today I was drawn to this KCRG story on an (allege...

Is Korematsu a Precedent?

Noah Feldman argues it is not in this editorial at the New York Times. Feldman writes: The most straightforward way to reject Korematsu is ...

Justice Jackson on Japanese Internment

Earlier today, a Donald Trump supporter, Carl Higbie, spoke out in favor of Trump's plan to register Muslims, and cited the infamous Kor...

Supreme Court Nonsense

Every once in a while, it's fun to read nonsense online. Through the magic of the internet, one can explore the  finer points of legal n...

Melania Trump Demands Removal of "Actionable" Statements from People Article

So reports Politico : Donald Trump may not be planning to sue People over the magazine's story accusing him of sexual assault, but his w...

Trump's Bold Plan for the Fourth Amendment

Politico reports on an exciting development in Donald Trump's policy proposals. When asked how he would address "violence in the b...

Illinois "Pidgey's Law" an Overly Hasty, Muddled Attempt at Regulating Augmented Reality

Several news outlets have reports on this bill (AB 6601) recently introduced by Illinois State Representative Kelly Cassidy. Nicknamed &quo...

Value Judgments in the Bluebook

In the harrowing world of the legal publication process, law review editors use the arcane and intricate rules of the Bluebook to dissect, c...

New Jersey's Distracted Driving Bill and Its Disturbing Implications for Probable Cause

USA Today reports : A bill under consideration in the state Legislature calls to prohibit "any activity unrelated to the actual operat...

Possible Sovereign Citizen Elected to Australian Senate

Just when you thought that this blog was now solely focused on the legal intricacies of Pokemon Go... Through my Google Alert for "sove...

Evaluating the Pokemon Go Class Action Lawsuit

Several news outlets have reports on Marder v. Niantic, Inc. , filed July 29, 2016 in the Federal District Court for the Northern District o...

Following "Alarming" Report, New York Bans Pokemon Go for Sex Offenders on Parole

So reports Governor Andrew Cuomo's office in this press release : Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today directed the New York State Department ...

Legislating Via Pokemon Go

The New York Times reports on an awful innovative approach to policy making: Since its introduction this month, the app known as Pokémon Go...

Fred Flintstone, World Records, and Rules With Shifting References

While the rest of the country was watching the Democratic National Convention yesterday, my attention was drawn to a far more dramatic serie...

Texas Judge: No Plea Bargains "Involving" Probation for More Crimes than You May Realize

The title of this post admittedly involves a bit of a paraphrasing, but not much. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has this post on a Texas...