California Lawsuits Allege That Suspension of Drivers' Licenses Violates Due Process

The Los Angeles Times reports : Civil rights lawyers filed suit Tuesday accusing the Los Angeles Superior Court of improperly suspending dri...

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 ...

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...

Good Luck on the Bar Exam! (2016 Edition)

During the past week, I noticed that this 2014 post I wrote on bar exam dress codes was getting suspiciously high traffic. I then realized ...

Court Convicts Dead Man of Stealing Electricity

Kevin Underhill at Lowering the Bar comments on an unusual case where a Greek court convicted a defendant in absentia for stealing electri...

Hill on Inmates' Need for Federally Funded Lawyers

Over the weekend, I noticed that the first issue of Volume 62 of the UCLA Law Review is now available online . While there are several artic...

Robinson on the Rise and Degradation of Criminal Codes

From the CrimProf Blog , I learned about Paul Robinson's essay , The Rise and Fall and Resurrection of American Criminal Codes . Here is...

Some Harsh Words on Dueling

While researching and writing a paper on arbitration by combat and Game of Thrones, I came across the case of Smith v. State , 9 Tenn. 228 ...