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Brant Lee

Facebook Owns You

February 17, 2009

This article in the New York Times caught my attention today:
Facebook’s Users Ask Who Owns Information
Apparently there has been a change in the fine print "Terms of Service" on the ubiquitous social networking site.

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Obama poster artist a copyright thief!?

February 10, 2009

Yes, it's the Associated Press v. Shepard Fairey. Turns out that the famous poster by artist Shepard Fairey (is that a great name or what?) was confessedly based on a photograph by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia.  The AP is claiming that the poster violates their copyright in the photo.

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Prosecutions delayed

February 5, 2009

On Wednesday, the military’s highest court on war crimes prosecutions gave the Obama Administration a requested 120-day delay of a pending case to allow a new study of the fate of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

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Courtroom dogfight

February 2, 2009

I loved this story about a dog owner and his fight against the condominium association. Typically, a state will have a Condominium Act that governs the various kinds of rules and restrictions a homeowners association can impose on owners of individual condominium units. Apparently this condo association had a rule prohibiting dogs over 12 pounds. [...]

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At the polling place

November 6, 2008

I was a poll observer on election day. I saw:
One poll worker who called everybody "baby," as in: "Have you ever voted before, baby? Well, sweetie, you just fill out the bubble for the person you want, OK baby? But don't write anybody's name down there where it says 'write-in,' baby, because then you're voting [...]

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Handy Dandy Summit County Election Guide

October 15, 2008

As a class project in my Election Law class, two of my students prepared a brief, nonpartisan "Elizabeth and Clarissa's Handy Dandy Summit County 2008 Election Guide." (I have changed their names to protect their anonymity.) They were dismayed to find how difficult it was to find information about various candidates and issues. They recommend [...]

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The End of Wall Street

September 18, 2008

My learned colleague Alan Newman tells me that this article is a good general overview of what is going on on Wall Street. Not my field, but I consider the bankers, financiers, executives, and real estate professionals who made a lot of money over the last decade to be corporate welfare queens. And I'm nervous [...]

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Ohio Election Law Action!

September 13, 2008

Ohio looks to be an important swing state (again!) in the upcoming Presidential elections. But you might not have realized that legal issues may determine the outcome. Efforts to settle these issues in advance seem to have failed. Here are a few of the battles currently being fought:

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What is a "natural born Citizen"?

July 11, 2008

Law professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin from Senator John McCain's home state University of Arizona has concluded that Senator McCain is not eligible to become President of the United States. You see, Senator McCain was born in 1936 in the Panama Canal Zone.

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Deference to military judgement

July 1, 2008

Yesterday a federal appeals court released unclassified portions of its decision in Parhat v. Gates. Here's the lead from the New York Times:
In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for [...]

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Scalia unbound

June 30, 2008

Here's an observation from Dahlia Lithwick on the Heller decision (concluding that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to own a handgun):
But I must first pass along this rather brilliant observation from professor Stephen Wermiel from American University, who wonders why none of the dissenters cautioned the majority that today's decision"will almost certainly cause [...]

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