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Friday, September 2, 2022

Motel not liable for guest's suicide, court rules, despite family warning of risk, asking for room number

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CC0 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons The Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday rejected Motel 6 liability for the suicide of a guest. The Septembe...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Shoe on other foot as US claims sovereign immunity in foreign court for firing Malaysian embassy worker

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The U.S. Embassy in KL commemorates flight MH17 in 2014. (Embassy photo, public domain, via Flickr ) Malaysian courts have been wrestling w...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Librarian Peltz-Steele joins Roger Williams Law

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M. Peltz-Steele I am overjoyed to announce that my wife, Misty Peltz-Steele , has joined the law library at Roger Williams University Law Sc...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

'Dr. G' opens law program for Acropolis Group in India

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Congratulations to my friend and colleague, Professor Geetanjali Chandra , LL.D., on her appointment to found the bachelor of laws program a...
Friday, August 26, 2022

McMahon debates incumbent insider in DA race

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[UPDATE, Sept. 7, 2022.] With 90% reporting, the N.Y. Times lists Quinn prevailing with 65% of the vote to McMahon's 35%. This result i...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

University proctor's scan of student's bedroom before online exam violates Fourth Amendment

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Nicholas Todd's Bedroom Workspace (Nicholas Todd CC BY 2.0 ) In a case with implications for remote testing in all public universities,...
Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Invasion of Ukraine marks six months; Russian propaganda flows despite court OK of EU media ban

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#IStandWithUkraine On July 27, the European Union (EU) General Court upheld a continental broadcast ban on Russia Today (RT). The EU Council...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

'Marketplace' features book, film, Wisconsin law class on wild risks at shuttered N.J. water park

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Action Park fun in 1994 (Joe Shlabotnik CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons ) Marketplace today features a torts course about accident risk an...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

NBC resists TV free market, overcharges U.S. viewers: PL football costs $20 in Canada, $70 in United States

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Each year, I become freshly enraged at the cost of seeing Premier League football in the United States, a ready example of antitrust non-enf...
Monday, August 1, 2022

Tortfeasor Parking Only

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I'm not sure what's happening in the illustration on this sign, but it sure looks like a tort. Photo near Vista do Rei, São Miguel, ...