Law Links

Well, some are law links.  Some are marginally related, in the “legal consequences” or “better get a lawyer” sense of the word.

First, there is apparently a ScotusWiki.  The idea of community updated information appeals.

Abuse cases against doctor to be mediated.  Questions of fairness aside, this is how mediation should be.  Consciously agreed to by parties that are fully cognizant of the issue.

Bell Canada caught throttling ISP’s net connections. I know next to nothing about this kind of law when in the United States, and even less in Canada, but I’ve got to believe there are some heady legal repercussions to selling unlimited internet, then limiting it.

The new BMW M3 sedan is out, and they are quite highly in demand.  One dealer put a M3 on eBay, and when the price didn’t reach a level they thought was appropriate, refused to sell it to the winner.   The winner has unleashed the internet on the dealership, which doesn’t seem to understand that there a legal contract is formed when one places an auction on eBay.

Following salmonella contamination of the city water supply, at least one family files suit for damages associated with airlifting their child to a hospital.

Some time ago, the internet declared war on Scientology, organizing anonymous protests.  Having identified one such protester through Facebook, they dispatch mustachioed men purporting to be lawyers to inform the protester’s parents that he was engaged in “terrorist activity.”

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