Earlier this month, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, run out of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, issued a report stating that Internet predator danger to kids is not as high as some have claimed. The report was immediately criticized by a number of attorneys general including Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania. And on Monday, an Internet safety organization in Oregon published a study that claims

When I was learning to read, my favorite book was Bravest of All, by Kate Emery Pogue. This was a Little Golden Book about an old firefighter who, when all the young firefighters and shiny new equipment were out putting out a big fire, sprang into action with his old fire truck to save a family's house. It's a wonderful little book, and when our first child

Courtoons, daily legal cartoons:Atomic Nerds, "Two people, one gigantic government laboratory, and one hell of a lot of opinions." Among other things, jacking with marketers and ranting about stupid government tricks.Feisty Geek, "issues related to technology and the law, as well as opinion onpolitics, society, community building, music, culture, and theunderside of capitalism." Blogger facing false DWI charges.Oedipus Lex, mature investment-banker law student. "A little pretentious .

East Central Illinois criminal-defense lawyer Jeremy Richey hosts Blawg Review 198, on the theme of "The Seven Deadly Sins." I will be hosting next week's Blawg Review.What's Blawg Review?Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law. A peer-reviewed blog carnival, the host of each Blawg Review decides which of the submissions and recommended posts are suitable for inclusion in the presentation. And the host

For those who like to pretend that the government can be trusted to do the right thing, I offer this Houston Chronicle article about black drivers driving through the town of Tenaha, Texas, near the Louisiana line, being pulled over and shaken down:Law enforcement authorities in this East Texas town of 1,000 people seized property from at least 140 motorists between 2006 and 2008, and, to date,

Via John Wesley Hall's Law of Criminal Defense: The Colorado Supreme Court Office of Attorney Regulation today announced that it has filed a petition to immediately suspend Colorado lawyer Francis (Frank) M. Pignatelli from the practice of law. The petition is now pending before Supreme Court Presiding Disciplinary Judge William Lucero. (Thanks to federal appellate superlawyer Peter Goldberger for the heads-up.) Frank Pignatelli was the Ohio lawyer/snitch

I'm enjoying hearing Harris County's newly minted criminal-defense lawyers, recent departures from the prosecutorial bar, talking about prosecutorial bullshit as though  they're the first to discover a previously-unknown creature.

Dear Mr. Evans,I was looking at websites under the keyword "linxmonster" and came across your site . . . . I see that you're ranked # 2 in Google, after one that describes you as a moron.Bummer.(You should have stopped emailing me when I asked you nicely or clicked on unsubscribe.)

Dallas criminal-defense lawyer Robert Guest highlights the randomness of the criminal laws passed by the Texas Legislature with the Texas criminal law generator. Houston DUI lawyer Paul Kennedy and a friendly prosecutor have a modest proposal for reform of DWI laws. I think Paul and the prosecutor might have hit on the beginning of a solution to the problem described by Robert: Let those most familiar with

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