How a Legal Website ‘Fixed’ the 2008 Presidential Election

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Barack Obama owes a big debt of gratitude to the legal web portal Justia. Without it, he might not be president today. You see, sometime around the time of the 2008 presidential election, Justia founder Tim Stanley “surgically scrubbed” some two dozen Supreme Court cases to remove references to Minor v. Happersett,…

The Lawyer’s Deskbook Goes Mobile

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A company run by a Texas criminal lawyer has introduced a mobile app designed to enable attorneys to quickly access statutes and case law from the courtroom, the boardroom or wherever they may be. The app, PUSH Legal, enables lawyers to load up their mobile devices with a library of annotated deskbooks covering a…

A New Twist in my Content Theft Saga

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[Update: The example links below no longer work because the site removed my content as I requested that they do. ]

I wrote a few days ago about having discovered that a lawyer was grabbing all my blog posts and republishing them wholesale on his website. He was also doing this to several…