Legal Research Blog

Every once in a while, I’ll come across a law blog that does not have an RSS feed. The problem isn’t that their blog software doesn’t support RSS feeds. Instead, these bloggers have gone out of their way to disable their feed. I don’t get it.
The entire point of blogging, I thought, [...]

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I’m came across a website for a county this afternoon. At first, I tried to click on some of the links in the navigation, but that didn’t work. Then, I noticed the the warning at the bottom of the page:
Some links on this web page/site will be blocked if you have a “pop-up [...]

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The Philadelphia Inquirer: Pennsylvania Takes on Online Auctions. Mary Jo Pletz was really, really good at eBay. But now the former stay-at-home mother and gonzo Internet retailer fears a maximum $10 million fine for selling 10,000 toys, antiques, videos, sports memorabilia, books, tools and infant clothes on eBay without an auctioneer’s license.
Why is Pennsylvania [...]

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Mishak v. Google, Inc. et al. is quite a head-scratcher. I found the complaint on the Justia Federal District Court Filings and Dockets website. Unfortunately, the complaint was a scanned and split into three parts. Breaks the flow when you have to hop around. I pieced the complaint together and OCR’d [...]

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“Unlike most Internet sites, Music Store is accessed with proprietary Apple software, rather than a Web browser.”
Talk about a meaningless distinction. Safari is proprietary Apple software. Internet Explorer is proprietary Microsoft software. Go Firefox?

“The ‘Online Music market’ is defined as the market for digital music delivered to the consumer by way of [...]

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The Greatest Generation liberated Europe from Nazi Germany, and the most-privileged generation whines about free wi-fi. Yes, I’m from the generation of whiners and complainers. I’m using the “free” wireless Internet connection at a hospital, and I hate it because free also means filtered, censored, or whatever else you want to call it.Now, I [...]

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Some people worship God, while others believe that Google is God. While Google’s ability to deliver relevant search results appear miraculous at times, Google can miss the mark. For the standard Google web search, I know that Google’s algorithm can be attacked by spammers and made to seem “off.” But, what’s up with [...]

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Have you ever billed a client for watching videos on YouTube? If this sounds too preposterous, consider this blog post from David Swanner, a South Carolina personal injury lawyer. David Swanner reports that his client was waiting to turn left at an intersection when a car driving in the opposite direction spun-out and [...]

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