Huge win for justice and good sense: facing a mounting public furor, "The Social Security Administration announced Monday that it will immediately cease efforts to collect on taxpayers’ debts to the government that are more than 10 years old."

Ted Frank, who formerly blogged in this space, wrote this which I thought worth passing on: I hate to see how many on my side who are upset at Obama's violation of the Rule of Law cheer the Bundys' criminal contempt of a court order. The Bundys are claiming a right to graze upon federal lands withou...

"Money spent trying to spread a political message is speech, whether you like the message or not." [Michael Kinsley on McCutcheon v. FEC, earlier

Marc Fisher reporting in the Washington Post: Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one [Mary] Grice [of Takoma Pa

"...whether you want one or not." [Zenon Evans, Reason, earlier here and here] Congress mandated in 2007 via the Cameron Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety Act -- remember, laws named

The internet has lit up with the story of the 20-year-old, 92-lb. history major who says she's been battling the Yale administration over its pressure on her to eat more. [New Haven Register]. Although much of the press coverage seems unaware of the issue, it would not b

Kemal Yazar's wife called police out of concern for her husband, who had begun behaving erratically and speaking delusionally. Following a struggle of some sort, police shot the unarmed father of three to death. Now one of the deputies at the scene, "who according to an investigator's report, suffer...

Says the man who sued because he tried to climb a boulder in Manhattan's Hudson River Park and fell off. Good news, Mr. Stock: you not only get to explore the world, you also get to explore the legal concept known as "assumption of the risk." [Gothamist]

Quoth California Sen. Leland Yee, D-S.F., would-be censor of violent video games, whose involvement in a wildly colorful arms-smuggling scandal, though neglected in

Not an April Fool's: we've covered the saga of Judge Cynthia Brim in two earlier posts. Chicago voters re-elected her to the bench despite troubles which eventuated in a successful defense to misdemeanor battery charges on the ground of insani

The NBC affiliate in the Bay Area investigates "what some say is legalized extortion" (watch out for annoying can't-mute, can't-freeze auto-play ad). The report "reviewed more than 10,000 federal ADA lawsuits filed since 2005 in the five states with the highest disabled populations. Mo

It's no longer a specifically enumerated crime to do that on the streets of Houston in an annoying or flirtatious way [Volokh]

Martha Neil at the ABA Journal reports on a setback for one fast-out-of-the-gate filing over the fate of Flight 370: "These are the kind of lawsuits that make lawyers look bad—and we already look bad enough," Robert A. Clifford, one of Chicago's best-known personal injury lawyers, told th

...by tearing down the newly built seating on the boys' side, provided by voluntary parent contributions. What's important is that things be equalized, and someone had filed a Title IX complaint. "The seating was also not handicapped accessible." [Plymouth, Mich.; MyFoxDetroit

Another survey of late-night TV lawyer ads, this time by 99 Percent Invisible at Slate "The Eye", and some, like "

A new book by British humor scholar Christie Davies (via Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal) has a

Kind of like Venezuela with Old Bay seasoning: "Responding to a threat that the "House of Cards" television series may leave Maryland if it doesn't get more tax credits, the House of Delegates adopted budget language Thursday requiring the state to seize the production company's property if it stops...