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I’ll have to try this once I get into actual practice:

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A judge in NYC has ordered that the new law mandating restaurants list the calories of their foods on menus is legal.
That means when you go into Burger King you will see that whopper has over 600 calories, or that some Starbucks coffee has over 700! (I actually love starbucks, sorry friend)
I wonder if this [...]

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This could probably be a whole blog upon itself if i was cynical.
I actually think law school prepares students well- at least I perceive mine does.
However, many say that too much emphasis is put on black letter law, and not how things are done in reality. I say that is a problem with specific professors [...]

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In my first year at law school, I have heard many professors talk about how judges who don’t want to be forced to rule a certain way, will coerce the parties into settling.
Often, the stories they talk about involved scheduling meetings for the attorneys on Sundays during the NFL playoffs, or championship series in various [...]

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There is a case in federal court that concerns a controversy over stopping the destruction of the entire world. Two men have filed an injunction to keep the earth from being swallowed up in a black hole. If that sounds like a Superman plot, you’d be right- but this is true.
The world’s physicists have spent [...]

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I wrote previously about my general thoughts on how to succeed at law school. Here are two simple quick tips:

Don’t buy the legal dictionary
Every attorney or law school graduate will tell you to buy a legal dictionary. Don’t. I fell into this trap. But the people who tell you to buy one of these went [...]

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This comes straight from a judge’s ruling, so it’s practically a law.
Okay, so it’s from a judge in Britain, but I bet it holds true in the US.
A woman tried to claim her ex boyfriend was harrassing her by sending her a facebook friend request. The judge ruled that this was not implying that they [...]

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Google tried to trademark gmail in Europe. Unfortunately, a German email company already had it. Since they were from Germany, and it was called “g-mail”, it seems like they had a valid claim and were not trying to simply cash in.
So, Gmail abroad is known as “Google Mail”. Not a big deal, but just goes [...]

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In Virginia, there is a law that any bar serving alcohol also has to serve food. That is, there are no true “bars”, only restaurants that serve alcohol. I also know that there is a certain percentage of sales that has to be food- although I am too lazy to find out the exact amount.
So, [...]

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A couple big cases coming up before the court soon.

DC Gun Ban/2nd Amendment
DC enacted a ban on handguns and requiring strict rules for keeping shotguns. The Supreme Court is going to rule on whether that is against the second amendment, or whether the second amendment only allows for militias to keep weapons.
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The court [...]

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