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Legal Announcements: 
Happy Blawgday to Blonde Justice, Groklaw and How Appealing.
Public Knowledge launches a blog.

Case of the Week: eBay v. MercExchange

• Read Dennis Crouch's analysis at Patently O: Supreme Court Vacates eBay Injunction. 


• Matt Buchanan weighs in with his thoughts at Promote the Progress: "an elegantly disguised shift that brings a hollow victory for non-commercializing patent holders everywhere..."


• Dan Crane at Antitrust Review on eBay, patent trolls, and the injunction standard.


• More Patent Related News: USPTO Orders "One-Click Patent" Reexamination via The Human Genome Project Completed

Hot Topics: NSA and Net Neutrality

• Orin Kerr: New Facts Suggest A Possible Reason Why the Phone Companies May Not Be Liable For the NSA Call Records Program
• Jack Balkin: Michael Hayden and Article II & The Twin Dangers of the National Surveillance State
• Dear NSA
• Anita Ramasastry on NSA's Access to our Records
• The Shout: NSA, NSA & Cockfighting Roombas


• iptablog: Your Neutralness
• decisisblog: Net Neutrality & the Cable Industry
• Art Brodsky: Will The Senate Save the Internet?

Must Reads

• Was Law Professor Eric Goldman's Post Libelous when he characterized a lawsuit as a "shakedown"? Some say yeah and others nay.


• Jim Maule at MauledAgain on Law School Curriculum: Ready for a Change?: "I've been advocating the problem method since I started teaching, but my name isn't Harvard."

Spotlight: Lawyers in the News

• Blog Post Becomes Law Review Article
• Do We Blawg and How?
• Associate's IP Blog Is Patently Good Publicity
• Blawgers Called Heroes
• Mothers' Day Mix
• When the good times start, they just keep...

Links of Interest

• The Vioxx Litigation as seen by Merck, NEJM and WSJ
• Denise Howell: It's Summer Associate Time
• The history of the yellow legal pad
• Paul Caron's Tax Law Hypo at WSJ Law Blog
• Polygamy is still illegal in Utah; somebody better tell Chet.
• Scotusblog: Blog Round-Up for May 15th
• Miscellaneous Midwifery from The Mommy Blawg

Classifieds

• Win a copy of Jeremy Blachman's Anonymous Lawyer, the Novel by submitting a "Summer Post" to Denise Howell.
• Interested persons are invited to help draft The Open Source Legal Motion (Wald v. Ford)
• Blawg Position Open
• Legal Jobs Blog
• Judged - insider source of real intelligence on law firms

Esq Gear: Sites, Tools, Gear & Advice for Attorneys

• Wikipedia for Congress: Congresspedia
• Professor Bainbridge (65%) asks Are you addicted to the Internet?
• J. Craig Williams on Cleaning Up Your Computer's Environment: "How do you rid yourself of [malware] ... the law of trespass."
• Related: How to Report Cybercrime
• Jim Calloway asks Don't You Hate Losing Your ... Microsoft [identification] Keys?

Upcoming Events

• Internet Strategies for Legal Professionals by Ron Coleman on May 23 in Cherry Hill, NJ
• J. Matthew Buchanan's Upcoming Speaking Engagements
• David Giacalone asks will we see you at IP Grab? on June 21, 2006 in Washington, D.C.
• Blogher 2006: July 28th -29th in San Jose
• 30 Boxes, Upcoming.org

Columns and Features

Copyright

• Second Circuit Decides Fair Use Case Regarding Reduced Copies Of Images (Bill Graham Archives v. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2nd Cir., May 9, 2006)
• Bill Patry on the Section 115 Amendment: Disappointing in all the Predictable Ways says Derek Slater
• Ann Bartow on Fair Use and the Fairer Sex Gender, Feminism, and Copyright Law
• Andrew Raff: Thoughts on Fair Use
• Ron Coleman of Likelihood of Confusion says Baseball been very, very good to lawyers; related posts: I ask, Do Fantasy Stats Violate Copyright?; and Colin Samuels of Infamy or Praise - Take Me Out to the Shakedown
• Laura Quilter responds to Scan this Book
• Ask the Law Geek: What do Mickey Mouse, Lars Ulrich, and Mr. Rogers have in common?
• Record Labels Sue XM Radio [related]

Criminal Law

• The Price of Freedom: Blonde Justice asks, "How much would you have to be paid to take, let's say, a year in jail? How much you would you pay to buy your way out of jail?"
• Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft informs us that the Wisconsin High Court Okays Cops Giving Laxative to Drug Suspect (check out the discussion in the comments to this post)
• Norm Pattis at Crime & Federalism on Waiving Innocence?
• Mike Cernovich at Crime & Federalism on Protecing the Innocent - From Society and Criminals

Mal-Practice

• Professor Bainbridge on The Milberg Weiss Indictment (Appropriate) and on the Melville Estate (Santa Rita Hills) 2004 (A-)
• Cassandra Crotty of the Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog: The American Bar Association Renders an Opinion Distinguishing "Puffing" done in Negotiation from "False Statements of Material Fact"
• Professor Volokh comments upon the verdict and proposals of the academic tribunal investigating misconduct by the controversial professor, Ward Churchill: Sock-Puppetry & Real Misconduct

The Practice of Law

• David Maister presents Stress at the Top a post about reducing senior partner stress concerning the bottom of the pyramid falling out. Related: Rob Millard on Potjie Strategy and Angry Associates and Bruce MacEwen: First-Year Associates Eligible for Partnership
• Tom Collins on Law Firm Financial Management-Getting it Right!
• Bruce MacEwen examines the business model of one firm which has completely abandoned the billable hour; and What's So Bad About Being in the AmLaw 100?
• Greatest American Lawyer discusses the need to reduce target marketing area through a vertical marketing structure: Vertical Markets in Law.
• Jonathan Stein says "Be who you are".
• The Listless Lawyer believes that your children's welfare should come before your personal ambition and tells a Stanford Professor who thinks otherwise exactly that.  Related: Bitch, Phd.
• Paul M. Secunda highlights a recent survey of Employer Blogging Policies

Procedurally Sound Questions

• Professor Ann Althouse notes the strange case of a losing plaintiff forced by that cruel mistress, Civil Procedure, to make arguments it doesn't support in a forum in which it didn't want to be.
• Lack of Scienter asks if you can wear "gauchos" to the office.

Ethics

• Blogging Ethics: Mike Cernovich says shame on copy & pasters
• Diabetes Mine on Fighting Plagiarism
• Related to both: Plagiarism Today on The New Plagiarism

A/V Club

Video

• Al Gore on SNL: The Conglomerate calls this an hilarious must see video.



• Ask A Ninja Special Delivery 4 Net Neutrality [via Boing Boing]:


• Related Video: PK on Net Neutrality
• Related: Save the Internet

Recent Legal Podcasts

• Pajamas Media, Coast to Coast, Audible Althouse

Coming Attractions

• Blawg Review has information about next week's host, and instructions how to get your blawg posts reviewed in upcoming issues.


• Stay Tuned for a special Memorial Day edition of Blawg Review next week as it will be hosted by Ed. at Blawg Review.


• Blawgr, the online community of law bloggers, is coming soon.