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January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810381
Blogger Amber points to the tale of a transsexual survivor of Katrina being arrested for using the woman's room and asks "Why not have unisex bathrooms?" One obvious reason is that, in commercial establishments at...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810384
Australia's ABC network discusses the idea ("Law group suggests legal action over late doctors", Sept. 13) as do KevinMD's commenters (Sept. 13). It's not actually new, though: a Nevada patient filed an action in small...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810383
Threatens to sue a blogger over a joke T-shirt (via Sullivan)....
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810382
All sorts of interesting reporting on the news side of the subscriber-only WSJ:In one of Douglas Fougnies's early business ventures, he provided phony new-vehicle titles for stolen cars. His partner, Larry Day, is a onetime...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810380
The AP reports that a "lawsuit seeks what attorneys say could be billions of dollars from a long list of oil companies for damages to wetlands that allegedly would have softened Hurricane Katrina's blow." Attorneys...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810379
Some things even the hurricane isn't going to stop: "The federal government announced Friday that it will retry Coast attorney Paul Minor and two former judges he is accused of bribing." (Geoff Pender, "Government to...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810376
By reader acclaim:In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810378
We're one of the "Wekelijkse aparte links" on the Netherlands portal Leukestart.nl. If this is your first time here, our page on personal responsibility is especially popular with readers; we've also got pages on, among...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810377
For stepping forward to represent the prison grievances of one of Massachusetts's most infamous killers, Daniel LaPlante, supposedly on a pro bono basis; for your skill at turning into a civil rights claim LaPlante's complaints...
January 16, 2011, 11:44 pm, 810372
Readers were not shy about recommending hosting services (thanks for all your emails!) and I've now decided to go with Hosting Matters, which has many articulate fans and seems to make a specialty of Movable...