Mar
30
Per Curium: A Windup for the Court on Standing
March 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment
After Colorado’s legislature failed to pass a redistricting plan in 2000, its courts stepped in to do the job. The Elections Clause of the Constitution provides that the “Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law [...]
Mar
28
Say Hi to Hydrogen
March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Hydrogen, long lauded as a potential alternative to fossil fuels, has had a slow start. But for those of you sick of filling up your gas tank with expensive and polluting fossil fuels take note; Honda has announced that they plan on selling a hydrogen fuel cell powered car in 2008. Granted, the current ticket [...]
Mar
27
War on Minorities?
March 27, 2007 | 1 Comment
As the presidential race heats up, candidates across the political spectrum have paid little attention to the war on drugs. Time and again those running for political office have made a public show of reaching out to minorities. They strategically place minority citizens and leaders during perfectly choreographed campaign stops paying significant lip service to [...]
Mar
23
Daily Show v. YouTube
March 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Viacom, the parent company of the The Daily Show, recenty accused Google of copyright infringement for hosting clips of Viacom-owned shows onto Google-owned YouTube. Confused? Luckily The Daily Show ran a segment about the legal battle to help explain it for all of us out here in TV Land.
Check it out on iFilm, which is [...]
Mar
22
… Killed the Radio Star
March 22, 2007 | 6 Comments
The Senate Judiciary subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer rights heard arguments this week from country’s two largest satellite radio providers, Sirius and XM, regarding concerns over their proposed merger.
As the only two satellite radio companies of repute, there are legitimate concerns over whether such a merger would create a monopoly, eliminate competition, and [...]
Mar
22
U.S. Mayors’ Taskforce on Poverty
March 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
In late January 2007, more than 250 mayors nationwide met in Washington, D.C. for the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Although they met to speak about regional and national concerns involving energy, crime, climate change, affordable housing, and education, the most important event of the conference was the unveiling of a new, [...]
Mar
20
Poisonous Plates
March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A Wisconsin bill, introduced last Monday in the Wisconsin State Assembly by Rep. Joel Kleefisch (R), would require the state’s worst sex offenders, including child molesters and sexually violent predators, to affix bright green license plates to their vehicle after being released from prison. Rep. Kleefisch says that many sex offenders use their vehicle to [...]
Mar
8
Ranking the Cleanest Cities
March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment
SustainLane Government an “open-source knowledge base” focusing on sustainable development at the state and local level, recently released their rankings for 2006’s top U.S. cities for clean technology incubation clusters. The group defines a Cleantech incubation cluster as a combination of “Cleantech investments, infrastructure and supportive policies [that form] a physical “cluster.” Ideally, these clusters [...]
Mar
7
There was a cool post on the Wall Street Journal law blog today detailing the overlap that exists between the field of election law and lawyers advising political campaigns.
One of the primary purposes of a candidate’s retention of an election law expert is because of money, money and more money. As the
new online magazine Politico.com [...]
Mar
7
Is Google Playing by the Book?
March 7, 2007 | 3 Comments
For at least as long as I’ve been downloading music (only legally these days), the battle between the free sharing ideals of the internet and the copyrights of major companies has centered around the RIAA and Napster. But there may be a new company ready to take some of Napster’s infamy. Google, a proponent of [...]
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