Shively v. Shively,___S.W.3d___(Ky. App. 2007)Read More

The 2008 date for Idea Festival previously posted were pulled from its website, but apparently an old version lingering out in cyberspace. Embarrassing long story short, Stephanie West Allen received a comment from a reader, passed it on to me, I called the Idea Festival office, so now you have the correct dates.Read More

All 224 pages of Maryland’s highest court decision in Conaway v. Deane that there is no fundamental right to marry someone of the same sex, that same sex orientation is not a suspect or quasi-suspect class, that denial of same sex marriage is not a violation of equal protection and that denial of the right...Read More

The day after the Kentucky Supreme Court held oral arguments on two paternity cases as we reported here, the Michigan Court of Appeals decided Brooks v. Brooks.Read More

Idealawg‘s Stephanie West Allen and I are coordinating a gathering of lawyers who blog at next year’s Idea Festival. Of course the “Idea” in Stephanie’s blawg name is no accident, and this festival is right up her alley, as she posted here. My suspicions are that most lawyers who have blogs are innovative creative thinkers...Read More

Miller v. McGinty, ___S.W.3d___(Ky. App. 2007)Read More

UPDATED 11/08: The Kentucky Supreme Court has accepted discretionary review of this case. T.N.H. V. J.L.H., ___S.W.2d___ (Ky. App. 2007)Read More

The day began with The Internet is NOT Flat . Ethan Zuckerman was joined by international bloggers Amira Al Hussaini, former news editor of leading Bahrain newspaper Gulf Daily News and now Middle East and North Africa editor of Global Voices and Georgia Poppelwell to discuss fascinating international bridge building and discourse occurring on the...Read More

Here are some quotes from a front page New York Times article today, Tell-All PCs and Phones Transforming Divorce. Divorce lawyers routinely set out to find every bit of private data about their clients’ adversaries, often hiring investigators with sophisticated digital forensic tools to snoop into household computers.Read More

My favorite quotes of the day include “A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play” (source anonymous but shared by robotics whiz, James McLurkin), “Why fill my mind with useless facts when I can look it up?” (Einstein, who didn’t know his own phone number) and “it takes...Read More