http://lawblog.legalmatch.com Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:39:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en June of 2005. Mariah Carey’s We Belong Together was number 1 on the Billboard charts. Batman Begins was the number 1 movie at the box office, for the second week in a row. The U.S. Supreme Court had just decided a case called Kelo v. City of New London. This was ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/19/phizer-leaving-new-london-5-years-after-supreme-court-eminent-domain-ruling/ Everyone has a mother.  Whether you’re a person, dog, or cat, if you exist on this green earth, then you have a mother who was responsible for popping you out into it.  It’s no surprise then why so many of us are attached to our mothers and try our hardest ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/17/man-robs-own-mother-at-gunpoint-bad-sons-everywhere-can-now-say-at-least-they-arent-him/ "Murder."  "Unnatural."  "Frightening." Those are the adjectives that the neighbors of British couple Caroline and Steve Cartwright use to describe the couple’s sex life.  Yes, you read that last sentence correctly.  More specifically, the neighbors have been complaining that the noise keeps them up at all hours of the night, thus ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/16/not-your-ordinary-noisy-neighbors/ I was thinking the other day how there are a lot of things that I don’t know.  For example, I don’t know why the staff at Chipotle constantly puts cilantro in my burrito despite how much I tell them I don’t want it (though from the looks of it, that ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/12/don%e2%80%99t-cluck-with-my-heart-the-legality-of-keeping-chickens-as-pets/ What would you do if you came home one day and found your male neighbor sleeping in your house or apartment without your permission or knowledge?  To further complicate matters, let’s say your neighbor is not armed and is also a sleepwalker, however you’re unaware of the latter fact.  Would ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/10/beating-up-unconscious-sleepwalking-trespasser-is-still-illegal/ Based on some stats compiled by our trusty IT department, we’ve learned that of all of LegalMatch's city and county pages across the United States, locations in the South, particularly the Southeast, generate the most interest among prospective LegalMatch clients. For example, LegalMatch's article on Fayetteville, North Carolina appears to have ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/06/most-popular-city-and-county-pages-on-legalmatch/ In an interview, the great Bruce Lee once expounded upon the amazing qualities of water.  He viewed its properties as a guiding philosophy to be followed by martial artists looking to improve their fighting abilities.  And he was right, water is pretty impressive.  When it’s a torrent it can tear ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/04/negligent-radio-station-nintendo-wii-water-intoxication-16-6m-jury-award/ It’s official - we’re now taking our legal cues on privacy from China and South Korea.  Not literally of course; though like every American court we can still look to another country’s legal statutes and cases for inspiration… though that’s going away from the point of my post today. You remember ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/11/02/email-its-fast-easy-and-now-unprotected-from-unlawful-searches/ We often hear that victims of violent crime are more likely to know their attackers than to be the victim of a random act of violence. LegalMatch case data, covering intake reports from all 50 states over the past 12 months, appears to bear this out. According to our case data, ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/10/30/data-proves-victims-of-assault-likely-to-know-their-attacker/ It’s a weird thing when you start studying the law.  Once your friends and family find out, they seem to come to you for every single law-related problem that comes up in their lives. I suppose it’s true for every field of study or vocation.  Doctors probably have their cousins asking ... http://lawblog.legalmatch.com/2009/10/27/competing-with-non-compete-clauses/