1. "No Voting Machine Virus in New York-23 Election" 1 hour ago   permalink

Rick Hasen / Election Law

See this report at the Verified Voting blog....

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Michael Geist / Michael Geist Blog Huntsville Considers Internet Voting For Next Election   —  Huntsville, Ontario is considering implementing Internet and telephone voting for its next municipal election in 2010.

2. Stanford Hosts Northern California Tax Roundtable Today 2 hours ago   permalink

Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog

Stanford hosts the Fall 2009 Northern California Tax Roundtable today with these papers and commentary: David M. Hasen (Penn State), Financial Options in the Real World: An Economic and Tax Analysis Commentator: David S. Gamage (UC-Berkeley) David S. Gamage (UC-Davis) & Darien Shanske (UC-Hastings), Shedding Some Light on Hidden Taxes:...

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Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog Tough Week for 'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Joe Francis: $34m Tax Lien, Mocked by Stanford Band   —  Following up on my prior post: the IRS has filed a $34 million tax lien against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis', two weeks after U.S. District Judge S. James Otero sentenced Francis to 301 days time served following his guilty plea to two misdemeanor counts of filing false tax...

3. Fiala declared Kent mayor after winning coin flip 1 hour ago   permalink

Media.www.kentnewsnet.com

Independent candidate Jerry Fiala won a coin flip Friday morning, making him the declared winner of the Kent mayoral election after the official vote count revealed Fiala and opponent Rick Hawksley were tied.

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Richard / Ballot Access News :   Independent Mayoral Candidate Will Take Office After Tie Vote and a Coin Toss

4. "Voter Preregistration Report" 3 hours ago   permalink

Rick Hasen / Election Law

From Michael McDonald's blog: Preregistration is a policy that permits young persons to register when they are as young as age 16 so that they are ready to vote when they become voting age. A report on prepregistration programs in...

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Rick Hasen / Election Law "Hoffman Claims Voter Fraud"   —  See here....

5. Is a KSM Conviction a Fait Accompli? If So, Is That a Good Thing? 2 hours ago   permalink

Ashby Jones / WSJ.com

The opening wave of news stories on the decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York focused largely — and understandably — on logistics, as well as the symbolism of bringing the alleged 9/11 mastermind (and several of his colleagues) back to within a mile of the crime.

6. Lawsky Presents Declining Marginal Utility and Tax Policy Today at Virginia 2 hours ago   permalink

Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog

Sarah B. Lawsky (George Washington; visiting at Virginia) presents On the Edge: Declining Marginal Utility and Tax Policy at Virginia today as part of its Faculty Workshop Series. Here is the abstract: Tax policy and scholarship generally assume that income has declining marginal utility (that is, that the next dollar...

7. Strike Against Prisons not Education 6 hours ago   permalink

Governingthroughcrime.blogspot.com

With a heavy heart I am not joining many of my students and colleagues who are striking against classes and educational activities at UC Berkeley and other UC campuses across the state beginning tomorrow (and through Friday the 20th). We ought to be united in mobilization to save higher education in California. But in choosing to make the fight a ...

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Jonathan Simon / PrawfsBlawg :   Hope v. Fear

8. The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500m Gift 4 hours ago   permalink

Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog

Smart Money, The 70% Discount on Goldman's $500M Gift, by Diana Ransom: It’s been dubbed the apology with a half-billion-dollar gift attached. In an attention-grabbing move this week, Goldman Sachs said it would launch a $500 million initiative to help small businesses with Warren Buffett as a key adviser, an announcement...

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Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy Goldman Sachs and Its Small Business Fund Ploy   —  I am a fan of Goldman Sachs.  It is one of the few individual stocks I own, running against all my standard corporate finance professor ‘buy index funds!!’ instincts.  Although we have had a surfeit of bankers and a surfeit of talent in financial engineering rather than, say, robotics, it is very scary to see [...]

9. Lawyer on Jury Talks Lawyering in Trial Involving Lawyer 3 hours ago   permalink

Ashby Jones / WSJ.com

A lawyer, selected as the jury forewoman in the McKesson criminal trial, had harsh words for some of the attorneys following the trial, which wrapped up on Thursday.

10. Green Party Member Does Well in First Round in California Special Legislative Election 5 hours ago   permalink

Richard / Ballot Access News

On November 17, California held the first round in an election to fill the vacant 72nd Assembly seat. The results: Chris Norby, Republican, 37.23%; John MacMurray, Democratic, 27.05%; Linda Ackerman, Republican, 19.67%; Richard Faher, Republican, 13.22%; Jane Rands, Green, 2.83%. Although the Green Party member’s showing, 2.83%, is not ...

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Dailykos.com Most Republicans think ACORN stole the 2008 election   —  The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack Obama legitimately won the Presidential election last year, or do you think that ACORN stole it for him?" The overall top-line is legitimately won 62%, ACORN stole it 26%. Rick Hasen / Election Law :    PPP Poll: 52% of GOP Voters Think ACORN Stole Election for Obama

11. Ouch 5 hours ago   permalink

Jonathan Siegel / PrawfsBlawg

The University of California has put faculty and staff on furloughs amounting to an average 8 per cent pay cut, and yesterday voted to raise student by 32 per cent. That's a huge increase. It's worth noting that, even after the increase, UC tuition will still be a bargain at $10,302 -- my own university charges a whopping $41,610 for ...

12. UC regents approve 32% student fee hike 5 hours ago   permalink

Www.latimes.com

The decision was made with little debate after a lengthy committee discussion Wednesday. Thousands of students and labor union activists protested outside the meeting at UCLA.

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Jonathan Siegel / PrawfsBlawg :   Ouch

13. Federal Circuit Affirms EDTex Ruling that Iovate's Muscle Building Patents are Invalid 5 hours ago   permalink

Dennis Crouch / Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)

Iovate & University of Florida Research Foundation v. Bio-Engineered Supplements & Nutrition (BSN) (Fed. Cir. 2009) ( Download 09-1018 ) Iovate is the exclusive licensee of UF's patented method for "enhancing muscle performance or recovery from fatigue." Pat. No. 6,100,287. The method includes the single step of administering a coposition that ...

14. Firefox extension for cut/paste Westlaw/Lexis citations 6 hours ago   permalink

Nipper / The Invent Blog®

I rarely use Westlaw/Lexis, but the CiteGenie FireFox extension could be really useful for those of you whom do. As their website points out: Cutting and pasting when doing legal research using your browser is simple. But having to construct the citation for what you pasted is not so simple. This is especially true with legal citations [...] ...

15. Davis Polk ‘Rock Star’ To Lead DOJ’s Fraud Section 6 hours ago   permalink

Amir Efrati / WSJ.com

A partner at Davis Polk was tapped to lead the Justice Department's fraud section, which is prosecuting or investigating many of today's biggest fraud cases, from R. Allen Stanford to American International Group.

16. Petters: ‘I Didn’t Want a Bentley. I’m Not a Bentley Guy” 7 hours ago   permalink

Ashby Jones / WSJ.com

There must be no bigger thrill as a prosecutor than getting to cross examine a defendant who’s looked the Fifth Amendment in the eye and said ‘I need you not, self-incrimination clause. I will take the stand.’

17. Best Practices for Appointments Committees 7 hours ago   permalink

Dan Markel / PrawfsBlawg

Though it's been a few years since I had to go on the meat market, I'm still pretty keen to make the process for newbies as relatively painless as possible, and this blog has been one way to try to facilitate that goal. I know a number of my perma-prawf colleagues are either veterans of or currently sitting on their schools' appointments ...

18. For Whom Do We Teach? 7 hours ago   permalink

Michael Risch / PrawfsBlawg

As the semester winds down and preparation for next semester gears up, I've had some thoughts about topic selection for my courses. For example, this year I cut "Defenses I" from the course - it was a survey of three really interesting defenses: reverse doctrine of equivalents, experimental use, and laches. They should all be really important ...

19. United Kingdom: asbestos related deaths on the rise 7 hours ago   permalink

Etoupin / Mesothelioma Watch

Mesothelioma and other asbestos related illnesses are a serious problem in just about every industrialized nation, and diagnoses continue to increase worldwide. Even though mesothelioma diagnoses are climbing dramatically both in the Unites States and abroad, readily available treatment options fail to substantially curb the very poor prognosis ...

20. A Defiant Stewart Reports to Jail 8 hours ago   permalink

Ashby Jones / WSJ.com

On Thursday evening, controversial lawyer Lynne Stewart surrendered to authorities in lower Manhattan to begin serving her 28-month sentence for assisting terrorism.