March2016

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law)  — DLA Piper has been developing a new hybrid legal service business model with Lawyers On Demand in the UK, and this month Piper has expanded the model into Australia. Mark...

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Hi folks, here’s your IP news update for the week: Oracle, who is suing Google for copyright infringement over the use of certain parts of Java language, will ask the...

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — For a brief and shining moment starting last October, it seemed as if criminal law reform was possible. Everybody was talking about it, from the pompously named “Law Enforcement Leaders...

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Want to get arrested in Parma, Ohio for the sort of thing that would cause the average person to respond, “suck it up, buttercup?” Just make fun of the Parma...

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — At a press conference last week, advocates from the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR) called for the repeal of Georgia’s “felony driving law,” which they allege has encouraged...

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Here’s the scenario: It’s a beautiful, scolding hot morning in Miami, and a misdemeanor DUI trial is about to begin.  After both sides announce ready for trial, defense counsel requests...

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The Michigan Supreme Court just issued an opinion upholding police officers’ creative eyesight. It’s a fairly routine case, as these things go, but it’s a great example of how law...

Mar. 31, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Morning folks, the links today: Fort Worth, TX, released police footage of the shooting of black man Craigory Adams by white Officer Courtney Johnson in June 2015. Johnson, responding to...

Mar. 30, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — In 1952, John Tudor premiered John Cage’s controversial three-movement 4’33” in Woodstock, New York. The piece is composed for any instrument and requires the performer to not play their instrument...

Mar. 30, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — The Washington Post published an article on Monday by Rick Noack profiling yet another commission calling for the decriminalization of drugs.  The commission, headed by Johns Hopkins University and The Lancet,...