Jan 25, 2010 1
Monday law blog round-up
By: Caryn Tamber
Happy warm-but-rainy Monday!
- Let’s move on from the Judge Nalley tire saga, writes Ron Miller.
- “Courts seem to have difficulty with the concept that a member of one minority group may discriminate against a member of the same group on the basis of ‘color,’” says Baltimore employment lawyer Mary Keating.
- Pennsylvania hasn’t executed anyone since 1999, even though governors have signed death warrants for many, many inmates over the years. HT: How Appealing.
- Manhattan’s a hotspot for people changing their names to go with their changed genders. (Sometimes, prisoners troll the name-change advertisements for dates. Yikes.) HT: Baltimore Crime.
- Does tossing bodily fluids and waste on the floor for prison staffers to clean up constitute assault? The New Hampshire Supreme Court will take up the question.



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