By: Danielle Ulman

Good morning. Here’s all the legal Web news that’s fit to re-post:

• Judge M. Blane Michael, of the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, has died.
• An opinion from Maryland’s top court last week ruling that signatures on petitions need not be legible, could trigger a spate of new ballot initiatives come 2012.
• A gender identity bill has advanced in the House.
• 7th Circuit serves up every lawyer’s worst nightmare.
• Warning: beware of flawed statistics.
• In a Harry Potter-esque twist, one of the judge’s portraits in a Baltimore County court is haunted. No sign of a Nearly-Headless Nick sighting, though.
• Rocker Bret Michaels is suing CBS and organizers of the Tony Awards, claiming that a set piece that hit his head during the awards show in 2009 caused his brain hemorrhage.