Headlines • Judge Blocks Online TV Streaming Service • Laptops Found More Likely to Distract 2Ls and 3Ls in Class • POM Wonderful Fighting With Rival and FTC on Two Fronts • EBay Seller Asks First Circuit to Scrap $350,000 Judgment • Brutality's the Winner in the NFL Settlement • What I Did on Summer Vacation — Restored Myself to Sanity • Law Schools Lose Luster With Ivies • VOIR DIRE: Skip to My Loo • INADMISSIBLE: Suit Challenges DOJ Over Secret Memos • Attention Facebook Users: Post at Your Own Peril A Washington judge today halted the operations of FilmOn, a controversial online television streaming service. The judge found the television broadcast networks suing FilmOn X LLC for copyright infringement were likely to succeed. The networks accused FilmOn of "exploiting…some of... Read More » Law school upperclassmen are far more likely than their first-year counterparts to spend classroom time checking Facebook, playing solitaire, scanning sports scores or otherwise goofing around on their laptop computers, according to recent research. Read More » Pomegranate juice maker Pom Wonderful LLC is taking its legal battles to the nation's highest courts, with appeals briefs due within the next month in at least three cases. Read More » Salman Ejaz agreed in 2007 to stop hawking Bose Corp. products intended for sale in the United States on the "gray market" in the European Union. So he turned to reselling Bose items through eBay in Australia, and that landed his attorneys before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit on Thursday. Read More » The tentative settlement between the National Football League and 4,500 of its former players and their families in the concussion lawsuits would be a victory for the plaintiffs lawyers and the league, but it has troubling aspects from a public policy perspective. Read More » One partner's decision to disconnect — really disconnect — put life in perspective. Read More » Another sign that the legal profession isn't what it used to be: The best and the brightest are increasingly turning up their noses at law school. Read More » The city of Portland, Ore., has its panties in a twist, so to speak, over Romtec Inc.'s Sidewalk Restrooms that mimic its copyrighted design. Plus: the eye of the beholder and marriage pressure in this week's column. Read More » The U.S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel regularly is called upon to advise executive agencies on matters ranging from the extent of executive privilege to the lawfulness of recess appointments. Plus more in this week's column. Read More » They may seem harmless at the time, but impromptu comments and photos can lead to big trouble. Read More » | 
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