New York Personal Injury Law Blog » Random Notes

 

January 24th, 2008

Random Notes

• Blawg Review #143 is up at Public Defender Blog, with Gideon’s take on Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• FindLaw’s Marci Hamilton on the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold New York’s way of picking judges in NYS Board of Elections v. Lopez-Torres;

• Actor Tom Arnold fights to have his legal bills paid after being wrongfully linked to a to a sexual-harassment suit, and enlists a 24 year old producer to have sex to help smooth the way;

• The award for Best Medical blog goes to Paul Levy at Running a Hospital. In case you don’t know, Levy is the CEO of Beth Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, a top medical institution affiliated with Harvard, and has been busily pulling the curtain back on many of the secret problems, some of which cause injury and death;

• The Macintosh turns 24 today, as The Mac Lawyer reminds us. Apple and gave us the graphical interface we all now use. It was introduced in 1984 during Super bowl XVIII with this legendary Orwellian commercial (Director: Ridley Scott; Hammer Thrower was Anja Major, a discus thrower):