December 6 roundup

• TSA: design of gun on purse is “replica gun” [Radley Balko]
• “Note: Before Attaching Ankle Monitor, Make Sure Leg Is Real” [Lowering the Bar]
• “Harm to others” rationale seems to fall by wayside as Boston bans workplace use of e-cigarettes [Jacob Sullum]
• “Should legislation protect the obese?” [NYT "Room for Debate"]
• German town drops charges against Pope Benedict XVI for failure to wear seat belt in Popemobile [WaPo, Lowering the Bar, Irish Times]
• Ninth Circuit agrees to review litigation seeking court takeover of vets’ mental care [SFChron, WSJ Law Blog, earlier]
• The shaky science of “shaken baby syndrome” [Pfaff, Prawfs, ABA Journal, earlier here, here] Jerry Brown should pardon dubiously convicted grandmother [Emily Bazelon, Slate]

Tagged as: Boston, Catholic Church, Germany, guns, obesity, seatbelts, tobacco