• There’s money in lost personal data: “Counsel Could Rake in $5 Million from Veterans Settlement” [Weissmann/BLT]
• Commentaries on now-settled GateHouse v. NYTimes lawsuit (news organization grabs/aggregates rival’s reports) [Ardia and Lindenberger, Citizen Media Law; Nieman Journalism Lab]
• Funny and instantly recognizable: cop talk converted to human talk [Legal Antics]
• No need to worry about revival of Fairness Doctrine, they told us — uh-oh, here comes talk radio “accountability” [Patterico]
• Lenders whipped up one side of the street for too-easy credit standards, then down the other for tightening them [McArdle]
• Murder convictions for drunk drivers? Not so fast, a New York appeals court decision suggests [Greenfield]
• When no one writes a leniency letter at your sentencing, maybe problem is not so much that you’re a crooked lawyer as that you’re a powerless lawyer [YallPolitics on Tim Balducci, Mississippi]
• If lawyers strike everyone who’s griped about jury duty on Facebook “we’re going to run out of jurors really fast” [Anne Reed]

Filed under: Facebook, juries, newspapers, online speech, police, Timothy Balducci