• Update: “Tax Panel Rejects Lawyer’s Bid to Deduct Spending for Sex” [NYLJ, William Barrett/Forbes, earlier] And: “Musings on laws affecting adult entertainment, alcoholic beverages and other ‘vice’ industries” [Meeting the Sin Laws blog]
• Mississippi: judge jails lawyer for not saying Pledge of Allegiance [Freeland]
• More on much-written-about Israeli “rape by fraud” case [Volokh, more, earlier here and here]
• “Tribune bankruptcy talks complicated by emergence of pugnacious hedge fund” [Romenesko; earlier on involvement of hedge funds in bankruptcies]
• More disturbing tales from Connecticut probate court [Rick Green, Hartford Courant, earlier]
• Marc Williams of the Defense Research Institute responds to Ted Frank’s criticism of many defense lawyers [PoL]
• Advice for Australians: to fix your litigation system, look to Germany’s success [Ackland, Sydney Morning Herald]
• Rep. John Hall (D-N.Y.) & ’70s band Orleans threaten suit against GOP remix [“Orleans Reunion Tour“]

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