• Salute to Bill Childs, who blogged with distinction at TortsProf, on departing academia for private practice [Sheila Scheuerman and Chris Robinette]
• North Carolina voters who know that Amendment One would ban civil unions oppose the measure by 22 points; unfortunately, most don’t know that [Greg Sargent, WaPo; earlier] Patrick at Popehat proposes 5 things Tar Heels can do to help defeat it;
• Cellphone app to hail nearby taxi? DC government searches for a way to keep that illegal [Julian Sanchez, Cato at Liberty]
• Can’t the left-wing Alliance for Justice be at least minimally consistent on Supreme Court ethics? [Freedman, Legal Ethics Forum]
• On lawyer jokes [David Conway and commenters, Law and Liberty]
• “2,000 patents have been granted for shaped pasta” [Doctorow; see also Martin Weiss (“It pays to noodle around in the lab”)]
• Texas barratry law trips up state rep [Southeast Texas Record, ABA Journal]

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