From Zero to DUI A Lot Faster
CNN reports that the National Transportation Safety Board wants the states to lower the legal blood-alcohol limit for a DUI from 0.08 to 0.05. A decade ago, it was lowered from 0.10 to 0.08, a de facto mandate from the…
Those AP Phone Records
I'm trying to be shocked by the story that the Department of Justice obtained several months worth of phone records from several Associated Press offices, including five reporters and an editor. First, what we don't know: What was being investigated?Did…
High-conflict custody cases losing Parenting Coordinator option
Pennsylvania's experiment with Parenting Coordination for high-conflict custody disputes is over. The PA Supreme Court has declared all Parenting Coordination orders and programs vacated, effective May 23, 2013. Pennsylvania Rule of Civil Procedure 1915.11-1 was adopted April 23, 2013, effective…
Michigan Judge holds self in contempt
Judge Raymond Voet in Ionia County, Michigan, has a simple courtroom rule: any device that goes off in court earns the owner a contempt citation. Rules like this cut down on disruptions and engender a reverence for the courts that…
Moving up the start date
I'm opening my doors on March 4th! My original plan was to open the Law Office of Justin P. Miller on April 2, 2013. I could have opened on April 1 — after all, it worked out pretty well for…
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
A series of recent events have coincided to bring to the surface the contradictions of our modern Surveillance State. In this post-Patriot Act age of widespread surveillence, when the State argues it should even be able to attach a GPS…
Dragged kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat
Another state joins the civilized world.
Are you mad for what they did to you?
Raymond Daniel Towler spent nearly 29 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. Writing in Esquire, Mike Sager shares Ray's story of hardship, hope, and vindication. It is a heartrending portrait of what happens when we get it…
Union Busting and the Constitution
Salon.com: The real threat to union-busting: The constitution.The Democratic state senators who are hiding out across state lines in Illinois are a major problem for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his effort to push a bill stripping public employees of…
You don’t mess with the Money
When creating your particular whiz-bang, social-network, made-of-awesome, Web-n+1 site, you don't mess with the Money. As Brian McCarthy learned, it has an entire government to send after you: When the US government decides to take down a website offering access…