Round Up: September 2, 2011

Legal, safety and other topics that caught my interest this week. (But seriously, what are you doing reading this? You should get an early start to Labor Day Weekend!)

• Driverless Cars And Crashworthiness Under The Common Law [Maxwell Kennerly at Litigation & Trial]
• Unnatural Corn Class Action [Jonathan H. Adler at The Volokh Conspiracy]
• Social media effects SEO: Lawyers need to start living in the present [Kevin O’Keefe at Real Lawyers Have Blogs]
• Hurricane Irene: The Looming Insurance Battle [Nathan Koppel at WSJ Law Blog]
• Just how fair does justice have to be? [Michael Kirkland at UPI.com]
• Judge Blocks Implementation of Missouri Law Banning Teachers from Facebook "Friendships" with Under-18 Current or Former Students [Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy]
• Judge Stays Facebook Law [Craig Moore at This Week in Social Media Law]
• Small Firms, Big Lawyers: The Power of Small Firms [Jay Shepherd at Above The Law]
• Can We Talk About Our Profession, Just For A Minute, Please? [Brian Tannebaum at My Law License]
• New York Judges Finally Get A Pay Raise (Updated) [Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog]
• Michael Jackson’s Former Doctor Casts Spotlight Back on King of Pop [Nathan Koppel at WSJ Law Blog]
• First Circuit Has No Sympathy For Cops Who Say, "Don’t Tape Me, Bro!" [Christopher Danzig at Above The Law]
• Candidates for Mo. Supreme Court publicly screened [David A. Lieb at AP via Chron.com]
• Perry has plenty of ideas on Supreme Court, including term limits [Tod J. Gilman at MClatchy-Tribune News Service]
• CNN buys Zite, a popular iPad magazine among lawyers [Kevin O’Keefe at Real Lawyers Have Blogs]

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