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Tying a will with red tape

December 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

One of the most important document fraud protection devices is using “red tape” to tie and seal a legal document. Once the document has been tied and sealed it is virtually impossible to alter the document without destroying it and making such destruction known to anyone who comes into possession of the document.
This method was […]

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Tags: Business law · Estates and Probate · Evidence · Ruminations

Defamation in the blogosphere

December 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Are you responsible if some anonymous poster writes a comment about someone on a blog and it is defamatory? It is certainly true if you own the blog and you write a posting on the blog that you are responsible for the legal consequences of your authorship, but if a third party writes […]

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Tags: Defamation - libel and slander · Internet law and blogs · Ruminations

Restorative Justice

December 1st, 2007 · No Comments

The Restorative Justice movement aims at reevaluating the criminal justice system and undertaking reforms to make justice not a punitive undertaking that views punishment through incarceration as the fundamental means to justice but one that sees more proactive approaches such as rehabilitation, transitional services, family support services, pre-trial services and fair representation of defendants in […]

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Tags: Restorative Justice · Ruminations

Go to college in Second Life?

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

It appears possible to relive (or attend) college all over again in the 3-D emersive environment known as “Second Life“.
It appears that this simulation is not one of the many University campuses that exist on Second Life that are sponsored by actual institutes of higher learning, it is more of a game simulation site where […]

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Tags: Intellectual property · Ruminations

The vagarities of immigration processing

November 27th, 2007 · No Comments

The USCIS has recently announced — yet again — another delay in the initial processing of immigration petitions and applications. This seems to be linked to the sudden huge increase in processing fees on July 30, 2007 causing a huge influx in naturalization applications to be filed right before the increase went into effect. […]

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Tags: Immigration Law · Ruminations