UK based crime reseach site

Some excellent articles at Crime-Research.org, like one entitled Footprints on the disk, which looks at how common computer-based evidence has become in British courtooms.

When is recusal appropriate?

When should a judge recuse himself or herself from a case? I'm afraid we have some confusion on the subject after a five day long hunting trip shared by a Supreme Court Justice and The Vice President, who is a party to a case that will appear before the Court. Findlaw has an thought provoking article on the subject: Why Justice Scalia Is Wrong To Refuse to Recuse Himself From a Case Involving Dick Cheney and His Energy Task Force

Disappearing Neighborhoods

I'm posting this story as a reminder to me to schedule a lunchtime visit to the Delaware Historic Society during lunch one day this week to see a new exhibit that displaying 1930s East Side captured on film. Looks like a great show.

Time for Delaware Bicyclists to speak up

If you like biking around the First State your chance is at hand to get a say on planning paths. Three workshops will be held this week on the Delaware Bicycle Facility Master Plan - one in each county. The first is on Monday in Stantion. The second on Tuesday in Dover, and the third in Georgetown on Wednesday.

Chilling dissent

This seems surreal. A lawyers' activist group and attendees of a group protesting the war have been issued subpoenas from the federal government. Campus security records have also been sought regarding the meeting. The story out of the Iowa Times Union is entitled Feds win right to war protesters' records. Frightening stuff.

Well about time, Rick

Several years ago I stood up and spoke at the annual planning conference for the Secretary of State and the Registered Agent companies, urging public online access for general corporate information. I advised that it would be in keeping with world-wide practices of putting useful information at the fingertips of the public. And, I said the other states (Delaware's competitors) are doing it.

I was met with cold resistance and silence.

In today's News Journal, the Division of Corporation announced that now we have this type of public access. Hurray! I am very pleased. You can now get basic corporate existence information free and online. Other services and certain copies of documents are available online also, but at a charge. Here is a link that you may find helpful for the Division of Corporations - Online Corporate Information.

What common sense and good government could not accomplish, was accomplished by AT&T turning off the switch to the antiquated 900 phone system that the State was using for requests for this information previously. So it seems, like too many other things, the actions of bureaucrats are driven more by convenience and necessity than they are by sound progressive judgment.

such is solo practice

Life as a solo lawyer... is not extremely predictable. I haven't written much these last few weeks because I have been immersed in a case. Sometimes they have a way of taking over our lives for a period of time. Well, my part of that case is now completed. Whew!

I am peeking out into the real world now like Punxsutawney Phil.