Bay Blogger alum The Legal Reader's got quite a claim to fame now -- he helped capture Darren Mack, that guy in Reno who stabbed his wife, shot the family court judge that ruled against him, and then fled to Mexico. Dang, the Blotter does nothing. So an innocuous post of the Reader's from 2004, about George Bush's bad federal judicial nominees, somehow turned into one of the top places for people to post comments......

This is kind of a correction, kind of an apology, and kind of hilarious. Yesterday, while hunting up links for our Bay Area Blog Pulse, we were cruising Bloglines. The funny thing about RSS -- even if you've deleted something from your blog, once it's posted, it goes out over the wire. And apparently, if you're a MovableType user, once you've deleted something from your blog, the permalink doesn't necessarily die, either. So we......

Left in SF is the first on the scene with the liveblog from today's citywide wifi hearings — look for a full recap here at SFist tomorrow. Anil Dash takes a long look at a recent WSJ article about Project Guttenberg, praising the tone of the piece and making some comparisons to the Google Books project. Leland "Video Game Violence" Yee gives mad props to DiFi and OG Lantos for expanding the GGNRA in......

Well, the fine folks over in the Presidio who run the Internet Archive are being sued, along with Philadelphia firm Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey. It seems that the firm used the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" to turn up old webpages from the Healthcare Advocates website (which is kind of like a web design wayback machine) while preparing a trademark infringement defense for their client Health Advocates. Well, Healthcare Advocates says that the Internet......

Three estranged lesbian couples presented their cases to the California Supreme Court in San Francisco yesterday, seeking legal clarification [via The Legal Reader] on their rights as parents. Two women are seeking custody and one woman is seeking child support from their former partners. Justice Ming W. Chin brought up how legal statutes which refer to 'mother and father' might need to be rewritten, and Justice Janice Rogers Brown, who is one of George......

When we saw the headline "Sex-Slave Win Leads to Malpractice Suit" on The Legal Reader (who reads Law.com so that we don't have to), we just had to take a closer look at the article by Justin Sheck. Why would clients who had won a multi-million dollar settlement go after their attorneys for malpractice? Would heroic lawyers fighting for the aggrieved family of a daughter who died at the hands of a man who......

Today's extra special someone got drunk with coworkers at five and forgot to post on time edition of our Bay Blogger feature, we call The Legal Reader to order. Local blogger and lawyer John takes on cases of interest in the news. With daily posts and sage commentary, John provides a valuable service the Court TV crowd while they're trapped at the office. Posts are usually excerpts from newspaper articles, wire services and legal rulings, generally about the personalities in the courtroom and precedent setting cases. It's a great digest for the news junky or legal gossip. He's particularly harsh on misbehaving judges and corrupt lawyers, and keeps a spotlight on local issues like Fajitagate. Plus he's been posting daily since all the way back in 2002, before most people had even heard the word 'blog,' making his archives a great resource for searching on older news stories, too....

if you have $5000 to blow, John Kerry is having a fundraising lunch in the City....