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The Federal Government has given explanations over the pump price increase of petrol in the country. Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed made this revelation at a press briefing after the weekly the Federal Executive Council(FEC) meeting, chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday. He said the increase from N86.50 to N145 per litre was a painful […]

Reports reaching us states that the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC) has again been shut down.According to sources, the decision was reached after militants blew up the crude line that links it to the Kaduna refinery, a senior official of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has said.The Warri Refinery was producing two million […]

A lawyer for the evangelical group American Freedom Law Center has lost his Obamacare suit in the D.C. Circuit on the grounds of lack of standing. The appellate court ruled that the AFLCA and Robert Muise, it’s co-founder and senior counsel, failed to prove beyond the standard of probability that the Health and Human Service’s […]Read More

How accurate must a broken translation be in order for actual consent to be granted for a vehicle search? This question was the very center of a recent ruling by the Seventh Circuit which decided that the iPhone’s iTranslate app can be used to obtain consent in lieu of warrant for an automobile search. It […]

“What, they rejected me?? How Dare they!” If the above sentence is representative of your usual reaction whenever you receive a rejection letter from a prospective employer, we applaud your self-esteem. But most people aren’t blessed with such a sense of self-importance. For most lawyers (indeed, people), looking for a job and waiting for the […]

Here’s an interesting case out of the Sixth Circuit fit for a bar exam question analysis. The Sixth Circuit affirmed a dismissal of case against an Ohio county whose officers had allegedly used “invalid warrants” to arrest “exotic dancers” over various time periods for crimes ranging from prostitution to drug distribution to witness intimidation. Each […]Read More

It’s a war out there in cyberspace. Everyone is vying for a piece of the pie — customer eyeballs and dollars. But what are some steps that the honest solo attorney can utilize to fight against that most annoying of opportunists, the cybersquatter? But you don’t have to give up when a cybersquatter takes over […]

You Google yourself. Go ahead, admit it. We all do. (Some people, I hear, even Bing themselves.) But what if the Internet got your information wrong, giving you and everyone who Googled you an inaccurate view of your life? Do you have any recourse? For Thomas Robins, the chosen remedy was a lawsuit. When the […]

For some lawyers, social media networks are a way to reach potential customers and build their name. For others, they’re a treasure trove of helpful evidence, with the errant Facebook post becoming the modern-day smoking bullet. There’s no escaping the fact that social media is a major part of today’s legal ecosystem. Master it, with […]Read More

A few months ago, the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency was widely dismissed. Now, the Donald has become the presumptive Republican nominee, giving him a not-insignificant chance at ruling the most powerful country in the world — and selecting its Supreme Court justices. And while Senate Republicans have stalled the nomination of Merrick Garland, […]

The world’s most popular social networking company just hired a sitting judge to join its legal team instead of turning to the legal gray matter of other Silicon Valley companies, according to the Wall Street Journal. It’s a nice touch. The hiring of that judge, U.S Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal, hardly seems coincidental. After […]Read More

You’ve heard about “the cloud,” but what is it exactly? Simply put, someone else’s computer. Or rather, computer farm. The cloud allows you to store and access a virtually unlimited amount of information remotely, without having to build up any of the infrastructure on your own. The cloud isn’t just going to transform the way […]Read More