Maclean Bill returns to Commons on FridayDavid Maclean MP's Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill will be debated again this Friday (May 18th) when its report stage continues in the Commons.The Bill would remove Parliament from the scope of the Freedom of Information Act and create a new exemption for MPs' communications with public authorities. [read post]

 Also reviewed in the Tribune is Bruce Lawrence's The Koran in English: A Biography.Reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books is Heather Ann Thompson's Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. [read post]

(ITC 337 Law Blog) Academic perspectives on issues raised in Bilski case (IP Osgoode) Star Scientific teaches a valuable lesson to all IP share investors (IAM) US Patents – Decisions CAFC: Appealing BPAI rejections to the Federal Circuit: In re Baggett (nonprecedential) (Patently-O) CAFC: Preliminary injunctions and obviousness in design patent law: Titan Tire Corp v Case New Holland, Inc (Patently-O) District Court N D Illinois: Post-filing assignment cannot create standing:… [read post]

The following chart applies the All Items Consumer Price Index for Canada to the first year annual tuition reported in the 2004 Study for 1997/9 and 2003/4, to the 2014 tuition as reported by Macleans Magazine a [read post]

INTRODUCTION In the first of these two Slaw posts, I wrote about the two inquiries into Ontario Court of Justice (“OCJ”) judge Donald McLeod’s alleged misconduct. [read post]