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The Daily Memo - 5/19/06
According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, it’s ok for cops to force suspects to drink laxatives in order to recover swallowed drugs. (ABC News)
Kraft Foods is being sued for allegedly including a rodent tooth in a pack of peanuts. (Chicago Sun-Times)
A Missouri town has rejected a proposal which would allow unmarried couples with multiple kids to live together, and the mayor has said that people in this situation may soon be evicted. (FindLaw)
The US Patent and Trademark Office has ordered a reexamintation of Amazon’s “one-click” patent, the controversial patent covering one-click online shopping. (IGDMLGD)
The DOJ put the kibash on an offshore Internet gambling ring which had pulled in $2.5 billion. (SiliconValley.com)
The National Gallery of Art has admitted to copyright infringement in using the unauthorized research materials of two art scholars in its catalogues. (CopyBites)
A Los Angeles grand jury has indicted a law firm, in a 102-page indictment, for an alleged scheme that netted millions of dollars in kickbacks. (LawInfo)
A Kentucky juror has been thrown in the clink for sending an e-mail to the case’s defense lawyer to say that he thought the state’s case sucked. (WLKY)
Smartest criminal of the week (other than the Bentonville guy we told you about earlier)? The man who stole the identity of a sex offender. (Tennessean)
