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Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches.

That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices continue to cause mistrials, overturned convictions and chaotic delays in court proceedings.

Last year a San Francisco Superior Court judge dismissed 600 potential jurors after several acknowledged going online to research the criminal case before them.

Mark Magnier in the Los Angeles Times:

From The Nation:

California lawmakers are eager to harpoon the great white whale that is Amazon.com to force it to pay sales tax on every HDTV and Kindle it sells here. But those efforts could ensnare scores of smaller fish: mom-and-pop Internet businesses that rely on Amazon and other e-tailers for their livelihood.

The e-commerce behemoth has avoided paying sales tax in California because it has no offices, stores or warehouses in the state.

But California contends that Amazon does have a presence here.

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Lawrence Lessig in The Nation:

Ronald Dworkin in the New York Review of Books:

Ronald Dworkin in the New York Review of Books:

Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation:

Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation: