Thursday, May 24, 2012

The Common Law of Pit Bulls: Maryland’s Highest Court Imposes Strict Liability Without a Statute

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Faced with a gruesome attack and lacking a strict liability statute to apply to the landlord, whose tenants’ dogs were responsible for the...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Some Bills before Congress Will Help Dogs, Some Will Help National Security, but Some Seem Designed to Help Special Interests

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One should periodically review what Congress is up to with regard to one’s interests, and even though many proposals regarding dogs are goin...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Tracking Dog’s Alert Helps Convict, but Should It Have Been Accepted as an Identification?

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When the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Harris v. Florida (Docket No. 11-817) this fall, it is likely to determine whether trainin...
Monday, April 23, 2012

Scent ID Dogs Found More Accurate in Scent Lineups of Women than of Men

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Research in which I participated appears in the May 2012 issue of the Journal of Forensic Sciences . The lead researcher was Tadeusz Jezier...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Bed Bug Beagle Dispute Lands in Federal Court

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Dixie is a beagle trained to detect bed bugs.  Dixie is owned by Western Industries-North, LLP, which provides pest detection and removal s...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

Base Commanders Begin Implementing Restrictive Army Policy on Service Animals

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Additional Note s.  In an early revision to this blog, I had added a comment that in the April-June 2012 U.S. Army Medical Department Journa...
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