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Harry Reid has introduced a bill that would help pay for health care by taxing elective cosmetic surgery. There are, however, exceptions to the tax spelled out in the bill. Senator Tom Coburn, however, used the bill as the basis for a rant saying it would tax women who have breast reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy. Truth be told, the bill exempts taxes surgeries “not necessary to ameliorate a deformity arising from, or directly related to, a congenital abnormality, a personal injury resulting from an accident or trauma, or disfiguring disease.” It would seem that breast cancer would qualify under a disfiguring disease, although that’s not certain from the language of the bill.

It’s safe to say Sen. Coburn may be wrong in his characterization, but the question raised is still valid. Does the government have the right to decide what is elective and what is not? Should they be able to tax based on that determination? Read more about Sen. Coburn’s take at msnbc dot com.

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Can’t we all just get along? In a fascinating story about Internet law, two personal injury law firms from Minnesota are suing each other. One firm is claiming trademark infringement because the other firm, a competitor, is showing ads for its firm when searchers on Google and Yahoo search for the first firm’s name. In other words, he said, she said, they said, what he said. At any rate, the case is garnering national attention because of the implications to Internet law. Is it trademark infringement for a company to bid on a competitor’s name with Google advertising? There have been plenty of cases where a company sues Google for allowing it, and Google has typically accomodated these concerned companies. But there has never been a case where one side sues the person bidding on the phrases. Frank Pasternak tell more:

Habush, Habush & Rottier, an old-guard Wisconsin personal injury law firm, is suing Cannon & Dunphy, another such firm for paying Google to link to the Cannon & Dunphy website when Google user searchs the name Habush or Rottier. It’s actually quite interesting given that the Habush law firm was one of the first to advertise quite heavily on T.V. here in Wisconsin, but was one of the last among major Wisconsin personal injury law firms to start advertising on the web. For example, this attorney is aware of the fact that within the last year or so the Habush law firm paid someone to create a network of somewhat generic blogs on the web.

Apparently, some of the underlying facts of the Habush, Habush & Rottier lawsuit are true. I just went to both Google and Yahoo and searched Habush and Rottier and the sponsored results on both searches had the Cannon & Dunphy website listed as “sponsored results.” Per the MJS article, Habush has asked a Wisconsin court to stop the Cannon firm from paying for such search results.

It’s an interesting case, and one not likely to go very far. But stranger things have happened. Evan Schaeffer also discusses the case.