Everyone has been blogging about this salon story, regarding donations by federal judges to the republicans who later put them on the bench.
$44,000 / 24 = $1834. I can’t really agree with the implied conclusion (i.e. that all of these judges are necessarily dirty) of the Salon article, because I don’t think that $1800 is [...]
Archive for October, 2006
buy yourself the job of a lifetime
Posted in prejudice, privacy on October 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
washing my mind out with soap
Posted in civil procedure, prejudice on October 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I had an awkward experience the other night, reading a case for class. It came about because we were assigned Youn v. Track for CivPro. It was a case about discovery abuse and sanctions. One of the thorny issues that we teased out in class was the way the plaintiffs, Youn and his brother-in-law, [...]
DWI + manslaughter = Murder
Posted in criminal law on October 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
At least in New York. We’ve just started talking about homicide in Crim Law class, and one of the things we learned last week was that in general, the dividing line between murder and manslaughter is whether the one who kills does so on purpose, or is just careless or reckless in their actions. Stated [...]
Calling it Cracker Barrel is just asking for it
Posted in civil procedure, torts on October 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
This case is timely in two ways. We read about a slip-and-fall case involving CB in torts this week, and today we spent a little bit of time talking about racism and judicial impropriety in Youn v. Track. So I’m amused that today brought a lawsuit joining these two themes together in a [...]
Cory is on a roll today
Posted in contracts on October 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This sort of thing is what makes the internet a wonderful place. One of Cory’s students set up a blog to collect egregious EULA’s that people find, just walking around in meatspace, and opened it to the internet to collect examples from other people. I’m bookmarking it now, on what looks like day [...]
not for resale
Posted in copyright, first sale doctrine on October 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If I gave you a book, but I told you that you could only read pages 10-24, you would think I was crazy. If I sold you a car, but I told you that I was keeping the rights to drive in second gear, you’d laugh at me. So why is it ok for people [...]
John Yoo defends torture
Posted in civil procedure on October 4, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Habeus corpus? Yeah, we used to have that, but we got rid of it becuase it’s too expensive.
