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Your Irrelevance is Not My Arrogance
Posted on March 15, 2010Scott Greenfeld has the gang going at Simple Justice. Non-lawyers are furious that lawyers simply do not value their legal opinion. That's what society has come to: Non-specialists think you're arrogant for not validating them. Commenting about my post, a commenter writes: Your "update" evidences what I'm reacting to: Your clients are right to think you resent them and look...
More on the Sudden Acceleration Myth
Posted on March 13, 2010In real-time, we're learning that sudden acceleration is a myth. Yet is there anyone willing to wager that Toyota will not settle hundreds-of-millions to billions of dollars in lawsuits?
Robert Chatigny's Nomination on Hold
Posted on March 12, 2010Crooked Christoper Dodd, who is leaving the Senate in shame after taking bribes from subprime pimp Angelo Mozilo, tried sneaking longtime friend and political ally Robert Chatigny into the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. That nomination is now on hold, given Chatigny's ethically-questionable handling of a death penalty case...
FoxNews on Robert Chatigny
Posted on March 12, 2010FoxNews is now reporting about the nomination of Robert Chatigny to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The editorial is unfair, but nicely summarizes Judge Chatigny's handling of the Michael Ross case. Let's discuss why Judge Chatigny should not be elevated to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals...
Is Generation Y a Gang of Slackers?
Posted on March 12, 2010Oh yeah: Striking differences emerged for valuing leisure. GenY was much more likely than previous generations to say they wanted a job with an easy pace and lots of vacation time, and less likely to want to work overtime. They also saw work as less central to their lives and were more likely to agree that "work is just making...
Sudden Acceleration is a Myth
Posted on March 12, 2010Ted Frank's op-ed shares something that everyone seems to have ignored, and about which I was ignorant: "Sudden acceleration" is allegedly an electro-mechanical process that only seems to afflict old people: The Los Angeles Times recently did a story detailing all of the NHTSA reports of Toyota ?sudden acceleration? fatalities, and, though the Times did not mention it, the ages...
Multi-Tasking and Legal Writing
Posted on March 11, 2010Do any professional writers answer e-mails in the middle of sentence composition? Certainly no good ones. Compare a blog posting by a decent writer like Megan McArdle with a magazine article in Esquire. The quality of writing in Esquire is superior, because it's the product of sustained focus...
Lawyers and Depression
Posted on March 10, 2010Do anti-depressants work? There's a fantastic piece at the New Yorker. Norm Pattis reproduces an interview with the author of Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease. Today at Above the Law, a therapist discusses lawyers and depression...
Paul Pfingst Killed Chelsa King
Posted on March 10, 2010Ten years ago child rapist John Gardner got lost in the system. He was able to rape again, thanks to District Attorney Paul Pfingst. In a signed confession in the year 2000, John Gardner admitted he was a child predator. Ten years later he's suspected of killing Chelsea King...
War on Drugs is New Jim Crow
Posted on March 10, 2010More blacks are enslaved today than in 1850, thanks to the War on Drugs.
Women's Domestic Violence Problem
Posted on March 07, 2010I had no idea: SUMMARY: This bibliography examines 271 scholarly investigations: 211 empirical studies and 60 reviews and/or analyses, which demonstrate that women are as physically aggressive, or more aggressive, than men in their relationships with their spouses or male partners...
Hipsters Won't Grow Up
Posted on March 04, 2010For Generation X, Y, and Z, having a child no longer marks entry into adulthood: From time to time, Sasha Raven Gross can be seen teetering around a neighborhood drinking hole. She flirts with strangers, talks gibberish and sometimes spins in circles for no apparent reason until she falls down...
Why America's Immigration System is a Joke
Posted on March 04, 2010There are eleven million illegal immigrant in the United States, costing the country billions. While allowing in an entire class of people who drain the economy of tax dollars, the United States immigration system rejects these types of legal immigrants: On December 31, 2003, Poghos Kazarian, a thirty-fouryear-old native and citizen of Armenia, filed an application for an employment-based immigrant...
How Good Cops Go Bad
Posted on March 03, 2010ABC News has this fascinating interview with a police officer who explains how the pressures from above can make a good cop go bad: "Our primary job is not to help anybody, our primary job is not to assist anybody, our primary job is to get those numbers and come back with them?" said Officer Polanco...
Goldman Sachs is Crying
Posted on March 01, 2010In its latest 10-K, Goldman Sachs reported: ?The financial crisis and the current political and public sentiment regarding financial institutions has resulted in a significant amount of adverse press coverage, as well as adverse statements or charges by regulators or elected officials...
Exhibit A for the Universal Public Defender System
Posted on March 01, 2010If you're in the Middle Class and are acquitted of criminal charges, you'll be saddled with debt for another decade.
Suits at The Atlantic Ruining the Blogosphere
Posted on March 01, 2010Yes, Megan McArdle is an evil Goldman Sachs apologist who preaches slave morality (banks can ethically walk away from contracts, but average Joes and Janes cannot). I need my Two Minutes Hate. Suits at The Atlantic, bring the blogs back. The current look is awful...
Cooling the Melting Pot
Posted on February 27, 2010The failure to recognize black culture is racist. Recognizing and integrating black culture is now a form of racism: ATLANTA - A white Arkansas team?s win in a national ?stepping? contest has sparked a fierce controversy over whether the integration of a once exclusively black college tradition constitutes a form of cultural theft...
Entitlement Generation
Posted on February 24, 2010Listening to oldsters complain about everyone under 30 as "entitled" is getting old. Who caused the current Great Recession/Depression 2.0? Oldsters. Who got the big bailouts? The grey beards. Who sucks up nearly 50% of the federal budget through entitlement programs? It ain't the under-30 set...
Derivatives, the Market Meltdown, and the Bailouts
Posted on February 23, 2010You hear a lot of talk about derivatives and the housing collapse. Want a fantastic - and easy-to-understand - explanation? Here you go.
How to Turn a Parent Into a Kidnapper
Posted on February 23, 2010The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals shows you how. And if you're a cop, they even encourage it.
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class
Posted on February 22, 2010Whoa. Wish I had seen this video on Sunday morning rather than Sunday night, as it's really important stuff; and a hard sell for your Monday morning. It's an hour long, though the first 6 minutes is an intro and fluff. (The video will auto-play at the six-minute mark...
How Autistics View the Rest of Us
Posted on February 22, 2010The Wall Street Journal has a very interesting piece that flips the autism script: We are the abnormal ones, and this is how they perceive us. The entire article is interesting, although this paragraph personally resonated: "The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic," she says, "because you keep learning, you keep learning how...
Are Frivolous Lawsuits Extortionate?
Posted on February 22, 2010Today the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an extremely interesting civil RICO case. Bixler v. Mineral Energy and Technology Corporation (METCO) (CA10) (here). While the entire case is worth reading, one point of intellectual dishonesty needs highlighted: Plaintiffs assert that defendants? litigation tactics wereextortionate, with the purpose of coercing them to accept defendants? allegedlyfraudulent acts...
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Do parents have the right to NOT turn in a sexual offender?
No. The offender should be turned in regardless of any disability (1), or reason...
Can someone detained in a search w/ warrant, be charged with a crime related to the search if they were not arrested at the time of the search?
The police have fairly wide discretion on when they can make an arrest so long a...
I was a bookkeeper for a recreation center. The Center Director left and a new director took over. I went to work one day and some of my files were missing. I called our computer tech and her restored the files (I had ma
In order for a crime to be established you need to conclusively prove that the D...
If I was detained by citizens unlawfully, and then the police showed up...is everything they charged me with in-admissable?
Probably depends on the law of the state in which you live. Many states allow fo...
If I pay restitution, can I still be charged with a crime?
It sounds like the law in your area is treating it as a civil matter. That being...
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