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Not Quite Sure What This Means

Posted on February 11, 2009
T&E Professor wins the “not quite sure what that means” award: “Anna Nicole Smith was quite, quite something else.”

Law Review Packet Sales

Posted on February 11, 2009
Am I the only one that thinks it’s typical thoughtless B.S. that journal write-on competition packet sales end at 6:00 p.m. each of the days they’re for sale? Perhaps Probably unreasonable of me.

Design

Posted on February 11, 2009
Upgrade to 2.7.1 is wreaking havoc on our design. Probably my sloppy CSS. Bear with us as we get this straightened out.

News Coverage And Law Enforcement

Posted on February 11, 2009
NBC’s “To Catch A Predator” programs have been highly publicized for the men they catch trolling the Internet for sexual liaisons with young girls and boys. Cops, lawyers, clergy, excons. It seems they have unearthed - or at least shown to the public - a disturbing criminal underworld...

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Electronic Casebooks?

Posted on February 10, 2009
Amazon’s release of the Kindle 2 reminded me of something I had pondered last year: electronic casebooks. Don’t get me wrong. I get the same ego trip as you when I look up on my bookshelf and see those law books sitting there, high and mighty...

Quote of the Semester

Posted on February 10, 2009
During an in-class debate over a model pornography statute one of the advocates defending the statute said, “Look, it’s not like this statute will bring the porn industry to its knees or anything.”

What Does It Mean To Do Law Review?

Posted on February 10, 2009
Good post on what it means to do law review: Law Review / Law Journal Defined.

First Dates

Posted on February 10, 2009
YIKES! - Read Jansen’s Notes on Bad First Date.

Makeup Class

Posted on February 10, 2009
Is it really the case that our Trusts and Estates Professor scheduled a makeup class (2 hours) for a Friday night? I was there when he said. I just don’t want to believe it.

Evening Law Students and the Career Office

Posted on February 03, 2009
E-mail today from the Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD). They’re pimping 7 upcoming events (including an interesting one on alternative careers and another OCI for JAG interviews). Several are at 5:00. The rest are during business hours...

Advice for Prospective Law Students

Posted on February 02, 2009
Last week, we had a prospective law student sit in on one of our classes. It made me think of what advice we here at FTH (contributors and readers) have for prospective law students. What would you say? For my part, I thought of: Watch the movie, The Paper Chase...

The Executive Branch and Lobbying

Posted on January 30, 2009
Obviously the President seeks to influence policy. He holds the bully pulpit. He has a legislative shop (as does each federal and independent agency) that offers feedback and positions on proposed bills. He issues Statements of Administration Policy on certain bills being considered in Congress...

Trying to Get Back on the Horse

Posted on January 28, 2009
We’re all exhausted and unmotivated. That must be the worst excuse for not blogging. We’re all exhausted, right? But it’s true and, plus, we’re students and we whine. So get over it. Dr. Bombay would rather be in a Soviet gulag (being punished by his own comrades) than in class...

My Christmas Wish for Blago

Posted on December 12, 2008
The cesspool that is Chicago (and by extension Illinois) politics often leaves outsiders feeling a lot like Fortinbras at the end of Hamlet: you just can?t believe how it all could have gone so very wrong. And yet, here we are again. This week’s news that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was indicted on Federal [...

Sports Talk Radio Callers

Posted on December 09, 2008
I’m a pretty big sports talk radio fan. We have a great afternoon drive time show here in the DC market. The callers drive me nuts though. Have you heard these guys? They - and some ladies - call in and talk about how the Redskins should be calling this play and that...

Drink Up, It?s Repeal Day!

Posted on December 05, 2008
Today, in 1933, the 21st Amendment was ratified. The Amendment which repealed Prohibition reads: Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in of intoxicating liquors, in [...

How do you outline?

Posted on December 02, 2008
My title assumes that you write an outline for each class you take. I do. It’s helpful for me and memorizing it (or nearly memorizing it) is incredibly helpful. (Particularly - and sadly - for my exam tonight where our professor taught us shockingly little about the area of law she’s testing us on...

Happy Thanksgiving, You Turkeys!

Posted on November 25, 2008
I am best fried, or as part of a Turducken.The Hypo Staff will be off for a few days, preparing both to eat our body weight in bird and sides and for exams which start a week from today (yikes!). In the mean time, we wish the best for you and yours and leave you [...

Why Alaska Sucks.

Posted on November 05, 2008
Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where laws end, tyranny begins. — William Pitt Looks like the citizens of Alaska, ever fearful of having the federal teat torn from their greedy lips, have decided to return convicted felon Ted Stevens to office, [...

What of the Electoral College?

Posted on November 04, 2008
The Electoral College is awesome. No, seriously. I like it, even if it’s a bit quaint. How do you feel about it? I started thinking about it today as I entered Starbucks to claim my free coffee (which is NOT an incentive to vote), I overheard rather self-assured student at an obscenely wealthy local private school [...

Exam Advice from Bitter Lawyer

Posted on November 03, 2008
I couldn’t disagree more about the study group comment, but I thought this post contained a good point or two about keeping exam prep manageable and in perspective (go read the comments there too): I just started law school.� I?m a little freaked out about finals...

Vegas Glad For Phils Win

Posted on October 30, 2008
It’s funny how gambling keeps coming up here. Some of us here at FTH like the gambling more than others. I don’t mind it, but don’t do it all that much. It just seems to offer some good fodder for hypoing. Did you see this? Two large sports books in Las Vegas declared the Philadelphia Phillies [...

Senator for Life?

Posted on October 28, 2008
It?s not every day that a sitting U.S. Senator goes on trial for corruption. So watching Ted Stevens get clobbered with eight counts of failure to report “gifts” is something to see. Some of us had speculated that the crappy job the Feds did in putting on the case would actually set the old man [...

Law Journal Worth It?

Posted on October 22, 2008
So I’m on a law journal this year. I don’t say that to brag. Trust me. Let’s just put it this way, a friend told me that it’s good I’m being the guinea pig so the rest of our friends can see what it’s like. I got the impression she said it because it takes [...

Is The Bailout Unconstitutional?

Posted on October 21, 2008
In light of our Con Law classes on the shocking breadth of Congress’ Commerce power, I found this column by (free reg. re’d) Robert Levy on the Legal Times website quite interesting In it he contends that the bailout was short-sighted and, most importantly, unconstitutional...

The Law School Journey: Some Positive Things

Posted on October 13, 2008
I have the highest of hopes to have regular features on this blog. But they typically get lost in the law school shuffle. This is one that I hope will last. I’m not making any promises but it is already at least a recurring theme - if not explicit feature - in my writing here...

In Praise of Luke Gilman and ESPN360.com

Posted on October 09, 2008
We sincerely hope that our fellow 2L (at the University of Houston), Luke Gilman, will forgive our reposting his resolution praising ESPN360. His resolution is brilliant. We so strongly agree with his motivation and are so pleased that espn360.com is also available at our law school that we cannot but share in his joy and [...

Evidence Is Not The Place to Fight The Hypo

Posted on October 06, 2008
The title of this blog notwithstanding there are actually areas where you shouldn’t fight the hypo. Evidence is one such time. As BigShow has intimated, it’s not the best class we’ve ever had. But it’s an important topic and our professor approaches the exam the way more professors should - it’s like the Bar [...

Overheard in Law School This Week

Posted on October 03, 2008
Quotes of the week from law school: Crim Law Professor: “Yes. Orgy killings are bad.” Con Law Professor: “Well, lots of stuff is unconstitutional. It just hasn’t been litigated yet.” Classmate’s facebook status: “What is it about this class that makes time stand still?”

Sarah Palin (hearts) Privacy.

Posted on October 02, 2008
If you?re anything like me, you have grown increasingly tired of the ?Sarah Palin/Katie Couric? show that CBS seems to have been running longer than ?Survivor.? But one really interesting item of note from last night?s session was that when Couric asked Palin if she believed that the Constitution contained an inherent right of privacy, [...

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