Federal Judiciary

Loblaw Has Left the Building

By Robert Loblaw

Decision of the Day began in October 2005, when I started stockpiling posts to see whether I could keep up the frenetic pace of blogging. I decided that I could and, for the most part, I did. The website went live in November 2005, and I never looked back.

Sure, I took some breaks . . . a week for a wilderness camping trip here, a couple of days for childbirth there . . . but for the past thirty months, I have spent almost every weekday reading newly published appellate decision from all thirteen circuits and picking one or two to try to bring to life for my readers.

1275 posts later, it is time to say farewell to the frenzy.

I am thankful to the wonderful people at eNotes for hosting this blog since January 2006 and making it worth my while to continue for so long. And I am very thankful to all of the bloggers who have linked to Decision of the Day, sometimes offering praise, sometimes offering sheer disdain, but mostly just offering me the reassurance that there were people out there who cared about what I was writing. Extra special thanks go out to Howard Bashman and Mike from Crime and Federalism, who both managed to find and link to Decision of the Day within minutes of it going live, pulling me out of obscurity and into the brights lights of the blawgosphere far quicker than I had ever dreamed.

And finally, a huge thanks to all of my readers. Trust me when I say I will miss you more than you will miss me.

Full post as published by Decision of the Day on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).