Legal Writing

One fish, two fish, three fish, whose fish
Every once in a while I feel the need to rep-re-sent the East Coast on Slaw and the following case which was heard at the SCC on Wednesday of this week (Jan 23) does that; but it also raises an interesting question that has broader implications...

Environment - More on: "Attorney says manure could not kill 25,000 fish"
Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, on the manure spill last week that allegedly caused an estimated 25,000 fish to die in the Little Mississinewa River, the ILB has looked for other large fish kills and found this one:...

Jonah Goldberg: Jesus Fish and the Evolution of Religious Bigotry
Me? I keep thinking about Jesus fish . . . In America, these fish appear mostly on cars. Recently, however, it seems Jesus fish have become outnumbered by Darwin fish.

Bait and Switch: Investigative Report Finds 85 Percent of Tested Restaurants Substituted Cheaper Fish in Dishes
There is an interesting investigative report this week out of Kansas City. The local NBC station tested the fish in 20 restaurants to see if they were actually serving the fish on the menu...

Fish May Be Brain Food
Teenage boys who regularly eat fish may be doing their brains some good, a new study suggests. Swedish researchers found that among nearly 5,000 15-year-old boys they surveyed, those who ate fish more than once per week tended to score higher on intelligence tests three years later...

Stanley Fish on Christianity and Bankruptcy--Skeel
A student emailed me this marvelous commentary by Stanley Fish, which I hadn't seen. I'll only add two brief thoughts, since Fish speaks for himself as always: 1) the two Christian discourses Fish discusses don't strike me as necessarily at odds...

How to Stop Home Foreclosure
Bankruptcy can Stop Foreclosure

Atlantis Smoked Fish Dip
Recalled due to Possible Listeria Contamination

Haifa Smoked Fish
Issues Recall due to Possible Listeria Contamination

Golden Dragon Frozen Cooked Mackerel Fish
Clostridium botulinum Alert

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...