American property law is not meant to protect the little people. This is not a legal blog, so I’ll spare you the details, but just trust me on this one: property law protects the interests of rich people. Studying for the California Bar Exam this summer and having to study property law for the second [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Law School'
She Is A Real American
May 15th, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Law School, Law and Justice, Politics, Supreme Court
I could not support more strongly the idea that we need as much diversity as possible on the Supreme Court, and not just along the race/gender/religion/sexual orientation axes that we normally talk about. I understand that it’s difficult to get a cross-section of America on a nine-member body, but any time the president has an [...]
Tags: Bill O'Reilly·Dahlia Lithwick·diversity·Elena Kagan·Ivy League·Kathleen Parker·Paul Waldman·real America·Ruth Bader Ginsburg·Supreme Court·Tea Parties·white men
Better Late Than . . . Once, 14 Years Ago
February 17th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Law School, Law and Justice, Supreme Court
Weirdly enough, a new challenge to Proposition 209 is underway in federal court. Prop two-oh-what, you say? Yes, Ward Connerly’s hilarious parody “civil rights” initiative of 1996, which prohibited public institutions in California from considering race, sex, and ethnicity EVER (except when they do, constantly), is being called unconstitutional. It’s like some law student was [...]
Tags: 1990s·affirmative action·Beverly Hills 90210·civil rights·Doritos·ethnicity·Garth Brooks·George Washington·Grutter v. Bollinger·I Love The 90s·John Roberts·Ninth Circuit·Potomac·Proposition 209·race·Ricci·Samuel Alito·sex·Supreme Court·The Coyote·The Road Runner·UCLA·UCLA Law·Ward Connerly
The Sad, Untriumphant Return of Lying to Make Friends
January 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · AR, Arts and Entertainment, Law School, Politics, Supreme Court
Due to a combination of final papers, holidays, cross-country and cross-state travel, the start of a new semester, and good old-fashioned laziness, Lying to Make Friends has been silent for the past month. That silence has been extended for the past week because all of the top stories in the news, with the exception of [...]
Tags: bone-crushing depression·corporations·crisis of democracy·David Letterman·Haiti·health care·health care reform·John Edwards·laziness·Scott Brown·Supreme Court
Taking Money From the Poor
November 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AR, Law School
Watching and reading about last week’s protests at UCLA and Berkeley over proposed (now adopted) increases in tuition and fees, I couldn’t help thinking of the scene in Big Fish where Steve Buscemi’s character ropes Ewan McGregor’s character into helping him rob a bank, but the bank turns out not to have any money. My [...]
Tags: Berkeley·Big Fish·California·constitutional convention·organized labor·Steve Buscemi·student protests·UCLA·University of California
More Lovey-Dovey Law Stuff
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Law School
Torts reform fanatics, eat your hearts out. This case is not only delightfully frivolous, but also hilarious. Meet Albert Freed, who lives on Dog Track Road in Pensacola, and whose life is generally horrible. He sold thousands of dollars in diet products and was then awarded the worst prize ever: a week in a hotel [...]
Tags: Albert Freed·Freed v. Haines·Haines·torts reform·underwear
This Is What I Love About The Law
October 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · AS, Law School, Law and Justice
Every now and then I’m reading a case, and I come across something like this, from the statement of facts in State v. Rose, 612 S.E.2d 336 (N.C. Ct. App. 2005): A half-hour later, defendant arrived at the checkpoint, driving a car also occupied by Kevin Davis and Richard Wilson, who is a paraplegic. Deputy [...]
Tags: Fourth Amendment·gang symbols·Judge Geer·mounted marlins·taxidermy
Things That Are Easier in Movies
July 14th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Arts and Entertainment, Law School, Politics, Technology
When it was revealed this weekend that a secret CIA program had been kept secret for eight years under direct orders by Dick Cheney, I was like, say no more. I’ve seen Blade Runner, you don’t have to hold my hand through this. According to the New York Times: The report that Mr. Cheney was [...]
Tags: 1970s·Blade Runner·CIA·Dick Cheney·Harrison Ford·replicants·secret assassinations
Well, If the 5th Circuit Says So
June 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Law School, Law and Justice
A district judge in Pennsylvania recently issued an opinion refusing to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against KBR brought by the family of a soldier electrocuted in Iraq. I found it interesting the judge felt the need to include a citation for the following proposition: “Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United [...]