Bookworm on May 21 2008 | Filed under: Judges, Law, Uncategorized
I went to law school in the days when students still took notes by hand. When I started practicing law, secretaries had computers at their desks, but no lawyers did. My first law firm used a “Wang” word processing system, which was really nothing more than a typewriter on the screen. The [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2008 | Filed under: Democrats, Law
When I was a young lawyer and an avid Democrat, I was just thrilled that Bill Clinton and his wife were both lawyers. It seemed to vindicate my career decision. As I’ve become less enthralled with being a lawyer, and as the lawyer politicians have proven adept at parsing the truth (”it depends [...]
Bookworm on Mar 16 2008 | Filed under: Islam, Law, Media matters, Multiculturalism, Muslim violence
From the every first paragraph of a lengthy New York Times Magazine article about Sharia law, you know you’re in for an intellectually dishonest voyage through the multi-culti mindset of the New York Times, this time as put forward by Noah Feldman who is, unsurprisingly, a law professor at that bastion of liberal think, Harvard. [...]
Bookworm on Mar 12 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Judges, Judicial activism, Law
Edward Whelan, after pointing out that a President Obama would have the potential to appoint up to six new Supreme Court justices, looks at Obama’s rhetoric about the Constitution and the law, and uses that information to explain clearly what type of justices Obama would appoint:
[I]n setting forth the sort of judges he would appoint, [...]
Bookworm on Feb 13 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Law
Two excellent articles out of England about the folly behind the Archbishop’s idea:
Our British laws are there to protect Muslim women
What parallel sharia means in practice
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Bookworm on Feb 10 2008 | Filed under: Britain, England, Islam, Law
I was trying to set up a post that selectively quotes from Melanie Phillips’ articles explaining the utter insanity behind the Archbishop of Canterbury’s muddled remarks about bringing sharia law into the British legal system — but I couldn’t. Each paragraph is so information-packed and important that (a) I couldn’t pick what to quote [...]
Bookworm on Jan 15 2008 | Filed under: Law
If you want to witness the interesting spectacle of my going from a fairly mild mannered, motherly lawyer type, to a screaming, foaming-at-the-mouth harridan, mention one acronym: MCLE. This stands for Minimum Continuing Legal Education, which I found an inconvenience when I was a big firm attorney and that I find an economic and time [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2007 | Filed under: Judges, Law
I am not conversant with the details of the Patriot Act, nor am I a Constitutional lawyer. I simply find it interesting that, more often than not, when a Federal District Court judge rules something about the Patriot Act unlawful, that judge is a Clinton appointee. The most recent case in point is [...]
Bookworm on Sep 06 2007 | Filed under: Judges, Law
I just read that a federal judge has temporarily canceled the Patriot Act’s wire tapping provisions. I’m very much not a Constitutional lawyer, so I can’t comment on the validity of this decision at a legal level. Immediately upon reading that story, though, I was pretty willing to bet that Judge Victor Marrero, [...]
Bookworm on Aug 24 2007 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Education, Europe, Law
Don Quixote will correct me if I’m wrong, but I think one of the core things about being a libertarian is that you don’t try to control people’s conduct, but you do step in if they break certain clearly stated rules. Indeed, you don’t need to be a libertarian to have that view. [...]
Bookworm on Aug 16 2007 | Filed under: Children, Law, Silly Stuff
My son’s Nintendo DS crashed and, as it turned out, he hadn’t saved for quite a while. He lost several special moves and weapons that he’d gathered since the last save. I suggested (sympathetically) that he might want to save more often. His response: “I’m going to sue Nintendo.” I may be a lawyer, but [...]
Don Quixote on Jul 22 2007 | Filed under: Government, Law
DQ here. I’ll be dropping in while Bookworm is on vacation. Danny L. picked up on one of my earlier comments and suggested I make a topic out of my belief that we should legalize drugs. Good idea. I’d also legalize gambling, prostitution, and other “victimless” crimes. I take this stand on principle — what [...]
Bookworm on Jul 18 2007 | Filed under: Immigration, Law
Sean Hannity isn’t one of my favorite conservative talking heads. He has some good points, but he functions off of an anger and emotionalism that stops just short of (or maybe drifts over into) demagoguery. I thought this was very clearly displayed in his attack last night on Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2007 | Filed under: Law, Muslim violence, Political correctness
You’ve no doubt heard that the Six Imams, as part of their legal strategy, have named as “John Doe” defendants in their lawsuit some of the people who alerted the authorities about the fact that the Imam’s were behaving in a peculiar and threatening way. That threat, to drag citizens into litigation, might have been a [...]
Bookworm on Mar 08 2007 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Democrats, Law, Republicans
One of the things that T.S. raised in my original Scooter post was that Fitzgerald said that it was wrong to disclose Plame’s identity. Now, as a lawyer, I can tell you that the fact that Fitzgerald said something doesn’t make it so. In fact, nothing a lawyer says is evidence, unless a [...]
Bookworm on Feb 14 2007 | Filed under: Law
Do you enjoy debating law and public policy? If so, I’ve got both an opportunity and a challenge for you:
As I have mentioned before on this blog, I am enrolled in a National Security Law class this semester. This class is outstanding; I’m so glad I elected to take it. Currently, we are looking [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2007 | Filed under: Law
One of the catch phrases you learn in law school is that “for every wrong there is a remedy.” This means that anyone with a legitimate grievance can show up in court and get some redress, even if it’s only the symbolic peppercorn. The problem is that, something that redresses the wronged person’s [...]
Bookworm on Nov 29 2006 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Law
There’s an article in today’s New York Times exposing (again) one of the problems with affirmative action — it elevates nice, ordinary people to situations where they’re bound to fail. This time the focus is on the nation’s top law firms, where African-Americans consistently fail to last:
Thanks to vigorous recruiting and pressure from corporate [...]
Bookworm on Jun 29 2006 | Filed under: Law, Military, War crimes
I know that many of you are like me in that you’re disgusted with the Republican’s profligacy, as well as with other careless, pandering form’s of government in which Republicans engage. Be assured, though, that “punishing” them at election time, both in 2006 and 2008, will be worse. Why? Because the Dems [...]
Bookworm on May 06 2006 | Filed under: Law
I got some really good comments on my earlier post about the Cleveland lawyers who went after the parents who successfully represented their son in a claim against the school district. I focused on the fact that, usually, the child's interest is indistinguishable from the parents' interest, making it appropriate in most cases for [...]
Bookworm on May 05 2006 | Filed under: Law
Most people who navigate through our legal system, and who must educate themselves about our laws, opt to use a lawyer in the hope that the lawyer, through his skill and knowledge, will give them both a friend in Court and an advantage over their adversary. In other words, in our judicial system, lawyers [...]
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