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Take THAT Ass-Hat!
Two weeks ago in Subpoena Sleaze, I wrote about how a lawyer went beyond all bounds of reality in seeking information from a non-party blogger. Turkewitz reports that not only did the subpoena get quashed, but the judge actually did his job! ENDORSED ORDER granting MOTION to Quash Subpoena. Text of Order: “Granted. Attorney Clifford Shoemaker is ordered to show
"Hunt Club" swingers' parties and freedom of association both under attack in Flori-duh
Meet The Hunt Club of Brevard Today’s Central Florida news is all abuzz with stories of a salacious “sex club” operating in Melbourne, Florida. The Hunt Club of Brevard describes itself as follows: The Hunt Club is a private, members only, on premise group dedicated to helping its members explore the alternative lifestyle in a safe, secure environment where they
Announcing a new Blawg
About a month ago, I asked Professor Leonard Birdsong to write a guest blog post for me. See Birdsong on Barack Obama and His Pastor. Apparently that post gave Birdsong the blawging bug, and he has launched his own. Professor Birdsong is going to be vlogging soon as well. Please join me in welcoming Birdsong to the blawgosphere.
Susan Cartier Liebel strikes again!
Susan’s blog, Build a Solo Practice is a fantastic source of information that they don’t teach you in law school. She seems to have taken the next step: Launching Solo Practice University. I recall reading a post on about this thought a few months ago. She taught a Law Practice course at Quinnipiac University school of law. Unfortunately, too many
You got a warrant for that data, ossifer?
The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that police and civil litigants alike will need a subpoena before they can access personal information about users from their ISPs. In writing for the unanimous seven-judge court (pdf), Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said: “We now hold that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy protected by Article I … of the New Jersey
The Urinal Code
Louisiana legislators have approved a resolution calling for an amendment to the state plumbing code to require “privacy dividers” to be installed at urinals men’s public bathrooms. The resolution was sponsored by Democratic state Rep. Mickey Guillory of Eunice. The reason, according to the resolution, is that “sexual offenders, sexually violent predators, and child predators can easily violate the privacy
One 2L's take on how to fix the legal profession
The ABA Journal reported in Why Associates Leave is Clear, But What Would Lure Them to Stay? that up to 80 percent of BIGLAW associates leave within the first five years of employment. A reader identified only as “Chicago 2L” responded: I’ll tell you why these firms are having the problems they are having: They hire only the privileged top
Happy Birthday to You!
Happy second birthday to Jon Katz’ Underdog Blog! And, if it wasn’t a happy enough occasion, on his blog post commemorating the event, Jon pays me mad props! While I understand the benefit of speaking in a diplomatic manner to open listeners’ ears, I do that enough in court, and tend to be more direct and unvarnished in our blog,
Quote of the Day
“If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they’ve got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked
Flori-duh! Come for the sunshine, stay for the bestiality!
Okay… its funny, but it’s not funny. Oh, but it’s just so freakin FUNNY! Michael Bauer, a Florida Assistant State Attorney, is on a campaign to outlaw bestiality in the Sunshine State. A noble crusade, I guess. I wasn’t aware that the practice had reached such epidemic proportions. It isn’t the what so much as the how that is so
Protecting our Sexuality, One Bad Law at a Time
That’s the title of this great post by Dr. Marty Klein.
Simple Justice on the Death Penalty
I’m not really a “grind the death penalty axe” type… I am vehemently anti-death penalty, but I just have enough axes to grind. Scott Greenfield has a good post on the Baze v. Rees decision here. John Paul Stevens wrote, in his concurring opinion to Baze v. Rees: I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that
Swishhh.. swishh… swishhh…
Amazing… yesterday, I went to the doctor with Mrs. Legal Satyricon and the doc put this little microphone on her belly… And for the first time, I heard my little one’s heartbeat…. Wow… what a rush that was. Stay tuned for gender confirmation and ultrasound photos in a month.
Flori-duh legislator gets a bit testy
If you spend much time south of the Mason-Dixon line, you’ll see lots of things that make you wonder why we fought a war to keep this part of the country (source). Two of those things are inbred judges who insist on putting Ten Commandments displays in front of courthouses, and morons who think that it is cool to hang
Facebook Trademark Dispute
Aaron Greenspan, a former classmate of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg filed a petition to cancel Facebook’s trademark registration. Greenspan, 25, argues Zuckerberg, 23, had no right to trademark the Facebook name in 2005 because the term had been used generically for decades at Harvard University, where they first met. What is more, Greenspan maintains he used the term “Face Book”
Law & Order becomes defendant in libel-in-fiction case
“Patel”? Fuck you. Fucking Shiva handed this guy a million dollars, said “Sign the deal!” he wouldn’t sign. And the god Vishnu too. Fuck you, John! You know your business, I know mine. Your business is being an asshole. -Ricky Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross Back in 1994, New York attorney Ravi Batra fell out of his chair. According to
Dude… cough… cough… I got a GREAT idea… cough … cough…
A state trooper found a 6-foot alligator in the back seat of a car during a traffic stop. (video) Guy with dreadlocks, illegal u-turn, alligator in back seat… hmmm…..
The Pope, Bill Maher, and Adverse Secondary Effects
This weekend, Bill Maher made some pretty inflammatory statements about the Supreme Pontiff’s upcoming visit. Bill Maher compared the Texas scandal and its latest alleged abuse with the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church in the United States in 2002. “I’d like to tip off law enforcement to an even larger child-abusing religious cult,” Maher told his audience.
Legal Satyricon in the News
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Rauschenberg fracas in Dumpster Diving Leads to VARA Suit. The Fort Myers News-Press just did an article about the story. See Lawyers, artists the world over are captivated by case
Cuss-o-Meter
Obviously, this piece of shit doesn’t work. Update: I fixed the motherfucker. Created by OnePlusYou
