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Awooooga – U.S. V. Stevens Affirmed

by Christopher Harbin The Supreme Court affirmed the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. v. Stevens, 8-1.   Big Free Speech Victory today.  Prior coverage from Randazza here and here. We’ll update later after we’ve dissected the opinion.

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Worst. Oral argument. Ever.

By J. DeVoy Oral arguments are strange things.  With enough practice, they can be sharp and flawless tools of advocacy, but trying to use them too soon can lead to disaster.  I had a case of the latter during a moot court practice last year.  Eager to enhance my argument, I tried to go completely without notes for my second

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Peter Steele . . . Rest in Slack

By J. DeVoy Peter Steele, singer/bassist for Type O Negative, is dead from heart failure at age 48.  His musical openness about death, lust, suicide, love and loss, was inimitable. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DxgVB48JSY&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

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Trust and Impaired Driving

by Charles Platt I’d like to extend my previous post on drunk driving to examine the relationship of trust between driver and passengers. If I am a passenger in a car, and the driver knows that I don’t want him to drink, we might argue that a relationship of trust exists, and if the driver is secretly violating that trust,

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SEC sues Goldman Sachs [alternative title- :( ]

By J. DeVoy The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil suit against Goldman Sachs and one of its employees, Fabrice Tourre, for securities fraud.  The complaint revolves around Goldman’s alleged misrepresentations about the quality of loans underlying a collateralized debt obligation (CDO).  Paragraph five summarizes the consequences neatly: The deal closed on April 26, 2007. Paulson paid GS&Co

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Does anyone know this chick's number?

Laura Hall, 20, has been banned from buying or drinking alcohol anywhere in England or Wales. Police applied to magistrates for the order because of the number of drink-related offences that Hall had been involved in. She had already been banned from pubs and clubs in her home town of Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, under the PubWatch scheme. (source) The Legal Satyricon

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National Day of Prayer Unconstitutional

U.S. District Judge Barbara B. Crabb of the Western District of Wisconsin ruled that the National Day of Prayer is a violation of the Establishment Clause. (source). The case was a no-brainer. I haven’t seen the decision yet, but if it followed any precedent at all, I am sure that I can predict its content. Under Lemon v. Kurtzman, a

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The Bare Breasted Truth

By Tatiana von Tauber    Envision spending a nice sunny Saturday downtown when suddenly a crowd of women come at you – topless! Do you gasp? Quickly grab your children and cover their eyes? Do you think, WTF, laugh or grab your camera? Portland, Maine had plenty of diversified reactions to just such an event.    About two dozen women participated in a

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Should the Academy Require Public Service Experience?

by Christopher Harbin A White House administrator recently spoke to a seminar that I’m in and floated by an interesting idea.  Her idea was that universities should require candidates for the academy to have some public service experience in order to be considered.  Personally, I think it’s a great idea — especially for law profs — who would most likely

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Time to Rethink the Libel Process

by Charles Platt I don’t much care for libel laws. If someone seriously defames me, my classical recourse is to engage in a lengthy and expensive court battle which is a huge waste of resources. When a writer I know pursued such a battle, more than five years elapsed before he finally made it into court, and even with an

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Fireball lights up the midwest

By J. DeVoy I was wondering what the huge, bright streak across the sky was last night.  The event lasted for several seconds and lit up the 10 pm sky as if it were dusk.  Things returned to normal shortly thereafter, largely because none of this stuff happened. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr76hNngqts&hl=en_US&fs=1&] UPDATE: CNN has video of the event.

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