Solicitors in the UK, and the judges they practice before, will no longer wear their traditional wigs and colorful court costumes, at least for civil and family law cases. Efficient and practical, to be sure, but also kind of sad,… Continue Reading
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles won judicial approval yesterday for a settlement of $660 million to be spread out amongst 508 plaintiffs who claimed they had been raped by priests as children. Note that I use the term “rape” rather… Continue Reading
Not a lot of thoughts recently about religion or atheism. But things have a way of popping up again in multiple references, closely clustered together in time. Yesterday, I saw a very amusing movie about kids in an evangelical high… Continue Reading
I presently sit in the lobby of the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel, consuming the wireless internet available here before my employment law symposium, set to begin in a few hours. I had an appearance in the downtown Los Angeles courthouse… Continue Reading
“Send ‘em all home” is not a realistic part of immigration reform. They won’t go willingly. And if we were to double the available immigration law enforcement resources (time, money, labor) that are being used to deport the over 600,000… Continue Reading
From who else but Mike Gravel? (Keep watching; something happens after about ninety seconds.) Now, he says that this was a metaphor. I say, it’s absolutely bizarre.
…not to ever get a tattoo.
I don’t write about baseball a lot here, because I may be the only one interested in it. But I am interested in it so I’m going to write about it. It’s the All-Star Break and a good time to… Continue Reading
Over the weekend, The Wife and I drove down to Beverly Hills to have dinner with some friends we hadn’t seen in a while. We had a wonderful dinner – as I wrote last week, good food and good wine… Continue Reading
An emerging constituency within the GOP is people opposed to immigration. Some of them go through the motions of distinguishing between illegal and legal immigration, especially when accused of racism, but generally the distinction between legal and illegal immigration is… Continue Reading