A strip mall was developed a mile away from my office in 2007. The location was right by the freeway, in a prime development location. It has two standalone buildings out in the parking lot and a main row of… Continue Reading
For those of you who came looking for your weekly trivia blast, sorry. I’m on something of a blogging sabbatical for the next several weeks. This has a lot to do with an already-heavy litigation calendar I need to get… Continue Reading
I heard on the news tonight that there would be an exceptionally clear pass of the International Space Station, visible to the naked eye, this evening. I downloaded the app for my phone to tell me exactly when it was… Continue Reading
What literary work is called to mind by listing these entertainers, some obscure and some legendary, some alive and some dead, of various nationalities, in this particular order? Rebekah Brandes Roddy McDowall Max Von Sydow Courtney Love Glenn Shadix Mel Blanc… Continue Reading
I have some idea of what at least three lawyers went through this morning when the FBI seized the three largest and most profitable online poker and gambling websites and indicted eleven executives for money laundering. I had a business… Continue Reading
There are some areas of inquiry and discussion that are inherently difficult because you can’t say anything at all without inviting a whole series of emotional responses to them. Those emotional responses, in turn, could only be reasonably expected to… Continue Reading
You can’t believe everything you read on the Internet. Obama has produced his birth certificate. There were announcements that ran in two contemporaneous Hawaiian newspapers at the time. The head of the Hawaiian medical records has announced, ‘I have seen… Continue Reading
The list begins thus: Fenwick Island The Mason-Dixon Line Cape May Point …and then it goes on for quite some time. What is the last entry on this list?
Terry Jones knew, or should have known, that burning a Koran here in the United States would cause riots in places like Afghanistan. He did burn a Koran, and riots did happen, and people died. Legally, Terry Jones broke no… Continue Reading
Roger Williams’ concept of “separation of church and state” first became a part of Establishment Clause jurisprudence in Reynolds v. U.S., 98 U.S. 145 (1878), and became incorporated to and applicable to the several states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment in Everson… Continue Reading