No Heart Balm Here
Can you obtain sex — or marriage — by fraud? No, in most states. There are fairly broad “anti-heart balm” laws around, and for good reason. It really can’t be for a jury, or worse yet a lone judge, to… Continue Reading
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A Little Girl Dies And Exposes An Injustice
If I get sick, please don’t pray for me. Instead, get me to a doctor. Don’t do what the obviously very faithful Dale and Leilani Neumann of Weston, Wisconsin (a rural town near Wausau, smack dab in the middle of… Continue Reading
Two Good Arguments For The Defense
I’ve received some e-mails that offer what look like pretty viable defenses to this lawsuit. I’m not 100% sure they would win, but these are viable legal arguments against it. First, the civilian courts should not be the forum that… Continue Reading
Sepcialist Jeremy Hall v. Department of Defense
This is all over the news today. Although some have been talking about it for a while. Here’s the facts: Jeremy Hall joined the Army for the same reasons anyone does — a desire to serve his countrymen and his… Continue Reading
Just Awful
This is about the most horrible story out of New York I’ve seen in a long time. It’s very hard to opine on the verdict, not knowing all the facts of why the police began shooting at these men who… Continue Reading
Piracy
In spite of yesterday’s praise for Prof. Martin, I think his analysis of this Latin-dropping opinion from the Ninth is wrong. Quick and dirty facts: Lei Shi is a cook on a fishing ship. He is a citizen of the… Continue Reading
Now This is Law Blogging
…And the Best Summary of a Recent Appellate Case Posted on the Internets in Recent Memory award goes to USD law professor Shaun Martin, author of the California Appellate Report, for his succinct, understandable, and highly amusing summary of today’s… Continue Reading
Three Months Worth Of Review
I continue to be dumbfounded by Tennessee’s system of regulating the law profession — even as I now am no longer part of it. Today, more than three months after I sent in a renewed application to withdraw my Tennessee… Continue Reading
Value Billing
Over at her blog on The Atlantic, Megan McArdle muses about hourly billing at law firms. Her lens is that hourly billing is not female-friendly, with which I disagree. Hourly billing is not family-friendly, and men like to spend time… Continue Reading
Your Diminishing Liberties
Okay, all you law school people out there. Finals are coming up soon. Here’s the law, District of Columbia Statute 22-1321: Whoever, with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or under circumstances such that a breach of the… Continue Reading