Posts tagged as Law
Korea's Narc Economy is Perfect for See-Something, Say-Something USA
"Snitching for pay has become especially popular since the world’s economic troubles slowed South Korea’s powerful economy. Paparazzi say most of their ranks are people who have lost their jobs in the downturn and are drawn by media reports of fellow Koreans making tens of thousands of dollars a year reporting crimes." READ MORE
Richard Epstein's Revisionist History Leads To Revising of History
Today's market idolators don't know much, but they know what they hate. Take libertarian University of Chicago law professor Richard Epstein, who in his reliably hallucinatory Forbes.com column uses a wonky John Judis defense of the Obama White House's approach to regulatory policy to divine all sorts of pernicious motives in the Progressive vision of law and policy making. READ MORE
Inconsistent Pleadings: Smith v. Spisak and Mumia's Three Decades of Appeals
If you've ever spent any time on a college campus, chances are you've encountered a group of maybe-students with makeshift signs and ink-smeared pamphlets urging that you "Free Mumia." And if you bothered to grab a pamphlet or engage one of these activists, you would have discovered that "Mumia" is Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was convicted of the fairly brutal 1981 shooting death of 25-year-old Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Abu-Jamal has always claimed that he is innocent, and in the nearly thirty years since his conviction, his banner has been taken up by an array of frequent bedfellows: assorted civil rights groups, low-wattage celebrities, slices of the international community and college kids. READ MORE
Inconsistent Pleadings: When and How to Say "F***ing" At Work
For 2000 or so years, conventional medical wisdom/quack science held that various bodily substances, known collectively as the four humours, governed a person's physical and emotional disposition. I have my own four humours theory, which is basically that the only things people really find funny are cursing, typos, pratfalls and old people. (This means, for a lawyer, that your day job is about as amusing as a Chris Buckley piece.) READ MORE
Annals Of Law: Farting Apps In Conflict
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Couple of days late on this one, but longtime readers will be aware of my fascination with the iFart app. I guess I never really thought of all the legal and historical implications behind it. This is a truly amazing story.
Family Sues Genie Over Poor Cell Etiquette
Annals of jurisprudence: "A Shariah court in the town of Mahd Al-Dahab is taking up an important question: Can genies be summoned . . . to appear before a judge? According to Wednesday's Al-Watan newspaper, a family has filed a lawsuit against an unnamed genie for stealing mobile phones, sending threatening voice messages through mobile phones imploring the family to move away and pelting family members with stones when they go out at night." Reached for comment, the genie claimed to be unaware of the mobile phone shenanigans, saying, "If that had happened, I would know about it."
Madoff Lawyer Requests Light Sentence
Uh, yeah, good luck with that: "Attempting to mitigate a maximum sentence of 150 years for a client whose name has become synonymous with greed, defense attorney Ira Lee Sorkin of Dickstein Shapiro asked a federal judge this morning to set aside the 'hysteria' generated by of the largest Ponzi scheme in history and give Mr. Madoff only 12 years in prison. In a letter to Southern District Judge Denny Chin, Mr. Sorkin argued as a fallback that a 15-to-20 year term would accomplish the goals of the sentencing laws 'without disproportionately punishing' Mr. Madoff."
Obama's Supreme Pick: Sonia Sotomayor
Obama's Supreme Court nominee: it's Sonia Sotomayor. And here is what you can look forward to: "A cottage industry-literally an industry, given the sums of money raised and spent-now exists in which the far left and right either brutalize or lionize the President's nominees. Because the absence of controversy means bankruptcy, it has to be invented by both sides, whatever the cost to the nominee personally and to the integrity of the judiciary nationally."
