If you have 30 minutes to spare today and are interested in the interaction of criminal defense with weird domestic conspiracy-theory stuff, I recommend this article: “Too Weird for The Wire: How black Baltimore drug dealers are using white supremacist legal theories to confound the Feds.” Two friends of mine pointed it out, and they […]
It’s rare that the lawyer blogs and freelance writer blogs that I read intersect. But today, on Freelance Switch, they did. They published an interview with a woman named Melody Kramer down in San Diego, who describes herself as a “legal freelancer.” In fact, she and a colleague have started a group called the National […]
This is partly a note to myself and may not interest any of my two to three readers. Buuut, if you are interested in medical malpractice statistics in California, you should check out this article in today’s LA Times, which occasionally still manages good reporting, despite everything. A newish state law requires hospitals to report […]
I happened to see a certain late-night comedy show last night that mentioned the SCOTUS decision in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker (07-219). (I don’t habitually read SCOTUSBlog or otherwise follow the court closely for the same reason I don’t visit record stores that often — it might be a little too fun.) This being […]
First off, I’m sorry I haven’t been posting. Realistically, it’s just gonna be sporadic because I have to put paying work first. I still read lawyer blogs, especially employment and legal-writing ones, but I just don’t have the time to read appellate opinions with the closeness necessary to blog about them with confidence.
I’m posting […]
Now that I’m back at my own desk and can look through the blogs more thoroughly, some goodies I missed:
Bush signed GINA. I continue to be pleasantly surprised by the bipartisan support for this bill, which seems like it might cost employers money down the road when they make potentially discriminatory decisions based on employees’ […]
(That title mangles a phrase from author Anthony Burgess.)
The California Blog of Appeal just caught my eye with a post on a new Ninth Circuit decision on “don’t ask, don’t tell” in Witt v. Dept. of the Air Force, case no. 06-35644 (9th Cir. May 21, 2008). I shan’t try to repeat his analysis, […]
Shortly after I made that last update, I got a notice that an article of mine has been published. “Lending Lawyers: Secondments Gaining Popularity” will be printed in GC California’s June issue, but it went online today. In addition to thanking the editor there, I must thank the sources who generously gave me some of […]
A blog post from Prof. Eric Goldman at the Technology & Marketing Law blog caught my eye yesterday. The professor was blogging on everyone’s favorite Internet law, 47 USC 230, which may or may not shield Web sites and other online platforms from liability for the bad behavior of their users. He’s discussing the Fifth […]
I’d just like to take this opportunity to congratulate my 3L friend for not being a 3L anymore — as of today, he is officially a J.D. Mad props; may it open the right doors.
It’s far too late for me to add anything meaningful to the wealth of information on the blogosphere about In […]
