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• Toys ‘R’ Us Doesn’t Wanna Grow Up Or Comply With the ADA

  It seems that (my local) Toys ‘R’ Us store has been sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. According to the Complaint filed by the EEOC in the... Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: Not This Year (The Maryland Civil Attorney’s Fee Shiftin...

  

  Maryland Senate Bill 263 (which was cross-filed with House Bill 130) would have permitted courts to award attorney’s fees to individuals who filed suit to... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• We Made This On The Twitter

  

  What do you get when you ask folks to tweet you some iambic pentameter at 8:30 on a Sunday evening?You get this somewhat Greek, somewhat meteorological poem... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Dear Poet

  

  Earlier this week in my Research: Deep and Wide post, I wrote about the importance of reading for breadth as well as depth. I referenced quotes from two poets,... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: Research, Deep and Wide

  

  Lawyers do a lot of research.It might surprise you to learn that poets also do a lot of research.We tend to assume that poetry springs from the mind of the... Read more

  Posted on 04 March 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: The Plantagenet People’s Court

  

  Since the skeletal remains found last year under a parking lot in Leicester have been confirmed as those of Richard III, England will finally properly lay to... Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Suiting Up

  

  I am currently preparing to take the Virginia bar exam. Although many states allow lawyers admitted elsewhere to “waive in” without taking the bar exam or to... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• 2012 in Review

  

  The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.Here’s an excerpt:4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• What You Need to Know Before You Diss (and Why You Should Anyway)

  

  Allow me to confess: I post snarky reviews on Yelp. All the time. Well, maybe not all the time. A couple of times. I try to keep things reasonable. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• For Antonin Scalia, Some “Law And” Seminars Are More Equal Than Others

  Justice Antonin Scalia commented not too long ago that law students should take only “bread and butter” classes like constitutional or international law. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: Dangerous and Unusual Weapons

  

  Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. From Blackstone through the 19th-century cases, commentators and courts routinely... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• I’m Way Overdue For a Post

  

  Yup, I know.  I’m putting together a couple of things in my head as we speak.In the meantime, I’m thinking West Chester University for next year’s conference.... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• The Great Cake Case

  

  I have been following the Guy Fieri/New York Times feud with interest, partly because I’m just as interested as everybody else in finding out what “donkey sauce... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: The Just City

  

  In 1983 Mark Helprin published Winter’s Tale, an epic on the scale of Moby Dick and similarly steeped in symbolism. It is one of my favorite books. It clocks... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: Do the Right Thing

  

  Even if it scares you.These statutes also deprive the Lovings of liberty without due process of law in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: The Hurricane Months

  

  The hurricane months are not so far away, I thought, and saw the tree strike its roots deeper, making ready to fight the wind. Useless. If and when it comes... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Dispatch from the Hopelessly Misguided Universe: Allison Leotta Compares Women...

  I am almost speechless. Not so speechless that I can’t put this post together, but really, really close to speechless.Today at Above the Law,... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• Monday Morning Hearsay: Read This, Not That

  The morning is long past here on the East Coast. It is still sort of morning on the West Coast. So let us consider this a Monday Morning Hearsay Pacific Edition... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• On Constitutional Theory and Judicial Smack-downs: A Review of “Cosmic...

  It is not often, at least if you live outside of Wisconsin, that you get to see judges duking it out in a public forum. When it does happen, it’s usually... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2012 LEGAL, SOCIETY

• By the Sea

  

  Angus was resting his bones in the warm sun, watching the man and the boy.The man was deeply tanned, his face wrinkled, his hands work-worn but strong. Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2012 SELF EXPRESSION