Image by Inmigrante a media jornada via Flickr I thought it was scary how much information Facebook had on me. Yeah, right. Next to Google, Facebook is just almost benign. Almost. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google (which does email, calendars, documents, searches, maps, directions, YouTube, blogs, and so on), has his eye on you: […]
Thinking about returning that prom dress? Think again.
September 13, 2010 by
Thinking about returning that prom dress? Think again, says Ian Ayres, professor of law and economics at Yale and Freakonomics contributor. You’re committing fraud, he says. And that text book you purchased at the campus book store while waiting for the cheaper one to arrive from Amazon, all the while planning on returning the more expensive […]
Memorable Depositions
September 10, 2010 by
The ABA Journal has asked readers what are some of the memorable depositions they’ve been in over the years. I had a good laugh at a few of them. “Andythelawyer” remembered a depo where the client shared more than his attorneys thought appropriate: A couple of decades ago I was representing one of many directors […]
Tattoos: Free speech on your body
September 10, 2010 by
Image by megabn via Flickr While I suppose it would be plausible for other circuits to deal with tattoos as political speech, it’s really no surprise that it was the the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in Anderson v. City of Hermosa Beach, that actually did. And that found them to be speech. Some […]
“Don’t create a passive President”: Looking at “Signing Unconstitutional Laws” by William Baude (part 3, Conclusion)
September 9, 2010 by
Part three of my look at William Baude’s “Signing Unconstitutional Laws” (86 Ind. L. J. (forthcoming 2011))… today we are looking at the risks associated with signing unconstitutional laws. What are the risks? Even if, enlightened as he may be, the President signs the law with no intention of acting or executing it, there is […]
Looking at “Signing Unconstitutional Laws” by William Baude (part 2)
September 8, 2010 by
Continuing my look at William Baude’s “Signing Unconstitutional Laws” (86 Ind. L. J. (forthcoming 2011))… We had just finished look at the summation of why Baude did not believe the act of signing unconstitutional laws was in itself unconstitutional. In reviewing the arguments of those opposed to signing such laws, Baude states that the reasons […]
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