On occasion, my home state Utah manages to find its way into the news, but often only for the goofy or laughable reasons. (There is the exception of the 2002 Winter Olympics, which went off without too much of a hitch.) The legislative session provides a great place for some of the laughable. As one […]
Archives for March 2010
School Uniforms: Constitutional Infringement of Free Speech?
March 26, 2010 by
Well, are they? A friend (not a lawyer) corrected me when I mentioned that kids don’t have full First Amendment rights of free speech saying that “but their parents do and forcing kids to wear school uniforms without their parents’ consent may be unconstitutional.” So….now I’ve got to look it up. What do you think?
HCR and the Constitution: procedural problems?
March 22, 2010 by
I get a lot of questions from my friends about the HCR bill that just passed. What happened? might be a good what to sum up most of the questions. They are confused about how it passed (not to mention about why the Congress would pass something that seems so unpopular…but that’s another issue altogether), […]
Justice comes for the spammer in CA
March 19, 2010 by
It turns out that there is justice. This just in from California via Slashdot: spammers who send out false and deceptive spam will pay liquidated damages to the extent of $1,000 per email.
The Freedom of Information Act and the Presidency
March 19, 2010 by
During my undergrad days, I did a stint as a lowly intern in a mammoth sized bureaucracy in Washington, D.C. The building that housed the “Department” was built in the 1950s, and it smelled that way, too. One of my main tasks, other than attending endless meetings on subject matter about which I knew or […]
In-house making gains over outside counsel
March 19, 2010 by
In news that’s good for me, ensconced in my Dilbert-land cubicle in the legal department of corporate America, general counsels are reporting that the costs of litigation balanced against tough economic times is pushing them to expand their in-house legal departments at the expense of outside counsel. From the ABA Journal: Given the higher regulatory […]
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