tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60933642011-04-21T21:13:38.269-06:003L or Bust"Chocolate Cake for Breakfast? That's Nutrition!"mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1093627567334096432004-08-27T11:26:00.000-06:002004-08-27T11:26:07.333-06:00Premature Labor No Excuse for Missed Court Deadline
from the article:
"As the deadline approached, Cote's small law practice was beset with unforeseen distractions.
First, he was notified that an adoption application he and his wife submitted had been accepted and that he needed to go to China promptly to adopt the child. He left in September and stayed until late November.
Also that fall, mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1093627388121862732004-08-27T11:23:00.000-06:002004-08-27T11:23:08.120-06:00hey, no shortcuts in doing your assignment, not even for Judges
mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1092845571196199572004-08-18T10:12:00.000-06:002004-08-18T10:12:51.196-06:00to paraphrase Tom Hanks:
There's no crying on the jury!mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1092329644622366042004-08-12T10:54:00.000-06:002004-08-12T10:54:04.623-06:00you would think that in this age where digitalization and electronic-everything supposedly streamlines our lives and improves the way we do things, that something called "e-discovery" would be a boone to lawfirms in terms of saving economic resources ... but apparently not ...
From The Surging Evolution of E-Discovery
"Electronic discovery -- or e-discovery -- has become much more complicated mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1091221575874991062004-07-30T15:06:00.000-06:002004-07-30T15:06:15.873-06:00as a follow-up to the article about blogging lawsuits, see GROKLAW, which is a blog covering the SCO v. IBM lawsuit over open source rights to UNIX in excruciating detailmbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1091115139911154872004-07-29T09:32:00.000-06:002004-07-29T09:32:19.910-06:00came across this article today:
Blogs Dot the Litigation Landscape
seems like blogs are branching out and making themselves useful ...
one of the case blogs referred to is run by a lawyer named Reback for PeopleSoft, the target of a hostile takeover by Oracle; "At his client's request, Reback is 'blogging' the proceeding, sitting in the trial all day, taking notes, and filing an account on mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1087850743614361112004-06-21T14:45:00.000-06:002004-06-21T14:45:43.613-06:00Man, don't mess with the Forest Service
crazy.mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1087314113228737842004-06-15T09:33:00.000-06:002004-06-15T09:41:53.230-06:00Summertime ... and the living is easy ... now that school is out
The semester finished off with a bang - got all my final exams out of the way, finished writing my opinion (Locke v. Davey - I was in the minority in class but in reality the majority went with me) for the Supreme Court seminar, and then spent the next week writing a paper for my ERISA class (almost literally starting from scratch)mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1077852446761346262004-02-26T20:27:00.000-07:002004-02-26T20:30:17.873-07:00I'm taking a great class this semester - a Supreme Court Seminar ...
A major portion of the class consists of our making oral arguments (shades of 1L Moot Court competition) before the class (acting as the Judges on the Supreme Court) in current cases that are on the Court's docket.
My buddy and I went against each other the other day - was fun. The case that we argued was U.S. v. mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1077579529556063922004-02-23T16:38:00.000-07:002004-02-23T16:41:36.186-07:00oh, and in the FYI department, I made the board of law review ...
if you're wondering what that means, don't worry about it (all it really means is that I'll be incredibly busy for the next year)
if you know what that means, I accept your condolencesmbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1077579391174365592004-02-23T16:36:00.000-07:002004-02-23T16:40:32.763-07:00not sure how I feel about this, but
I AM RULE 11!
You were designed to make sure that attorneys infederal cases make reasonable inquiries intofact or law before submitting pleadings,motions, or other papers. You were a realhardass in 1983, when you snuffed out all legalcreativity from federal proceedings andembarassed well-meaning but overzealousattorneys. You loosened up a bit in 1993, mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1076202800582330412004-02-07T18:13:00.000-07:002004-02-07T18:15:45.623-07:00Mazzone begins molding new staff
"This kind of situation never would have happened eight or 10 years ago [when Ted Turner owned the Braves]," Jones said. "But John [Schuerholz, general manager] is operating under a different set of circumstances. He did the best he could."
Jones spoke with Schuerholz several times during the offseason, discussing players the Braves were targeting and the mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1075837899479032962004-02-03T12:51:00.000-07:002004-02-03T12:54:23.250-07:00okay, states that I have visited ...
mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1075494804851352542004-01-30T13:33:00.000-07:002004-01-30T13:35:38.326-07:00I took an Intellectual Property class last semester, so this article caught my attention ...
apparently the "State of Wyoming" has been using the cowboy-riding-the-bucking-bronco image "forever" ... BUT ... they never bothered to register as a trademark with the feds; so when The Texas Stampede (annual rodeo in Dallas benefitting children's medical charities) filed for registration of the exact mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1075436303490549582004-01-29T21:18:00.000-07:002004-01-29T21:20:36.233-07:00math is not my strong suit, but this is pretty funny ...mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1075328105854861782004-01-28T15:15:00.000-07:002004-01-28T15:17:16.983-07:00Aaron Gleeman has a interesting post comparing Eckersley and Smoltz in regards to Smoltz's possible place in the Hall of Fame ... all in all a good post, although I take issue with a few of his comparison techniques, but let's leave that for another timembthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1074744492910834482004-01-21T21:08:00.000-07:002004-01-21T21:10:14.780-07:00normally I don't follow politics all too closely, but this is wild - and people want this guy as our next President? woah ... listen to the meltdown herembthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1074625773234471992004-01-20T12:09:00.000-07:002004-01-20T12:17:34.216-07:00this is awesome: CNN.com - Teen fights to keep MikeRoweSoft.com - Jan. 20, 2004
although, is anyone else disturbed by the block quote on the side? "I really think it's a lawyer thing with them trying to get more money." ... ? right, lawyers are the only profession out to get more money. Why don't we ever hear the phrase "it must be an Doctor thing, charging way too much" ?mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1072031323271422402003-12-21T11:28:00.000-07:002003-12-21T11:31:18.020-07:00I realize it's been awhile since my last post.
needless to say, things have been a little busy and stressful lately. This semester was pretty busy, and finals were pretty time-consuming and stressful. I only had three finals total, but I had two right in a row thet last week of finals, which was not fun. People ask me how they went and the standard answer is this: I probably did a little mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1071211257043406282003-12-11T23:40:00.000-07:002003-12-11T23:41:09.410-07:00now this (Kory Stringer's survivors ordered to pay Vikings) is just sad ... sounds like the grieving family is also the grieving greedy family; memo to the Stringer's, when the judge throws out most of your claims and orders you to pay attorney's fees, and the other side volunteers to waive the imposition of the attorney's fees, you should probably take it ...
mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1070429851088485322003-12-02T22:37:00.000-07:002003-12-02T22:37:41.210-07:00strange
is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd that in Tax parlance a Gain is a bad thing and Loss is a good thing
so screwy ...mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1070385253235586922003-12-02T10:14:00.000-07:002003-12-02T10:15:25.950-07:00hammer time
one week to go, seven days ... till my Fed Tax final. (dread)
you know how the morning of a final you get this resigned feeling like there's no point in studying anymore because it wouldn't do much good at this point anyway? you know that feeling? is it a bad thing that I'm starting to get that feeling already? does your answer change if I tell you that I've only read through the mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069789441182578062003-11-25T12:44:00.000-07:002003-11-25T12:44:30.483-07:00revealing my (past) ignorance
before business school and law school, I would have read the following sentences and really not understood what they were talking about: "The critical issue is, does the IRS consider these [home improvement] projects improvements or repairs? If they are improvements, I can include them in the cost basis of the house, and thus reduce my capital gain if I ever move to mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069789235522583132003-11-25T12:40:00.000-07:002003-11-25T12:40:43.626-07:00Can I get a ruling on this?
so I was driving home last night listening to sports radio, and some east coast caller was talking about Joey Harrington and how good he was in college at Oregon, only he was pronouncing it "Or-eh-GONE" . . . okay, that bugs me. The only people I've ever heard refer to it that way are people that have obviously never been there. People, it's "ORE-eh-gun". please saymbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069712538440346842003-11-24T15:22:00.000-07:002003-11-24T15:22:26.546-07:00oh man
you've got to love squib note cases like the following:
In Estate of Neiderhiser, 2 Pa. D. & C.3d 202, 59 Westmoreland County L.J. 60 (1977), the groom dropped dead during the marriage ceremony, after he and the bride had each said "I will" (equal in other marriage ceremonies to "I do"). The court held that marriage is a contract which becomes binding upon the exchange of vows, and the mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069706102951821702003-11-24T13:35:00.000-07:002003-11-24T13:35:24.896-07:00Rush . . . (not the band)
So I'm sitting at the firm Friday morning, and one of the partners shows up about an hour before I was going to leave ands says the following: "I have a final pretrial conference on Monday and we just got these motions in limine and we need a quick response to them, can you respond to the first one by Monday morning?"
(grrrrrr)
Me: "of course! I'll get right on it, I'd mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069454663122073082003-11-21T15:44:00.000-07:002003-11-21T15:44:30.130-07:00Wolverine does Rogers and Hammersteinmbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069445014673733992003-11-21T13:03:00.000-07:002003-11-21T13:03:42.206-07:00blah
sitting in tax, snowing outside, Friday afternoon ... how much do I really want to be here?mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069440312394586102003-11-21T11:45:00.000-07:002003-11-21T11:45:19.330-07:00funny quote about blogging from some scotish writer: Lord help us, there are even blawgs, lawyers bolgs, or - to use a more appropriate term - achingly dull wastes of cyberspace
hee heembthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069430543107310802003-11-21T09:02:00.000-07:002003-11-21T09:07:56.293-07:00Sometimes Life Sucks
If you can spare a minute, browse your way over to Paco's site and lend some support. Dude's getting a massively bum rap.mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069430474506074112003-11-21T09:01:00.000-07:002003-11-21T09:12:16.553-07:00possible career path rearing its ugly head?
about half of the projects that I worked on for the judge involved ERISA of all things. Now, prior to working for the Judge I knew absolutely nothing about ERISA ... well, that's not true, I had heard the word "ERISA" a couple of times thrown around by law professors or by students ahead of me, but I never had a context for understanding what exactly mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069348045790341282003-11-20T10:07:00.000-07:002003-11-20T13:42:20.860-07:00Mixed Feelings
Yesterday was my last day externing for the Federal District Court judge.
(I don't know why my school calls it an externship, I suppose it is to distinguish it from a paid internship or an unpaid internship w/o school credit ... maybe it's some inane desire to be "different", I don't know, I've long since given up trying to fathom the thought processes of our CSO)
I'm going to mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069179775469956072003-11-18T11:22:00.000-07:002003-11-20T10:13:00.053-07:00The Day of the Massachusetts Decision
or: this case will be talked about for a long time
8:21
working on:
Antitrust cases of the professor
it's crunch time because he wants all of the cases briefed by Thanksgiving, so I'm spending a lot of time this next week working on them . . . I am getting paid for it, so (to quote Bill Murray in Caddyshack) "at least I've got that going for me"
The chaptermbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6093364.post-1069115112313256152003-11-17T17:25:00.000-07:002003-11-17T17:27:09.286-07:00At the Carrel, Buckling Down
2:05pm
Working on at the moment:
catching up on Tax reading that I should have done over the weekend
Subject - Loss of Human Capital
Allocating Deductions Between Income Production and Personal Consumption
- Moss v. Commissioner . . . apparently the rule from this case is that if you choose to eat with your co-workers at a restaurant that you enjoy eating at, then (mbthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06750414249073790673noreply@blogger.com