At a funeral in New Mexico, the officiant says the deceased is bound for Hell.
The family of Ben Martinez, 80, allege that Reverend Scott Mansfield said he was “living in sin,” “lukewarm in his faith” and that “the Lord vomited people like Ben out of his mouth to hell”.
Gotta love the imagery in that last [...]
Frustrated that Martha does the perp walk while the big fish from Enron and WorldCom play golf? One of my coworkers is selling a bumper sticker for you, then.
[ via xmlhack ] If you’ve read through court opinions or legal journals, as I did as a graduate student in the late 1980s and early 1990s, you’ll find plenty of hypertexual references. Bob DuCharme does some research to find when the practice started.
Google routes traffic to most, if not all sites on the web, so if their “SafeSearch” filter generates false positives, then it becomes an unwitting bottleneck. Benjamin Edelman’s working on a list of false positives and published his results at Harvard’s Berkman Center.
Good riddance.
He should be thankful he wasn’t treated like the terrorist he is.
[ via the Muted Horn ] From a discussion about off-color host names such as mofo.com, we were commended to a small law firm in Denver known as Powers Phillips. Read the home page; the dialog on hemlines, Ally McBeal, and clunky shoes; and notes on how to work with token males without going completely [...]
Seth Finkelstein wrote a HowTo on petitioning the Librarian of Congress to grant exemptions to provisions of the Digital Milleniumn Copyright Act. The act requires the Librarian to review comments and possiblity grant exemptions every three years. 2003 is the next review period.
The document walks you through the process of writing a petition, using the [...]
David E. Keily couldn’t come up with funnier courtroom dialog.
Judge: Come on, Mr Lovelace! I think you are still being given the run-around here. You can do better than that. At least, for the sake of the English bar, I hope you can.
I’d bring “Ally McBeal” back from cancellation long enough for the writers to [...]
Laura Quilter recommended Jessica Litman to us when I was working with ConJose on program items on Patents and Copyright. She teaches at Wayne State, and runs a newslog on cyberlaw issues.
[ via XML Hack ] European-based NGOs and IGOs making up HURIDOCS are investigating the use of XML to improve the flow of human rights information.
HURIDOCS already have controlled vocabularies and formats for documenting abuses of human rights, but are going to the developer and human rights communities to see if there’s interest in XMLizing [...]
[ via Caveat Lector ] Okay, you’ve heard from the peanut gallery (that would be me), and a ConLaw scholar on the 9th Circuit bete noir, so let’s (as the Shrub says) hit the trifecta and hear from a theologian.
Woah, I bet you might not have been expecting that conclusion…
More analysis from Professor Volokh on the Pledge case. Good reading because he’s getting past the screaming and down to nuts and bolts issues. He’s also talking about the Supremes’ ruling on the the School Voucher case today.
Eugene Volokh teaches ConLaw at UCLA, and clerked for Justice O’Connor, so, unlike myself and the other armchair ConLaw wanabes, knows his stuff. So go read his comments on the Pledge case.
This is a rewrite of this entry, after getting a chance to hear some news.
A reasonable person would have to presume that Bush, while he wouldn’t admit to it, must love this whole Pledge and G-D business. It’s red meat for evangelicals and conservatives. They get to beat up on their favorite targets, the Courts [...]
Another law blogger I’m reading regularly is Larry Stanton, Jr.’s. Larry’s interested in the same areas I was when I was a graduate student in Economics (oh, so many years ago).
