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Devin Nunes and the Very Delicate Feelings

Michael Siegel December 6, 2019

Nunes has claimed a news network, a social network, a fictional cow, and a few journalists have...

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A Sports Law Hypothetical

Richard Hershberger June 9, 2016

A question for our legal folk: When is plunking the batter a tort?

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Let My People Go

Burt Likko July 17, 2014

One company begins an experiment in ways to take enlightened management techniques down a notch, conveniently in...

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Linky Friday No. 61

Burt Likko March 21, 2014

It's Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded...

Lessons From Bar Fight Litigation

Burt Likko January 21, 2014

By special request: Burt Likko reflects on a dozen or so not-particularly-glamorous cases from early in his...

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ENDA’s Game

Burt Likko November 14, 2013

In which the necessity of a law is politically dismissed because of a massive public misunderstanding by...

Religious Liberty Means Religious Privilege

Kyle Cupp July 26, 2013

So far two bakeries have faced legal challenges to their refusal to make wedding cakes for same-sex...

Coca-Cola, Big Tobacco, and Why the Personal Responsibility of the Consumer Should Not Be Allowed to Excuse Corporate Malfeasance IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.glacier-of-rosenlaui-74

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Coca-Cola, Big Tobacco, and Why the Personal Responsibility of the Consumer Should Not Be Allowed to Excuse Corporate Malfeasance

Tod Kelly January 18, 2013

A new ad by Coca-Cola has caused a bit of fuss over the intertubes, including in the...

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Notes from a litigious society

Erik Kain October 29, 2010

I would like to congratulate Justice Paul Wooten of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his...

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If I Were Shirley Sherrod’s Attorney…

Mark of New Jersey July 29, 2010

(UPDATED) I’d strongly advise against this course of action. It is certainly true that what Breitbart did...

Jaybird in reply to LeeEsq on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/20251. You have the option of laughing at them. 2. Asking people to do the background reading is ableist…
Slade the Leveller on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)I've always been of the (probably unpopular) opinion that no one gets a party for graduating from hi…
LeeEsq in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025There have been a few things about the protest movement that confuses me and nobody seems to have an…
Jaybird in reply to Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Just like what Columbia did to those kids in the library.
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Hero exemplar, Ras Baraka arrested protesting ICE: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/nyregion/newar…
Saul Degraw on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lor4n3ylfk2h The Freedom Admin is "looking…
LeeEsq in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Everybody used to be a lot more forgiving about youthful indiscretions. These days not so much. It i…
fillyjonk on Weekend Plans Post: Graduation Season (One of the Last Ones)yeah, graduation here. Several of my students are graduating so I'm going to go. I thought I'd also…
LeeEsq in reply to InMD on Open Mic for the Week of 5/5/2025Part of it is what Jaybird says and part of it is a privilege so exceedingly high that they can't ev…
Jaybird on From New York Magazine’s Intelligencer: Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeAndrew has an episode devoted to this article. Check it out.