Archived Pages

▼
Monday, November 16, 2020

Grant group investigates curious reappearance of US President in Guinea-Bissau island 'ghost town'

›
From GMA newsletter, vol. XVI, no. 1, fall 2020, at 4, my photo at right. Earlier this year, I wrote about the short, strange life of statu...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

'Oh, the lawyers'

›
From A Late Show with Stephen Colbert , Nov. 12, 2020: Stephen thanked everyone who made 1,000 shows possible.
Friday, November 13, 2020

Poland scholars explain turmoil in streets over court decision nearly outlawing abortion; what next?

›
Protesters take to the streets in Kraków on October 25. (Silar CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Social stability in Poland has been increasingly shaky since ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2020

FOIA scores among John Oliver's three favorite things

›
Of all the funny takes on an outraged voter's crashing of a Nevada election press conference, John Oliver's takes top honors for fe...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Laws suspending driver licenses for fines need reform

›
Spencer K. Schneider , a 3L at UMass Law and teaching assistant in my Torts I-II classes, has authored an article for the National Lawyers ...
Monday, November 9, 2020

All politics is local

›
This Ayrshire Daily News , Scotland, headline refers to the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses .  The headline caught the attention of BBC's ...
Sunday, November 8, 2020

Singers revel in federal judges' lifetime appointments

›
I just discovered The Bar & Grill Singers , an Austin, Texas-based musical revue of attorneys.  My favorite song is " Appointed For...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Depp defamation suits in US, UK see London setback

›
Heard and Depp in 2015 ( GabboT CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Johnny Depp is fighting accusations of spousal abuse in defamation suits in England and t...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Supreme Court vacates First Amendment decision, tells lower court to certify negligence question to Louisiana

›
Mckesson ( HimmelrichPR CC BY-SA 2.0 ) A negligence lawsuit blaming Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson for injury to a police off...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

Court: Pseudonymous WeChat user cannot be libeled

›
As matter of law, statement is not 'of and concerning' plaintiff Statements about a person on a social media platform are not defama...