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Elie, no one would dispute that "community organizer" is a nice distinction to have on your law school application....it's not neccesarily that impressive for a candidate for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!

FORE!

Sued for being kicked off a sports team? Is the purpose of this lawsuit to convince people he's not a douche who breaks a golf buddy's face with fruit? Or is this hurting his sponsorship chances?

Damn ... somebody should slap some lipstick on that kid and tell him not to go full retard anymore.

Elie,

You are supposed to let the commenters start the flamewars - you don't have to do it yourself. Your "community organizer" non-sequitur is undisciplined (or, alternatively, manipulative).

More substantively, Andy G. has got to have some serious paternal abandonment issues in play there.

Elie - where is the law hook here? This is Duke COLLEGE golf, right? So what the hell does this have to do with law or lawyers?

Or are we finally ending the charade and admitting that you see this site as your personal journal?

There should be due process for removal from a collegiate sports team. This isn't your grandmother's intramural knitting club. This is a serious team that produces many world-class golfers and creates a form of promissory when they sign up to play.

There are rights and obligations created by his play. You people need to stop treating it like he "just got kicked off a sports team."

"Sounds about right"? Based on what information exactly?

Get off yoru partisan political high horse, or this site is doomed.

He threw a 9/11 apple at him. Freedom was his!!!

He threw a 9/11 apple at him. Freedom was his!!!

No. 9.... you are an idiot.

"This is a serious team that produces many world-class golfers and creates a form of promissory when they sign up to play."

that is one of the most self entitled soundign statements i have ever heard.

I seriously doubt you would say that if a black Dook basketball player got kicked off the team for the same infraction.

What a jackass.

Nice self-troll, Elie.

@ 9, or should I say Andy Guiliani, what's a "form of promissory" anyway?

9, "rights and obligations created by his play" what the does that mean?

This is a school sponsored golf team which means they're going to have their own rules coupled with league rules on when a team member can and cannot play. How do you know Duke didn't follow whatever "due procees" applies to removing players from their team?

8, I don't think this is a good post, but you are a buffoon. This post is about a *lawsuit.* Law blogs publish things about lawsuits all the time - it is not a big deal.

his picture screams huuuuge d-bag

Elie is AWFUL.

Removing him from the golf team violates the promissory of Blackstone's 2nd Treatise on college golf! The promissory! Won't someone think of the promissory!?

Community organizers ridiculed guys from my highschool all the time. It was no big deal.

Here's my OPINION:

As I understand the golf world, top-flight amateur golfers are sought after by many clubs for their services. By signing with the team, *under certain conditions*, promissory estoppal is created because the golfers' bargaining powers no longer applies.

Many of you wouldn't treat this case so casually if it were a professional sports team. I'm not a sports lawyer, but I assume that college and professional teams are under certain obligations to their players. The Cardinals couldn't release anyone from their team without due process and the honoring of their contracts. You can't pick up free agents at certain times. You can't trade in the play-offs. There are rules.

Whether the suit has merit isn't something I'm willing to opine or comment on. I simply think that you, smug commentators, are too dismissive. In the past ten years, our noble country has seen a rash of suits that challenge and question university actions, some of which may not be legal. (I assume people read Volokh, a blog that covered the latest U of Delaware action.)

I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're not frivolously suing. Some of you don't seem to agree. Well, I don't know what to tell you, but I think that's misguided on your part.

3 and, to an extent, 7, nailed it.

Elie is the one we should make fun of.

#20 - i call bs. no way would community organizers get away with that at your high school.

those pictures look like colin montgomerie, only uglier

21, what law school do you go to? I want to make sure we don't hire anyone from there this year.

#21 - the Cardinals suck. Get over it. Loser.

Elie, you communist porch monkey, stop shilling for obama.

27, this is 3....I implore you to act like a human being. Elie may suck because he's a communist and likes Obama, but you're a total asshole for calling him a racist name.

Seriously. Check the ideology at the door, Elie. Is is that difficult to be funny without invoking some sort of political humor?

25: Why?

I'm not defending anyone here. I have faith in our justice system to sort out the wheat from the chaff without the interference and pressure of anonymous online commentators. I went to school because I believe that the the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice, and this action should be no exception to that principle.

28, It is not racist! Didn't you watch "Clerks II"?

- Not 3

Why is this post on ATL? It's dumb.

I can't believe it took 33 posts until someone checked the time tag on this post. Elie is flaming all of you and you don't even know it.

21/30 - "I believe that the cock of the universe is long, but I bend over for it in the name of justice."

33, you are real smart and all, but check 7.

I think it is slightly odd:

that Quagliano who was Giuliani's best friend from high school now doesn't want him on the team.

that Brian Kim (apple incident) after speaking with Sports Illustrated is now off the team.

Giuliani, may deserve this treatment but the whole thing is suspect.

too long. didn't read.

I second and third the calls for an end to Elie's partisanship. Lat and Kash and the WSJ Law Blog are excellent at avoiding that, considering the subject matter of the blogs. Follow suit.

I heard they play golf in Bratislava sometimes.

BRING BACK LAT FULL TIME!

This is what you get when you give the child of Jewel y Yanni a scholarship to a descent school like Duke.

Giuliani will be captain of the GULC golf team next year.

Gee, I wonder where young Giuliani learned to be abusive to others?

Giuliani looks like what would be spawned if you lopped off one of Judge Halverson's chins and let it soak in miracle grow for a few weeks.

Bring back LAT!

"I second and third the calls for an end to Elie's partisanship. Lat and Kash and the WSJ Law Blog are excellent at avoiding that"
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BWAHAHA! This is rich even for the Fed Soc contingent!

From the looks of the first photo, his putting stroke alone was justification for kicking him off the team. The guy looks like Scott Hoch on a bad day...

He has GULC material written all over him.

I was giving Elie the benefit of the doubt, until this post.

The topic was inane, the caveat about the reliability of site comments unnecessary except perhaps for the newest of n00bs, and anyone with even a slightest sense of humor would have figured out the Obama joke without the last, "ridicule" sentence.

So, to sum up, the post is boring and ham-fisted.

Elie, your assignment, should you choose to accept (and you should, to give this blog a smidgen of a chance of succeeding post-Lat) is to read every post Lat has ever made, back to the beginning of A3G. You don't have to ape his shtick--that would be tacky and obvious--but you do need to learn how to blog so that people will actually want to read.

let's all vote elie off the blog

Halverson's Chin sucks at golf!

48, which school did/do you go to?

elie = gone

Guys used to throw apples at each other all the time when I was in school. It was of minor consequence.

46, as evidenced by tax blog's report on law professor's donations at elite schools, the "fedsoc contigent" is discriminated against in law school and has to put up with a plenty of crap. Abovethelaw USED to be a reprieve from that. Now, it looks like more of the same. Kash and Elie both make politically charged comments and are clearly fairly liberal. Abovethelaw and its predecessor blog, was unique in that Lat was clearly sympathetic to conservatives (although he is anti-Bush) and actually praised many judges that are routinely bashed in law school. He actually made it respectable to defend judges like Kozinski and Scalia. Now that is obviously lost. Abovethelaw is just going to be another liberal blog. Nothing wrong with that but it loses its uniqueness.

Guys used to throw apples at each other all the time when I was in school. It was of minor consequence.

46, as evidenced by tax blog's report on law professor's donations at elite schools, the "fedsoc contigent" is discriminated against in law school and has to put up with a plenty of crap. Abovethelaw USED to be a reprieve from that. Now, it looks like more of the same. Kash and Elie both make politically charged comments and are clearly fairly liberal. Abovethelaw and its predecessor blog, was unique in that Lat was clearly sympathetic to conservatives (although he is anti-Bush) and actually praised many judges that are routinely bashed in law school. He actually made it respectable to defend judges like Kozinski and Scalia. Now that is obviously lost. Abovethelaw is just going to be another liberal blog. Nothing wrong with that but it loses its uniqueness.

52 -- GW2L, so suck it.

Have you guys SEEN Apocalypto?

It's soo awesome.

-Mel Gibson

This kid is a spoiled little brat who has never grown up. He tarnishes his Dad's good name and should be an embarrassment to his family.

"the 'fedsoc contigent' is discriminated against in law school and has to put up with a plenty of crap."

Produce a single iota of proof of this and/or a single documented, verifiable incidient where a member of the Federalist Society was "discriminated against in law school."

I won't even bother to ask you to define "discrimination," since you clearly couldn't.

61-- Suck it.

Love, Mel Gibson

54 = worst attempt to imitate fraternity lothario ever.

i LOVE elie. what a great story.
keep up the good work cuz many more non-morons read this blog than most of these fed-scos would like to believe...

61-- Suck it.

Love, Mel Gibson
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The fact that you even made it to law school is proof that the only discrimination involved is against the people passed over for you and your ilk. Now go put some lipstick on your pig.

63, what do you mean? Guys used to attempt to imitate fraternity lothario all the time when I was in school. Nothing much ever came of it.

63, you obviously went to a state school. Any right-leaning student or even center-left student takes flack for their beliefs from fellow students. Faculty, routinely made snide remarks about Republicans and the Iraq War. If you think that this did not affect grades in seminars and non-anoymous grading classes that were required than you live in a liberal bubble.

61, you obviously went to a state school. Any right-leaning student or even center-left student takes flack for their beliefs from fellow students. Faculty, routinely made snide remarks about Republicans and the Iraq War. If you think that this did not affect grades in seminars and non-anoymous grading classes that were required than you live in a liberal bubble.

21: not only are you "no sports lawyer," but judging from your terrible argument and inability to spell "estoppel" correctly, i'd wager you're no kind of lawyer.

"The fact that you even made it to law school is proof that the only discrimination involved is against the people passed over for you and your ilk."

65, that is not proof of anything. The top-14 schools that accepted me had no way of knowing my political leanings. Being a Republican surely would not have counted in my favor.

Yes, you fed-soc GULCtards are correct. ATL was unique as the only right leaning legal blog.

-The Polack Conspiracy

Chubby Andy should be allowed to do whatever he wants since his daddy saved NY on 9-11.

Can we please get back to how well Giuliani Halverson will fit in with all the GULC kids?

http://thewomblog.com/?p=2060

Ok, so whats the deal with the GULC hating? I can understand hating on Yale or something, but why GULC? Before I came here I had never heard anything bad about them.

63, was post 54 an "attempt to imitate fraternity lothario" or an "immitation of fraternity lothario"? Are you suggesting that 54 somehow was not a genuine immitation, or are you merely wasting our time with superfluous words?

21, you have no idea what you're talking about.

68, quit your crying, will you? it's whiny folks like you who have us in a mental recession.

63, was post 54 an "attempt to imitate fraternity lothario" or an "immitation of fraternity lothario"? Are you suggesting that 54 somehow was not a genuine immitation, or are you merely wasting our time with superfluous words?

16 has to be the best use of the Frat Stud to date.

GULC Stud says Frat Stud doesn't hold a candle to Jiggly Giuliani's antics and kerfuffles.

So you trash Elie for this post, but David L, who posted the original story about this moron, gets off without criticism.

That doesn't make any sense.

And you right wingers are sure thin skinned. Your guys started the nasty community organizer statement, now it gets tossed back to you and your knickers are in a knot?

Faculty, routinely made snide remarks about Republicans and the Iraq War. If you think that this did not affect grades in seminars and non-anoymous grading classes that were required than you live in a liberal bubble.
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Any more excuses for your 2.83 G.P.A. and absence from Law Review?

81, the difference is that Lat's post was well-written and funny, while Elie's post is uninspired and hostile.

I think this is a basic enough proposition, but let me know if I should repeat it for you.

75: I don't get the GULC hating either. I'm proud of my school. And my fellow students are amazing. In fact, the majority of my classmates are in the top ten percent.

-GULC 2009

Giuliani is so fat that he is the GULC 10%.

81, there was nothing nasty about the community organizer statement. If you want to see nasty, read any left-wing blog that comments about: McCain's age or first marriage or POW experiences or Sarah Palin's experience, intelligence, background, children, etc...

Moreover, that Rudy Giuliani who made the remark not anyone on this blog and certainly that shouldn't carry over to his son (who is not on good terms with his father). His son should be judged on his own merits or lack there of.

81, there was nothing nasty about the community organizer statement. If you want to see nasty, read any left-wing blog
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Yeah, we know--conservatives are never nasty.

Signed,
Karl Rove and the story of the black daughter

Community organizers to 160!! Because that's about what Obama would be worth per year!

Yeah, community organizers to 160 would be awesome.

But you know what's even more awesome? Apocalypto... that movie rocked.

-Mel Gibson

Ignore the GULC haters. Most are at GW.

Why are the GULCers and U Penn Staters so oversensitive? Isn't it better to be insulted than ignored?

Not just law school - I think the entire country is saturated with Obama ass-kissing. Don't get me wrong, he seems to be a nice enough guy, and I'm planning to vote for him, but the hero worship is getting sickening.

I appreciated Lat's different point of view.

It seems a lot of GW kids are angry at the GULC kids and thus come venting on this blog. GW is also a great school, so no need to rip others, ok?

GULC kids hate GW kids because they wear better clothes.

Yes, I'm sure that your excellent clothes keep you nice and warm in the doc review basement, 94.

21 = Marc Edelman, who knows neither sports nor the law.

Maybe he should try out for the lacross team.

So the moral of the GULC hating story is that GW kids are just acting out because they're insecure about their school's ranking?