Morning Docket 02.16.09
Happy Presidents’ Day! Or Washington and Lincoln Day. Or George Washington Day for Virginians. Or Washington and Jefferson Day if you’re in Alabama. Whatever you call it, we hope you have it off; we do. In honor of the executive branch, ATL will be on a reduced publication schedule today.
* Adam Cohen asks, “Is the Supreme Court About to Kill Off the Exclusionary Rule?” [New York Times]
* A Facebook status update for Quinn Emmanuel might say “Whoops.” A firm PR newsletter bragged about the $65 million that its client ConnectU got out of Facebook… in a confidential settlement. [Los Angeles Times]
* Good news for those looking for work: U.S. Attorneys’ offices in New York have vacancies. Bad news: they may not have the money to fill the empty spots. [Newsday]
* Open-government advocates want PACER to be as easy to use as Google, and free. [New York Times]
* Lawsuit of the Day: iFart Mobile vs. Pull My Finger. [VentureBeat]
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first to say that elie lost his laptop playing craps and now will be forced to resign.
Bad link for the last one
Adam Cohen wrote the NY Times article
As a celebrator of Presidents' Day, all I can say is...
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS FOR JOHN MCCAIN!
An iFart story would never have been posted if Elie was not on vacation.
First to say happy president's day!
Adam Cohen's NY Times Editorial is impressive... Impressive in that it says absolutely NOTHING new or interesting.
It would be awesome if PACER were free
If you google it, the facebook settlement, though redacted, was viewable if you copied and pasted the redacted portions into Word
Adam Liptak DID write an article on this topic on 1/30/2009. Cohen pretty much rewrote Liptak's article and added some opinion to it. Who is Adam Cohen???
here in michigan we don't like presidents or their special day.
*trudges off to my next class*
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-nervous T-10 1L
soon to be nervous 1L sa
7/10 - agreed. Cohen adds nothing to the conversation and doesn't address the multiple rebuttals out there against the (old) points he presents. He could have at least touched on fortified tort remedies and attempts at federal legislation regulating improperly procured evidence.
Where in Virginia do they call it George Washington Day? I'm a northern Virginia native and I always thought we called it President's Day?
At UVA, we just call it Monday.
I gotta get out of here. I think I'm going to lose it.
Way to break the Quinn story. And linking to an article from a week ago, top notch reporting.
13, you are probably used to the Federal holidays in northern Va. The Va. state government holiday does not honor Lincoln, for historical reasons. In a similar vein, when the Martin Luther King holiday was first added in Virginia, it was aggregated with the state holiday, "Lee-Jackson Day" becoming "Lee-Jackson-King Day" for a few years, until the irony was apparently too great and King got his own holiday - which is on a Friday in Virginia, because the Monday that is Martin Luther King Day in the rest of the country is still "Lee-Jackson Day" in Virginia.
See Va. state holiday schedule:
http://www.dhrm.virginia.gov/calendar2009.pdf
Oops, 16 here, my mistake. Lee Jackson Day is now Friday and King gets the Monday holiday in January.
Does anybody still read the New York Times?
No such thing as Presidents' Day. Today's legal holiday (the third Monday in feb.) is Washington's Birthday. There was an attempt to rename the holiday to Presidents' Day in the '60s, but it was rejected by Congress.
The current law is 5 U.S.C. §6103:
"The following are legal public holidays:
New Year’s Day, January 1.
Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., the third Monday in January.
Washington’s Birthday, the third Monday in February.
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May.
Independence Day, July 4.
Labor Day, the first Monday in September.
Columbus Day, the second Monday in October.
Veterans Day, November 11.
Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November.
Christmas Day, December 25."
First??
From the NYT article on the exclusionary rule:
"[Overruling the principle] would be a great setback for the rule of law."
I choked on my coffee I laughed so hard. Cohen, I think what you meant to say is "overruling the principle would be a great setback for my personal world view'." Who is this guy? And why is he such an idiot? "Rule of law" means something--it's not just a term you throw out there to criticize stuff you don't like.
Ugh, it has been 3 hours already ... hasn't someone been fired yet.
My husband likes to have sex more than once a year. Is that normal?
23 -- no, not with you it isn't.
I take it "reduced publication schedule" means no posts at all.
21 - presumably that was meant to be interpreted as "[Overruling the principle] would be a great setback for the status quo."
uranidiot.
Reduced publication schedule? On Presidents' day? Wow. Laaaahhhhaaazzzy.
I am a 3L, and I am entitled to more updates from the ATL staff.
Mid-Afternoon Docket?
People, people, people. Let us be happy with the quiet on an off day like this. Normally, we would be stuck with irrelevant, unfunny, grammatically incorrect commentary by Elie.
I don't understand the relationship between President's Day and Elie getting the day off to scarf pastries. Please advise.
30 -- instead, we are stuck with unfunny, grammatically incorrect crap from you. STFU.
It's 2:22 and not a single new post....Evidence is brutally boring without ATL. Get it together Kash.
"reduced publication schedule" = ZERO posts
I'm so happy I voted for Marin in the ATL editor sweepstakes - she's doing AWESOME today
Bored in evidence? Do what I did 5 years ago and play yahoo pool and poker online. Goal should be to pay for the nights drinks each day.
16 - You were only half correct. Presidents' Day is an advertising fiction. There is no such holiday.
Legally, today is Washington's Birthday. Virginia, being Washington's home state, recognizes today as George Washington Day.
19 has it right.
For an interesting article about the court-transparency debate, see Lynn M. LoPucki, Court Transparency, 94 Iowa Law Rev. (forthcoming February 2009).
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The Quinn $85 million dollar typo really should get its own story. What on earth was the PR department thinking? And how did they gain access to information that was supposedly under seal in the first place?