October 2010

  • Tucker Max Gets Sued By Duke Law

    You know what scares me? There’s a version of my career where I end up as the bizzaro version of Tucker Max. The “fat, black, and married” version of Tucker Max. The “other guy” who used douchebag behavior to get through elite institutions, just like Tucker Max. It’s like, if I everything goes wrong for […]
  • Gender, Holidays and Seasons, Minority Issues

    Halloween Harassment

    I hate this holiday. I hated this holiday as a kid for personal safety reasons. As an adult, it’s pretty clear that Halloween has devolved into nothing more than an excuse for girls to dress up as sluts and guys to be racist. That’s what it is, the one day where everybody can get away […]
  • Lawsuit of the Day, Old People

    4-year-old Speed Racer Gets Sued

    I already mentioned this in Morning Docket, but the issue deserves a full post. A little girl of 4-years-old barreled her bike into an old lady on a Manhattan sidewalk. The 87-year-old woman broke her hip, and subsequently died. Despite being just four-years-old at the time of the accident, State Supreme Court judge Paul Wooten […]
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  • Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 10.29.10

    * Haliburton — already responsible for a cartoonish level of evil — knew the cement used in the BP Deepwater Horizon well was flawed. [American Lawyer] * Four-year-old girl can be sued for racing her bike — and killing an elderly woman. [ABA Journal] * FCC tells Verizon exactly how much they owe the government. […]

  • Holidays and Seasons, Law Schools

    A Guide to Suing Santa Claus

    One unintended consequence of the terrible legal job market is that we’ve got law students running around with a lot of time on their hands. They’re not preparing for callback interviews, they’re not eagerly anticipating new legal challenges. Instead they’re sitting around, bored and terrified, and lashing out at whatever they can. Mostly, they lash […]
  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 10.28.10

    * For all of you fantasizing about hooking up with Christine O’Donnell, here’s how it would go down. [Gawker] * I’m not sure how you follow up a link which includes a story about Christine O’Donnell’s… carpet. But here’s a very funny pleading that went down this summer. [Lowering the Bar] * She-Hulk is #3 […]
  • Admin, Announcements, Travel / Vacation

    Out of Office Memo

    To quote The Bard, “Brevity is the soul of wit.” So I’ll make this vacation memo witty. (Elie writes great vacation memos, but I don’t aspire to his standards.) I’m going on vacation, from today until Monday, November 8. And unlike my usual “vacations,” which involve constant checking of the Crackberry, this time I’m going […]
  • Judge of the Day

    When Judges Get Funny

    You think making pop culture references is something only bloggers do? Well think again. Because it seems judges on the Maryland Court of Appeals are getting into the game. A reader dug up a case from this summer involving whether or not the state met the burden of proof necessary to show that a pot […]

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