Pro Se Litigants
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DUI / DWI, Election Law, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Pornography, Pro Se Litigants, State Judges, Television, Trademarks
Non-Sequiturs: 10.27.14
* After being temporarily suspended as part of “Porngate” for trafficking in “highly demeaning portrayals of members of various segments of the population, including women, elderly persons, and uniformed school girls,” Seamus McCaffrey retires from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. [Philadelphia Daily News] * A group of women lawyers in Miami has called for NBC to cancel Bad Judge because it “depicts a female judge as unethical, lazy, crude, hyper-sexualized, and unfit to hold such an esteemed position of power.” Indeed there’s no place for depicting women judges that way on TV. Especially when Miami is perfectly capable of depicting them that way in real life. [Crushable] * Epic trademark infringement. [Legal Cheek] * Crazy pro se guy slapped down in Canada. [Lowering the Bar] * While almost everyone else is seeing lower applications, USC Law saw a 5 percent bump. [USC Gould School of Law] * Stanford and Dartmouth in hot water over election law charges in Montana. Apparently piercing the imaginary veil of non-partisanship in judicial elections is the problem and not the whole idea of judicial elections in the first place. [Montana Standard] -
Defamation, Lunacy, Pro Se Litigants
Unhinged Pro Se Filing Of The Day
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Bad Ideas, Crime, Death Penalty, Murder, Pro Se Litigants, Quote of the Day, Sentencing Law, State Judges, Trials, Violence
Much Maligned Murderess To Represent Herself In Death Penalty Case
This is probably a very bad decision on her part.
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Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Divorce Train Wrecks, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Legal Ethics, Murder, Pro Se Litigants, Trials, Violence, White House Counsel
Ex-White House Lawyer And Fortune 500 General Counsel Gets Convicted Of Attempted Murder
The latest chapter in a sad and disturbing story. -
Law Professors, Law Schools, Pro Se Litigants, Ridiculousness
Law Student Sues Over Bad Grade That Destroyed His Legal Career
Did we mention that he wants $100,000 in damages for "years of not being in a legal career"? -
Football, Jonathan Lee Riches, Pro Se Litigants, Quote of the Day, Ridiculousness
Johnny Manziel Is Being Sued Over The Size Of His Package
Do good things come in small packages? This football player allegedly says so! -
Gay Marriage, Pornography, Pro Se Litigants, Technology
Apple Porn Guy Wants To Marry His Porn-Filled Computer
Chris Sevier is back at it, now he's trying to use his addiction to computer porn to keep gay people from getting married. And if that doesn't make sense, you should try reading his motion. -
Drinking, Food, Law Schools, Litigators, Pro Se Litigants
Muscle Milk + Pro Se Litigant = Hilarity
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Biglaw, Partner Issues, Pro Se Litigants, Quote of the Day, Tobacco / Smoking
Pro Se Litigant Trolls Biglaw Partner About Quality Of His Law Degree
Meet the pro se litigant whose communications are so menacing that a Biglaw firm got a restraining order against him. -
Admin, Announcements, Asians, Bar Exams, Biglaw, Bonuses, Celebrities, Divorce Train Wrecks, Law Schools, Magic Circle, Money, Partner Issues, Pro Se Litigants, Racism, Rankings, Reality TV, Sexism, Small Law Firms, U.S. News, Videos, Women's Issues, YouTube
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Baseball, ERISA, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Pro Se Litigants, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 12.24.13
Ed. note: Merry Christmas! We will resume our normal publication schedule on Boxing Day. We hope you have a wonderful holiday, and we thank you for your readership. * Adoption, probate, and Elf. You know what child welfare really needs to look into is leaving kids to be raised in a sweatshop; that seems like a much bigger problem than an intestate parent. [The Legal Geeks] * Were you looking for analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Kansas v. Cheever, but don’t have time to commit to a full article? Here it is in Haiku. [Supreme Court Haiku] * Man declared a “quarrelsome litigant.” What’s the threshold for that moniker? Well, he filed a case against the Dominican Republic for “bad weather.” [Lowering the Bar] * The Top 5 arrests of guys dressed as Santa. [Legally Weird] * Professor Barry Sullivan of Loyola-Chicago explains how A Christmas Carol shaped his legal philosophy. And yet, if one were to pick one Dickens book to prepare a young lawyer for the profession, a better bet would be Bleak House (affiliate link). [TaxProf Blog] * Happy anniversary to the Curt Flood case! [Lawyers, Guns & Money] -
Attorney Misconduct, Crime, Divorce Train Wrecks, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Legal Ethics, Pro Se Litigants, Trials, Violence, White House Counsel
Ex-Skadden Lawyer Wins $28.6 Million From Her Ex-Husband (A Former GC And White House Lawyer)
It's hard to believe how badly everything turned out for this former power couple; she was once a lawyer at Skadden, and he served as general counsel to a Fortune 500 company and as a deputy White House counsel. -
Amy Schulman, Biglaw, Boalt Hall, Drugs, Gay, General Counsel, John Roberts, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Pro Se Litigants, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Morning Docket: 12.19.13
* An NSA review panel thinks the Chief Justice of the United States shouldn’t be the only one appointing judges to the FISA Court. We imagine John Roberts is pulling a Stuart Smalley. Don’t worry, you’re good enough. [Blog of Legal Times]
* Sadly, Amy Schulman, one of America’s most influential lawyers and best-paid general counsel, is out at Pfizer. After leading the charge against outside counsel’s hourly billing, we doubt she’ll head back to DLA Piper. [Corporate Counsel]
* Scott Bloch, former head of the Office of Special Counsel in the GWB administration, allegedly hated gay staffers so much he shipped them to Detroit. That settles it: he really hated them. [Blog of Legal Times]
* Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed a bill that would ban all private employers — except the government — from running credit checks on new hires. Let’s go rack up some credit card debt! [National Law Journal]
* Law schools are facing enrollment problems, but Boalt Hall and Santa Clara Law saw the size of their entering classes rise. Flooding the entry-level job market continues to be celebrated. [The Recorder]
* “Yes — I do share nose candy with these girls. For free. For my personal use, OK?” Pro se litigants say the darndest things. Good thing this guy got an attorney before things got worse. [Albany Times Union]
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BuckleySandler, Contract Attorneys, Document Review, Pro Se Litigants, Staff Attorneys / Discovery Attorneys
Which Law Firm Is Getting Sued By A Contract Attorney Now?
A contract attorney sues a law firm, alleging everyone was out to get him. -
Lunacy, Pro Se Litigants, State Judges, Videos
Pro Se Litigant Starts Yelling At A Judge And It's All On Video
Watch one man fly off the handle about the tyranny of paying $26. -
Benchslaps, Federal Judges, Pro Se Litigants, Screw-Ups
Federal Judge Issues Sick Burn, Compares Lawyer's Filings To Those Of Pro Se Litigant
What could this attorney have done to anger the judge so terribly? -
Craigslist, Football, iPhone, Jury Duty, Law Schools, Lawrence Lessig, Non-Sequiturs, Pro Se Litigants, Technology, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Non-Sequiturs: 09.25.13
* Apple gave the iPhone 5 fingerprint database to the NSA. This would be a gross invasion of privacy but Tim Cook masterminded this, so the NSA got the Ecce Homo of fingerprint image captures. [Hackers News Bulletin] * Charlie Sheen got dismissed from jury duty after only one day. #winning [TMZ] * Gordon from Sesame Street lost his palimony case. That’s because he was trying to duck out on the woman who mothered his “1… 2… 3… 4 kids! [thunderclap] Ah… ah… ah!” [Jezebel] * Remember the early days of Twitter? Legal Cheek went back and found some of the earliest Tweets from British legal luminaries. It’s just funnier when you imagine an English accent saying, “I appear to be on Twitter… why, I have no idea.” [Legal Cheek] * If you saw last week’s post on crazy people who claim that no court can try them because of maritime law, check out this epic opinion from Canada. Identifying those folks, like the maritime gang from last week, as Organized Pseudolegal Commercial Argument (“OPCA”) litigants, the opinion is 180 pages seeking “to uncover, expose, collate, and publish the tactics employed by the OPCA community.” [Alberta Courts] * Police crack down on a motorized bar stool. That’s fair, because if there’s one motor vehicle that you’re likely to fall off… [Lowering the Bar] * Professor Ilya Somin is touring the country and coming to a law school near you promoting his new book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (affiliate link). Small government does usually smart, as in “cause a sharp, stinging pain.” [The Volokh Conspiracy] * An HLS grad working for the World Bank was rescued from the Kenyan mall hostage crisis. We wish her the best. [Daily Mail] * Senator Elizabeth Warren and Professor Lawrence Lessig are going to be speaking at an event called “The Founders v. The Roberts Court: Corruption, Campaign Finance, and McCutcheon v. FEC” tomorrow at noon Eastern. The event will be livestreamed at the link. [Constitutional Accountability Center] * Craigslist is suing Craigstruck, a company that specializes in delivering items ordered off of Craigslist. It’s how all those $5/hour attorneys get from place to place. Anyway, the owner of Craigstruck proposed to settle the legal dispute via football wager with Craigslist. If only all disputes could be settled this way. Video wager after the jump… -
Jurisdiction, Lunacy, Maritime Law, Pro Se Litigants, Videos, Weirdness
The Stupid Pro Se Legal 'Theory' Making the Rounds
Here's some more color on the nature of this encroachment of maritime jurisdiction onto our soil -- land ho! -
Law Schools, Lawsuit of the Day, Pro Se Litigants
Law Student Sues School For Making Him Retake a Class He Failed
Schools just can't get over that requirement that you "actually pass" classes to graduate. -
Crime, Pro Se Litigants, Rape, State Judges
Court Clerk Helps Free Innocent Man and Gets Fired For Her Effort
Proving that judges and prosecutors are wrong may be hazardous to your career.