Kristi Noem Thinks Habeas Corpus Is A Deportation Spell
DHS Secretary faceplants her cold call.
Sullcrom Is Super Proud Of Themselves For Making It Easier For The State To Confine The Innocent
I hope Jones takes some solace in knowing that he may actually be one of the innocent ones.
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‘Al-Tounsi’ An Interview With Novelist And Playwright Anton Piatigorsky
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No, A Judge Didn’t Say Chimpanzees Are People
No, a judge didn't really say chimpanzees have personhood -- check out the order.
Judge Benchslaps Fellow Jurist In Awesomely Feisty Footnote
Whoa, these judges probably shouldn't sit next to each other on the bench at court.
Ninth Circuit Orders Release Of Man Due To Prosecutorial Misconduct
Check out the video; arguing this case probably wasn't fun for the government lawyer.
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Appeals Court Hears Chimpanzee Rights Case
Is New York on the brink of a revolution in animal law? Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle!
Non-Sequiturs: 03.18.14
* “How many years would you put a TV pitchman in jail? 3 years? 5 years? Don’t answer yet…” [Sentencing Law and Policy] * So there’s a sex tape of Chris Christie. Except it isn’t him. They should have known Christie could never be a porn star. You can’t get far in the porn biz by saying, “This lane is closed.” [Gawker] * Dolt Duped By Date Sues OKCupid. [NY Post] * Patents are a terrible measure of innovation. Hold on, I defy you to besmirch the Anti-Drowning Hat. [Concurring Opinions] * Wage theft in fast food shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the role played by the franchise model in creating labor law violations is intriguing. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * A gathering of business development tips, including shout outs to Anonymous Partner and Mark Herrmann. [Corporette] * What better qualification to challenge for the Vegas DA’s job than to be prosecuted by that office days before the election? [Las Vegas Law Blog] * A Baltimore lawyer aggressively used the habeas process to release mentally ill girls to serve as personal slaves to the wealthy. [Slate] * Weil’s Business Finance & Restructuring team is putting together a March Madness bracket based on quotes from bankruptcy decisions. Let the excitement wash over you. Having not seen the bracket yet, I’m reserving judgment on what an awesome array of bankruptcy quotes would look like. [Bankruptcy Blog] * Kevin O’Keefe, who presented on my panel at our Attorney@Blog conference, left all of us touched with his tribute to Above the Law. [Real Lawyers Have Blogs]
Lawsuit Of The Apes
Who will speak for the chimps?
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: The Death Penalty Dilemma
A conservative's argument against the death penalty.
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Non-Sequiturs: 08.22.11
* Does your fledgling company need a full-time general counsel? Lance Levy lays out some considerations. [In-House Blog] * Why is Marc Randazza “the most inappropriate man in the world”? Well, how many briefs have you filed with phallus-filled footnotes? (Say that last part ten times fast.) [Popehat] * New England Patriots defensive tackle Albert […]
Quote of the Day: A Call for Reform
[T]he never-ending stream of futile petitions suggests that habeas corpus is a wasteful nuisance. By almost any measure, the use, and abuse, of habeas by convicted state prisoners is a failure, one that could corrode one of the most revered pillars of our legal system. — Professors Joseph Hoffmann and Nancy King, in an interesting […]