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"We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden "I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance." -- ColeridgeCue the music. The United Nations has proclaimed today, November 16, as the International Day of Tolerance. This came in the wake of the UN proclaimimg 1995 the International … [Read more...] about Blawg Review #238: Celebrating the International Day of Tolerance … and the NRA’s Birthday

Popehat has Blawg Review #233 today, and the theme is based on the story of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. If you haven't heard of Emperor Norton before, it's a cool story. By the way, thanks to my co-blogger Joel, Blawg Review will be coming here in about a month. … [Read more...] about Blawg Review at Popehat

The Ninth Circuit just decided United States v. Comprehensive Drug Testing which includes some very important new rules for seizing data on people's computers. Or so I'm told by folks like Scott Greenfield and Orin Kerr, who understand these things far better than me. As I understand the problem Kozinski is trying to solve, the government used to treat a search for anything on … [Read more...] about The Cyber Revolution Reaches the Ninth Circuit

I gave Avvo Answers---Avvo's forum for lawyers to answer questions for free---a test drive a couple weeks ago with a test question about bailing someone out, and the result was a bit confusing, but I eventually got the answer I was looking for. You can read about it all in three short posts starting here: Adventures In Avvo - Take 1. I just got email saying my question had been … [Read more...] about Adventures In Avvo – Take 4

I've been posting about my attempt to get an answer to a simple question using Avvo Answers. In Take 1, an out-of-state lawyer provided a wrong answer. In Take 2, our own Jeremy Richey provided a good answer that misseda part of the question. I clarified my question, and now Jeremy has provided the final answer in a comment to Take 2. My clarified question was: If the bond is … [Read more...] about Adventures In Avvo – Take 3