To honor the passing of "Ed," the anonymous editor of Blawg Review, several blawgers have banded together to assemble one last Blawg Review. The chain starts at Blawg Review and continues around through all the usual suspects.I never got around to doing a Blawg Review -- it always seemed like too much responsibility -- but my co-blogger, Joel Rosenberg (also gone too soon) … [Read more...] about Once More With Feeling
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No Jury Duty
I dodged a...not a bullet, more like a slow-lobbed softball...today. I was a standby juror for the Cook County courtroom in Skokie today, but when I called in, only people with last names beginning H through S had to report.I'm relieved. Somehow, this time it just seemed like a drag.Although at least they've straightened out the cell phone situation, and all the juror … [Read more...] about No Jury Duty
Physical Reality and the Federal Rules of Evidence
Jamison Koehler has a short post quoting from the Federal Rules of Evidence: According to Federal Rule of Evidence 401, the test for relevance is whether the evidence has a “tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.” I've heard that language before, … [Read more...] about Physical Reality and the Federal Rules of Evidence
Just Ignore Those Silly Blue Lights (Updated)
Consider the case of Jonathon Dryer, arrested in Georgia in 2010 for possession of marijuana after a police officer pulled him over as he drove out of a country club parking lot. But during this conversation, the officer smelled the odor of burnt marijuana and noticed that Dryer appeared nervous. Consequently, the officer asked Dryer for consent to search his vehicle. And when … [Read more...] about Just Ignore Those Silly Blue Lights (Updated)
Someday They’ll Get It
Today's fun Supreme Court fact (it was today's when I started writing this) is that according to Justice Elena Kagen, most of the justices don't know shit about computers and the internet. That makes sense since they're (1) lawyers and (2) old."The justices are not necessarily the most technologically sophisticated people," she said, adding that while clerks email one … [Read more...] about Someday They’ll Get It