Nick Gillespie notes that Peter McWilliams died ten years ago today. McWilliams was a resister of the War On Drugs. He was also one of its casualties. McWilliams was very sick with AIDS and cancer, and the medicines he used made him nauseated, which he was able to ameliorate by smoking marijuana. The DEA charged McWilliams with various crimes in connection with a medical … [Read more...] about Peter McWilliams, Ten Years Gone
Trial Lawyers and the Winner’s Curse
Chances are, you don't enjoy movies as much as you think you will. That's because movie tickets present us consumers with a tricky problem of incomplete knowledge. We want to buy tickets to movies we'll enjoy, but the only sure way to know how much we'll enjoy a movie is to watch it, and we can't do that unless we've already bought a ticket. So we try to make an educated guess. … [Read more...] about Trial Lawyers and the Winner’s Curse
The METDI Defense
Jeff Gamso has a fascinating post about the probabilities behind a DNA match. If you do felony criminal law (from either side of the aisle) and I tell you the number is 6.17 quadrillion, you probably assume that I'm talking about DNA. The number will reflect just how unlikely it is that the DNA in the whatever left at the scene could have come from anyone other than the … [Read more...] about The METDI Defense
What’s Wrong With Selling Internships?
Some of the lawyers on my blogroll have been poking fun at a guy named Jack Marshall. He calls himself an "ethicist," runs a consulting firm called ProEthics, and has a blog called Ethics Alarms. I don't really know anything about him, but I thought his blog might make a good source of stuff for me to write about. For the most part, his blog turns out to be about ethical … [Read more...] about What’s Wrong With Selling Internships?
Scott Greenfield Wants a Better SER
Scott Greenfield wants to improve his search engine results, so I'm writing this post to improve Scott Greenfield's search engine results. If you want to know why Scott Greenfield would like a better search engine result, you can read the explanation from Scott Greenfield himself. … [Read more...] about Scott Greenfield Wants a Better SER