Legalese puzzle: What is the meaning of “p/n/g,” which is sometimes used in case captions in Pennsylvania and occasionally New York? I’m not asking about “PNG,” which sometimes stands for “p/n/g,” but more often for Papua New Guinea, the Professional Numismatists Guild, or other things. UPDATE: Bleh and D.J., in the comments, were the first […]
Archive | 2010
Congrats to David Lewandowski, VC March Madness Champ:
Winner of the Third VC March Madness competition. Although David picked Ohio State to win the championship, he did pick Duke for the final and that apparently was enough. David took a huge lead around the time of the Sweet 16 and held on. To his credit, he nailed Cornell in the Sweet 16. Given […]
Verizon FIOS
A while back, I blogged in praise of Verizon FIOS, and especially my happy experiences with its customer service relative to Comcast. I’m not as happy now. First, I switched to a Triple Play plan. I was promised a mini-computer. I never received the minicomputer. I called twice. Both times I was told that I […]
Duke vs. Butler Post-Game Open Thread
Go ahead and vent.
Against the NCAA Cartel
Most sports fans are currently watching the NCAA basketball championship game. Since my own basketball interests are usually confined to the NBA, I am instead going to take this opportunity to denounce the NCAA’s cartel-like effort to use the power of government to keep its members from paying student athletes for their labor. Economist David […]
Debating Textualism
The University of Pennsylvania Law Review’s online journal, Pennumbra, has a debate on the future viability of textualism. The debate focuses on Professor Jonathan Siegel’s important recent article, “The Inexorable Radicalization of Textualism,” which contends that textualism necessarily leads to unacceptable results and is therefore doomed to lose the “interpretation wars.” Here’s a summary of […]
Toyota Facing $16 Million Fine …
From an entity that is probably best described not as the US government but as the competition’s board of directors. Your humble blogger Professor Anderson and his Beloved Wife, on the other hand, went out and bought a Camry on the last day of the 0% financing sale. Although mostly engaged in Rational Ignorance on […]
Student Internships and Minimum Wage Laws
The New York Times has a story today essentially noting that many unpaid internships for young people and students violate minimum wage laws. Are any VC readers of the view that enforcement of these minimum wage laws will lead to increased employment of the interns? I’m not being cute; I’d be curious to know if […]
Predator Drone Warfare – Assorted Links
By Kenneth Anderson on April 5, 2010 5:23 pm in Counter-Terrorism Policy, Robotics, Targeted Killing, Uncategorized, War and Armed Conflict, War on Terror
It’s not true that everything I do is about drone warfare, but it has taken a lot of my time lately and, of course, a lot of stuff is happening, both on the operational side as well as legal side. So here’s a little round-up of links, more or less at random. First, the New […]
“The Rise of the New Paternalism”
My friend Prof. Glen Whitman writes about this — as well as about slippery slopes — in Cato Unbound.
Massive Problems with Anti-Obama Allegations That Have Been Making the Rounds Recently
[UPDATE: I just received a message from the Content Manager for Right Side News, which had posted the article I cite below, saying that the article has been removed (I’ve updated the link below to point to the Google-cached version). The message explained that, “After reading the article written that addressed the errors in an […]
We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming . . .
There were a bunch of things I was thinking about blogging today, but I’ve been sidetracked by the trade of Donovan McNabb to the Washington Redskins. For a die-hard Philly sports fan, this is a lot to digest on a Monday morning.
Legal Research Using Google Scholar
Over at FourthAmendment.com, John Wesley Hall suggests that Google Scholar is a very helpful way to find and link to caselaw online. I’ve fiddled with it a bit, and I think it’s a great tip. For example, if you want to read cases on the “reasonable expectation of privacy” test, you enter “reasonable expectation of […]
Legal Clinics Under Siege
The New York Times reports that law school legal clinics continue to spark controversy and political backlash, particularly (though not exclusively) at state-supported schools. The story keys on efforts by some Maryland legislators to defund the clinic at the University of Maryland law school unless the clinic turns over information about its clients and its […]
Conversations with Justice Stevens
This morning there are interesting articles based on interviews with Justice John Paul Stevens in both the New York Times and Washington Post. In each he talks about his time on the Court and his contemplation of retirement.