Here’s the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary’s public censure in the case (paragraph breaks added): PUBLIC CENSURE May 1, 2009 The Honorable Durwood G. Moore Dickson County General Sessions Judge Post Office Box 217 Charlotte, Tennessee 37036 In re: Complaint of Benjamin J. Marchant vs. Judge Durwood G. Moore Dear Judge Moore: This shall serve […]
Archive | 2010
Best unknown gun rights writer? Howard Nemerov
The Examiner on-line newspapers have provided forum for a bevy of authors who write on Second Amendment and firearms policy issues. There are plenty of good writers among them, but my favorite is Howard Nemerov, who writes for the Austin Examiner. Howard´s columns are often data-rich (such as his latest piece, on the failures of police […]
Bloggers: Romney is most likely Repub.nominee in 2012, and would be the strongest candidate
This week’s National Journal poll of asked right-leaning bloggers to list the 5 most-likely Republican presidential nominees in 2012. Left-leaning bloggers were asked to name which Republican would be the strongest candidate. Mitt Romney won both races handily. I voted for Romney as most likely, but don’t think he would be the most likely candidate to win the […]
New Case on Computer Searches, Encryption, and Plain View: United States v. Kim
A federal district court in Texas recently handed down a new case on the scope of computer warrant searches that shows how important and yet uncertain the rules of computer search and seizure are these days: United States v. Kim, — F.Supp.2d —, 2009 WL 5185389 (S.D. Texas 2009). The case was handed down December […]
Minnesota Prosecutors Decline to Charge Man for Posting Anti-Islam Cartoons Outside Mosque, Somali-Owned Store, and Other Places
The St. Cloud Times reports, and includes the letters from the prosecutors, one from the Stearns County and the other from Benton County. (Too bad more news outlets don’t include or point to the original documents this way.) Minnesota Public Radio has more factual details, noting that the “cartoons [were] posted on a couple of […]
The Iceland of the Internet:
Those of you who know my writing on matters of Internet law and jurisdiction will understand why I like this little item. The folks over at wikileaks.org* have put together what sounds like a reasonably serious proposal to prepare a jurisdictional “safe haven” for information on the global network, a set of highly-protective laws for […]
Too Many Law Schools?
So argues this op-ed piece in the L.A. Times. Here’s a snippet of the argument: Remember the old joke about 20,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea being “a good start”? Well, in an interesting twist, thousands of lawyers now find themselves drowning in the unemployment line as the legal sector is being badly […]
The White House Review of the Christmas Attack: A Quick Response to Jim
I have a different response than does my co-blogger Jim Lindgren to the recently-released White House summary of tentative findings as to how the counterterrorism community failed to detect and stop the Christmas attack. Jim is right that the government report does not give a full account, and it doesn’t give full credit to the […]
Ten Unanswered Questions in the Flight 253 Summary
On Thursday the White House released a summary of a preliminary report on the attempted bombing of a Christmas flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. I was disappointed by the lack of a clear description of what happened. Indeed, the attempted bomber is barely mentioned. It reads like a document written by bureaucrats for bureaucrats […]
Are We “Significant” Yet?
From United States v. Reeves, decided today by the Second Circuit: This appeal requires us to consider the validity of a condition of supervised release [following a prison term for possessing child pornography] that obligated Reeves, upon entry into a “significant romantic relationship,” to notify the United States Probation Department and to inform the other […]
Declining Minority Enrollment Percentage at U.S. Law Schools, 1993-2008
This study reports that between 1993 and 2008, there was a 7.5% decrease in the proportion of African Americans enrolled in U.S. law schools. The study also reports a 11.7% decrease in the proportion of Mexican Americans during the same period. (Hat tip: Brian Leiter) I would guess the increasing importance of the U.S. News […]
Any U.S. District of Colorado Bar Members Who Could Act as Local Counsel on an Amicus Brief, Due Monday?
An unusual bleg: I’d like to file a pro bono amicus brief (on my own behalf) by Monday, January 11, in the U.S. District of Colorado. It appears, though, that to do that I’d have to join the District of Colorado bar and sign up for the District’s CM/ECF system. I thought that if any […]
Further Limitations on Civil Liberties…
Many of us said during the days of the Bush administration that restrictions on civil liberties motivated by the conflict with Al Qaeda would be maintained during any subsequent administration, whether Democratic or Republican, as long as the terrorist threat remained. This prediction has been amply confirmed. The most recent example is the implementation of […]
If a Siamese Twin Commits Murder, Does His Brother Get Punished Too?
Slate has this interesting analysis of the question.
A Future Wave of Speech Codes, Though Enforced Through Exclusion from the Bar and Not Just University Discipline?
I was asked to note an AALS panel, put together by the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education, and I’m happy to do so: Saturday, Jan. 9, 8:30–10:15 am: The First Amendment Meets Cyber-Stalking Meets Character and Fitness Cyber-stalking and cyber-harassment have made their way to the legal academy. Some scholars say that on-line […]