I just finished reading Michael Fumento’s article on the feared Avian flu pandemic, “Fuss and Feathers“. It is a long piece, but worth reading. Fumento’s bottom line is that it is highly unlikely that the Avian flu will turn out to be a major pandemic. First, many flue pandemics have been predicted since the Spanish […]
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Anna Nicole Smith in the Supreme Court:
Five or ten years ago, what odds would anyone have given me that I would ever write the phrase “Anna Nicole Smith in the Supreme Court”? Nonetheless, as many are surely aware, the Anna Nicole Smith bankruptcy case is indeed in the Supreme Court. The excellent Bankruptcy Litigation Blog has promised wall-to-wall coverage of the […]
Fair and Balanced?
It is being reported that Fox News is refusing to run an Anti-Alito television ad, claiming it is relying on its lawyer’s assessment that the ad is “factually incorrect” in the way that it portrays a particular Alito decision. The story is in the Washington Post, and oddly enough, the same story appears on the […]
Ronaldinho’s Warm Up:
For soccer fans out there, if you haven’t seen this clip of Ronaldinho that has been making the rounds, check it out. Make sure to watch the second half where he casually bangs the ball off the crossbar and back to himself a couple of times from the top of the box. Amazing. On the […]
Alito’s Bankruptcy Jurisprudence:
Nathalie Martin, the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Resident Scholar, has just released an extensive analysis of Judge Alito’s bankruptcy jurisprudence. The essay also has some analysis of Alito’s statutory interpretation methodology as well.
Lawyer Sues Airline for Bumping and Wins:
“When an Aviation Lawyer Gets Bumped, the Airline Pays.”
Sharp Drop In Consumer Bankruptcy Filings:
From WaPo: In the month since a new bankruptcy law took effect, the number of Americans filing for protection from their creditors has slowed to a trickle, running at one-tenth the normal number of filings. Last week, the nation’s federal bankruptcy courts received about 3,600 petitions, according to Lundquist Consulting Inc., a California financial research […]
Kelo Homeowners Still There:
The New York Times has an update on the stalled eviction of the Kelo homeowners. Update: Tom Blumer has more on the Times story here as well as commentary by the Scott Bullock of the Institute for Justice here.
Piereson on College Giving:
Jim Pierson of the late Olin Foundation has an interesting column today on the potential perils of unrestricted giving to colleges and universities and the growing movement by donors to prevent misuse of their funds.
Dilbert Blog:
I just learned from Joe Malchow that Scott Adams now has a blog, known appropriately enough as Dilbert Blog. Joe points to this post explaining why a police officer is shown in one Dilbert strip firing a donut at a perp, rather than a gun. Update: I deleted the second paragraph of the original post […]
The Dartmouth Review Celebrates 25 Years:
The Dartmouth Review celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year and to honor the occastion, ISI Books will be publishing an edition of the Review’s greatest hits. James Panero has more (HT: Dartmouth Review). Love ’em or hate ’em, The Review not only has shaped much of many of Dartmouth’s culture controversies for the past 25 […]
FAIR v. Rumsfeld:
A couple of interesting columns in the Weekly Standard on FAIR v. Rumsfeld, the Solomon Amendment case, “Don’t Serve / Don’t Tell: The limits of liberal tolerance at Harvard Law School” by Harvard Law Student Kate Thornton Buzicky and Scott Johnson’s “JAGS Not Welcome: America’s top law schools try to figure out a way around […]
“Support Creditors” Under Bankruptcy Reform Law:
Years ago, in the early days of the bankruptcy reform debate, the argument was made that somehow the bankruptcy reform legislation would injure those seeking to collect domestic support obligations from divorced spouses/parents. Given the manifest and unequivocal improvements for these creditors in the legislation, this argument was soon recognized to be unsupportable, and largely […]
Constitutional Challenge to BAPCPA:
The American Bankruptcy Institute reports that a Minnesota firm has filed a constitutional challenge to the bankruptcy reform legislation: The law firm Milavetz, Gallop & Milavetz P.A. is challenging the constitutionality of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA) for allegedly violating the First and Fifth Amendment rights of attorneys and […]
Latest on Kelo and New London:
Tom Blumer has the latest, including an upset victory by two upstarts on Election Day.