Archive for April, 2007
Vinson & Elkins Sponsored Libricide
Houston Chronicle: FIVE QUESTIONS WITH SUSAN YANCEY: Law librarian describes continuing evolution of her work
Q: In this age of online research, you have a lot of books here. Have they stopped being important?
A: This is still probably the largest private law library in the Southwest. But in our recent remodeling, we threw out railroad cars […]
His Sense of Irony is also Slightly Impaired
Centre Daily: Man charged with DUI on way to DUI hearing
A man charged with drunken driving on the way to a drunken driving hearing said he probably will have to quit drinking.
Classic.
Should we recognize negligent infliction of emotional distress in death of pets?
PHOTO: Piotr Ciuchta / SXC
The Wall Street Journal takes up the question - How Much Is Your Dog’s Life Worth? - in litigation that is.
Most people consider their pet priceless. But in civil law, at least, pets are usually seen as property — akin to a toaster or TV set — worth only their market […]
How to Think Like a Lawyer
Silly me. I’ve been spending all this time in law school and here I could have just read this paper. ;-)
Should I be Bluebooking my Blawgraphy Cites?
Sigh…, Christine Hurt, Conglomerate, http://www.theconglomerate.org/2007/03/bluebook_pet_pe.html (March 13, 2007).
Checking a Cite, Checking it Twice, Gonna Find Out Who’s Naughty or Nice…
Just in case you were thinking that citation signals were just for show, Howard Bashman relates this cautionary tale -
The exchange began when Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr. remarked that Tribe’s merits brief did not appear to cite very much authority for a certain point. Tribe remarked that there were two older New York State […]
You know you spend too much time on the internet when…
You need advice on Tax Treatment in Second Life and World of Warcraft. I suppose the same is true when upon reading that article you conclude that (1) tax law might actually be sort of interesting after all and (2) wonder if that might not be an interesting niche practice.
State Guardianship: Prison or Protection?
The Houston Press has run a series of articles on the case of Margie Hill, whose experience illustrates the difficulties and dangers of the state’s efforts to grapple with the issue of a growing population of elderly poor. The government program designed to help elderly folks like Margie instead became her own worst nightmare.
Late last […]
No Asshole Rule Redux - When to Fire a Client
I blogged recently on No Asshole Rule, a question of whether firms should take proactive steps to eradicate unreasonable behavior in the work environment by forcing offending employees to change their ways or getting rid of them, even when they’re otherwise profitable performers.
On a related note, the WSJ Law Blog asks the question from a […]
Oral Argument, Quality of Performance in the Eye of the Beholder
Anyone who just went through moot court tryouts at the University of Houston Law Center this weekend would do well to keep the following in mind, regardless of the outcome. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun was known to grade the performance of oral advocates who appeared before the court -
A paper analyzing the effect of […]