Archive for April, 2008
Rick Casey is going away for a long, long time
Rick Casey’s column - Who I’ll hire if I’m caught - in today’s Houston Chronicle caught my eye for this rather stultifying comment - I figure if she can convict an innocent man, she can keep me out of trouble.
More on the Proposed Public Defender Office in Harris County, Texas
Interested parties are swallowing this news with a healthy dose of skepticism, but the County Commissioners Court took a step closer to the creation of a Public Defender Office in Harris County by approving the commission of a study on the financial impact of establishing a PD office. The report is expected in September.
Houston Chronicle, [...]
Be True to what You Said on Paper, Remembering Martin Luther King
At Concurring Opinions, Alice Ristroph’s Early Morning, April 4 turned me on to the full text of Martin Luther King’s I See The Promised Land. If you’ve never read it in it’s entirety, take a moment - it’s worth your while.
This portion in particular jumped out at me -
All we say to America is, “Be [...]
New Profs at University of Houston Law
The Legal Theory Blog has posted its 2008 Entry Level Hiring Report: Version 4.0. Worth noting in the U. Houston community are three new hires
Brigham Daniels, JD 2003 Stanford University, PhD expected 2009 Environmental Policy Duke, MPA 2000 Public Administration University of Utah, Lecturing Fellow Duke
Gavin Clarkson, JD 2002 Harvard University, DBA 2004 Business Harvard [...]
The Brothers Larry - Lawyers (hilarious lawyer ad)
Video: The Brothers Larry - Lawyers
Sadly, it’s getting harder to know if this is a parody (it is) with some of the other lawyer ads out there.
Carl Icahn reminisces about Tort King Lawyer Joe Jamail, Texaco-Pennzoil case
Via Houston’s Clear Thinkers, “Corporate Raider Carl Icahn caught on video at Caroline’s Comedy Club in Manhattan talking about the Texaco/Getty Oil Lawsuit.” Icahn’s Joe Jamail impression is worth the price of admission.
Involuntary Public Intoxication, Good Facts Make Funny Law
Kevin Underhill’s Lowering the Bar brought this gem of a case in Court of Appeal Upholds Right to Private Drunkenness.
Like my former favorite involuntary intoxication case, Martin v. State, 31 Ala.App. 334, 17 So.2d 427 (1944), the case of In re R.K. involves officers of the law in a podunk town that can’t help but [...]
Texas Man Successfully Asserts Necessity Defense in Medical Marijuana Possession Case
From Reason Magazine, via Boing Boing, comes the interesting news that…
Tim Stevens, a 53-year-old Amarillo man who smokes marijuana to relieve the cyclical vomiting syndrome associated with HIV infection, used a necessity defense to win an acquittal on a possession charge.
A little Ragazzo-esque voice in Bennett’s head demands “What’s your authority for that?” to [...]
One Injunction Away from Armageddon
Oh to be a clerk on this court, for this case - a federal court in Hawaii is tasked with considering the following claim:
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho contend that scientists at the European Center for Nuclear Research, or CERN, have played down the chances that the collider could produce, among other horrors, a [...]