Archive for October, 2008
Bloggers as Newsmen - Expanding the Testimonial Privilege
Should bloggers have the same testimonial privilege as the newspaper people? Um, yes please…? In any event, an interesting Note from Boston University Law Review:
This Note examines the complexities of the reporter’s privilege and how it has been interpreted in the context of advancing technology. Part I examines the history of the debate behind the [...]
Curious Effect of Filing Motion Five Minutes Late on Opposing Counsel and Judge
The following is from this honest to goodness actual order from Western District of Wisconsin in Hyperphase Technologies v. Microsoft.
True, this court did enter an order on June 20, 2003 ordering the parties not to flyspeck each other, but how could such an order apply to a motion filed almost five minutes late? Microsoft’s temerity [...]
2008 James Hippard Sr. Open Mock Trial Competition
I choked on my coffee when I saw this photo of these jokers on the law school’s home page yesterday. Although it’s a bit difficult to write this with a straight face, congratulations are due some of my old section-mates, Chris Domingo and Rob Jackson, for winning the 2008 James Hippard Sr. Open Mock Trial [...]
The Gen-Y Albatross
Once a year, just before the OCI season heats up, the 2Ls at UHLC are herded into a classroom, hosed off and made presentable and treated to a presentation by Mary Crane. Mary Crane believes we are part of the "T-Ball Generation"; among other things this means we:
wear questionable attire into the office
don’t care [...]
The Problem of Discovery
Martha Neil with the ABA Journal has a pair of articles up on discovery, OK, Discovery’s a Problem, But What Can Be Done About It? and Litigation Too Costly, E-Discovery a ‘Morass,’ Trial Lawyers Say, prompted by an interim report released by the American College of Trial Lawyers: ACTL & IAALS PUBLISH INTERIM REPORT ON [...]
ESPN360 Brings College Football to the Huddled Masses
WHEREAS the Law Review office is located in a dark and inhospitable cave deep in the bowels of the Law Center where neither natural light nor cellphone coverage can penetrate, WHEREAS it is now the heart of college football season, WHEREAS it is now apparently bizarro world in football season where teams like Ole Miss [...]