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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 [...]
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 [...]
Video: Why Courts are Not So Keen to Proceed Pro Se, Exhibit A
via the Rising Jurist. Michael Gaines apparently made the most of his opportunity to speak before being sentenced for spitting on two detention deputies. His assault was treated more seriously as Gaines is HIV positive. He was sentenced to 13 years.
Judge Pilshaw’s blog: Michael Gaines sentencing
KAKE-TV: Sedgwick County Courtroom Scene Of Outburst
Question and Answer with Lt. Col. Bircher, Army’s Electronic Warfare Futurist
Once I got over the fact that the United States Army not only has an Electronic Warfare division, but a “Proponent’s Futures Branch” within that division, it occurred to me that Lt. Col. John Bircher has perhaps one of the coolest jobs in the world. He responds to the denizens of slashdot in this post [...]
Duke’s Lawyers - To my first point, your honor… we suck
According to ESPN, when the Duke Blue Devil football team pulled out of the final three games of a four game contract, Louisville sued for breach and asked for $450,000 in damages. Duke’s lawyers successfully employed the seldom used “comparative sucking” defense - the Blue Devils’ performance on the football field was so disastrous (6-45) [...]
This is a test, this is only a test…
Apparently there is a problem with my RSS feed, which means, paradoxically, that some of you won’t get this message, but just in case, there you have it. Hopefully I will have it fixed soon. That is all.
Voir Dire - Ready for Anything and Anybody
Anne Reed at the Deliberations blog has a great post on being Ready For Anything in voir dire.
I thought of that guy when my “jury duty” search picked up this inquiry at one of the forums at Susan’s Place Transgender Resources, “a support resource for the transgender community”:
I have been summoned for jury duty [...]
Lawyer Nightmares, When Your Client Wants to Talk Who’s to Stop Them
As Scott Greenfield noted at Simple Justice in Rusty Hardin Wrongly Maligned For Roger Clemens, “Clemens knew the risks and chose to talk. There’s a limit to what a lawyer can do,” as in there’s a professional obligation to abide by the decisions of yoru client even if you know they’re making a monumentally [...]
Law Schools Consider the Laptop or in-class-internet Ban
Law schools have been wrestling with the following scenario for a while now -
The students sit in class, tapping away at their laptops as the boring old law professor mechanically plods through his lecture. Except one. Instead of hunching over a portable computer or a notebook, he’s playing solitaire with a deck of cards on [...]
New Website for Evening Law Student Association at UH Law
The Evening Law Student Association (ELSA) at the University of Houston Law Center has a new website.
I sat on the fence for a year after I took the LSAT, knowing I wanted to become a lawyer but that the type of law I wanted to practice (bleeding heart public interest-y stuff mostly) would never [...]