Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Civil Procedure, Deposition on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
You may remember the Best Deposition Ever: defendant Aaron Wider cursing up a storm at opposing counsel at a deposition in GMAC Bank v. HTFC Corp. Today over at Concurring Opinions you can see a video of parts of the deposition. The bad words are bleeped out, but I’d still recommend headphones if you’re in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
While I have heard that there may be a move to amend the California Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, I am excited to announce that some counties will begin handing out marriage licenses to homosexual couples as early as June 14.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 6th Circuit, bad lawyer, LRW, Roger Phipps on May 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I don’t think this was posted here yet, and although it came out about a month ago, its too good not to post.
The attorney was arguing his case before the Sixth Circuit, trying to have his client’s decision affirmed in an employment discrimination case. When the panel released its decision, it included this in the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged GW alum in the news, Justice Kathryn Werdegar, In re Marriages, California Supreme Court on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Who? Associate Justice Kathryn M. Werdegar of the California Supreme Court. Justice Werdegar voted with the majority yesterday in the case of In re Marriages, the ’same-sex’ marriage case. She is also an alum of our fair school. According to her bio, she began law school at UC Berkeley but then transfered to GW, where [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged law faculty on May 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
At the beginning of the Spring semester, Prof. Solove, along with Prof. Lee, Prof. Tuttle, and Prof. Goldfarb, had an open information session for GW students and practitioners who are considering academia. It was really a great presentation, giving lots of nuggets of advice and information on the centralized hiring process, how to prepare to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2008 | 5 Comments »
You can read the opinions for yourself - all 172 pages - here. Commentary at ATL, Volokh, WSJ, or just about anywhere you turn. Basically, the California Supreme Court has held that the state’s statutory provisions limiting marriage to heterosexual couples are unconstitutional. Good decision? Bad? Activist? Please discuss.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
The Washington Post has an interesting article today on U.S. legal work booming in India. Apparently, this new outsourcing industry is “growing 60 percent annually.” The impetus for this growth has been e-discovery laws and the massive volumes of data that need to be reviewed for litigation. Indian lawyers are trained in a common-law system, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FLDS, Paulville, Ron Paul on May 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Well, it didn’t take long. A group of dedicated Ron Paul supporters, hardcore Libertarians, have banded together to form their own gated community. From the front page of the website, “The goal…is to establish gated communities containing 100% Ron Paul supporters and or people that live by the ideals of freedom and liberty.”
The group has [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Victoria Beckham is reportedly suing Rock & Republic - the manufacturers of her line of high-end jeans - for £50 million. This is all rumor for now, as the complaint hasn’t been served on R&R yet. But the Daily Mail reports that Mrs. Beckham is claiming the damages because her jeans were more profitable than [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hawaii on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently, a group of native Hawaiians, called the Hawaiian Kingdon Government, took over the historic Hawaiian monarch’s palace (CNN story) calling for a return to the constitutional monarchy that existed before the United States annexed the islands as a Territory in 1893 (later to become a state in 1959). The end of the CNN story [...]
