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Advocates of a 'plain meaning' approach to constitutional interpretation may have to conclude that Texas accidentally banned all marriage, as described in this McClatchy report, Texas' gay marriage ban may have banned all marriages
Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic ...
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US News rankings are biased in ways that hurt the U. Miami Law; here's one I would guess is biased in our favor: 2010 Super Lawyers U.S. Law School Rankings by Super Lawyers magazine. They say we are #20 in the country. Would it were so.
I suggest you split the difference between the 71st ...
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Jonathan Simon writes that California's protesters should Strike Against Prisons not Education .
(Note: Jon wrote this before the latest round of protests .)
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Had a very good time at the OII, had an especially fun seminar with some of the students.
Now I'm back, wading through huge stacks of things that piled up while I was away. No bloggy substance till I make a dent in the piles.
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I gave my Oxford-sponsored talk in London today; people said nice things after, so I guess it was OK. I had forgotten how much more US audiences indicate by noise and body language whether they like talks. A British audience is far more polite, but also far more reserved; words like ...
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The UK papers are all, ahem, a-Twitter, about this story: Scientist announces that she is call girl and blogger Belle de Jour .
It seems that one of the leading 'sex bloggers' in the UK took up the oldest profession in order to pay for her 'education habit'—he Ph.D.
Magnanti said ...
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Let me just say that I am never checking a bag through CDG again.
I had a 1 hour 40 minute connection, which became a little over one hour connection when the plane was late.
I made it. The bag did not. The very very nice and cheerful man at LHR said he was sure it would be on one of ...
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Because I'll Be Speaking in London on Nov. 17 , I need to be in London.
So I'm currently at MIA (memo to self: never, ever take the terminal D security line no mater how short it looks in order to get to terminal E — longest detour in airport history), “enjoying” free wifi ...
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The Houseguest points me to the customer reviews at Amazon for the Laptop Steering Wheel Desk: Electronics .
Many creative uses.
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It seems that students in our first year section (IJ) just have way too much time on their hands.
(ElfYourself is a product of JibJab.)
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I asked previously why no one was asking about an exit strategy for Afghanistan .
Well, it seems that someone important is asking that hard question .
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TMP runs the story of Hannity's apology as Cold Day in Hell .
Hannity claims it was an “inadvertent” error. (See Hannity = Dishonesty for background.)
Now on his program last night he mentioned that we had played some incorrect video on this program last week while talking ...
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Sean Hannity
I have a house guest who is probably one of the few teetotal geek folksinger freelance journalists in captivity.
The guest described to me a potentially useful feature of Tweetdeck that I didn't know existed (dividing people you follow into 'groups'), so I fired it up. (I don't use Twitter ...
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The most amazing thing about this story is that I think no one will care.
Jon Stewart catches out Fox propagandist Hannity in a stunning piece of dishonesty, one that could not possibly be accidental. In any normal democracy with a well-functioning press and political culture, this sort of ...
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Sean Hannity
Jon Stewart
Roger Ailes
From EFF 's Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena
Stuff like this is why I'm proud to be on EFF 's Advisory Board . (Although I can claim zero credit for EFF 's great work on this matter.)
Here's a part of EFF 's intro to the report linked above:
We at EFF, like the public at ...
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Joho the Blog, Line from a conf :
“There is a way to herd cats: Move their food.” — speaker at a closed conf
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James Grimmelmann has a nice piece up on Jotwell called Third Parties to the Rescue .
Here's how it starts: Michael Risch’s Virtual Third Parties , 25 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 416 (2009) tips the scales at a mere eleven pages—but it punches far above its weight ...
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Nice article in today's Herald about the UM law foreclosure fellows program, New lawyers help fight foreclosures .
I got quoted as saying,
“When the foreclosure happens, the number of important legal defenses that may be available are not always obvious to people without legal ...
