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A New Justice Blog is Born
Corrente —
Say Hello to Overruled. I'm expecting some quality stuff. Take a look at the "Why I blog" post:
Why I Blog
Debbie Dantz worked at an Applebees, a job she desperately needed to take care of her two teenage daughters and a terminally ill father. It was not a high paying job, but because Dantz couldn't afford a car or even a bed to sleep on, she needed work within walking distance of her home and the Applebees fit the bill.
So when Dantz' boss made a pass at her, she didn't quit because she needed the money. She stuck with the job as her manager's ...
New Law Blog: 'Overrulled'
Discourse.net —
Say hello to Overruled, which looks to be a feisty progressive law blog.
New Law Blog: 'Overruled'
Discourse.net —
Say hello to Overruled, which looks to be a feisty progressive law blog.
Ian Millhiser: By Trap or By Trick: How Corporations Break the Law and Get Away With It
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Note: A version of this post appeared at my personal blog, Overruled.
Debbie Dantz worked at an Applebees, a job she desperately needed to take care of her two teenage daughters and a terminally ill father. It was not a high paying job, but because Dantz couldn't afford a car or even a bed to sleep on, she needed work within walking distance of her home and the Applebees fit the bill.
So when Dantz' boss made a pass at her, she didn't quit because she needed the money. She stuck with the job as her ...
Introducing Overruled, a great online resource for timely legal commentary
DownWithTyranny! —
... you may have noticed, our friend Jon Dodson has cut back his writing for us on legal matters, in order to devote fuller attention to his bulging legal caseload. One of these days we'll get around to nudging him to see if we can't shake an occasional piece out. Meanwhile there's an excellent new source of current legal comment, now that our distinguished colleague Ian, a frequent commenter on legal affairs on HuffPost and elsewherem has taken the plunge and started his own blog, Overruled. ...
Ian Millhiser: Clarence Thomas' America
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
(Cross posted at Overruled.)
Justice Thomas is an odd duck. Unlike the four other conservative members of the Supreme Court, Thomas makes no bones about his desire to repeal the New Deal and the Civil Rights Era and return America to the utopian days of the Hoover Administration:
In a series of decisions beginning with U.S. v. Lopez, Justice Thomas would have restricted Congress' power to enact economic regulation to a point unheard of since the Great Depression. It's difficult to count the laws which would cease to exist under Thomas' ...
Ian Millhiser: Inhofe: Obama's Judicial Nominee is a Secret Muslim
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Noted global warming denier James Inhofe, who once insisted that the United States base its foreign policy on the book of Genesis, announced on the Senate floor yesterday that he will filibuster the nomination of Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit. Judge Hamilton, a highly regarded district judge whose nomination received enthusiastic support from Hamilton's homestate Republican Senator Richard Lugar, is President Obama's first nominee to the federal bench.
Inhofe says he will filibuster Judge Hamilton because Hamilton's enforcement of the Establishment Clause offends Inhofe's ...
Arbitration Contracts and Business Class Citizenship
Open Left - Front Page —
"Without access to lawyers, the law doesn't apply to you." - Ian Millhiser
I've flown business class a couple times, it was nice.
You get to board the plane early, have a comfortable seat, enjoy free drinks. Nice. And it's fine, they pay extra for that. The airlines make a reasonable calculation about how much they're owed for providing those services and they get compensated.
Yet when it comes to dealing with the rest of society, their workers, customers and government, business interests always want to dispute the bill for services rendered. ...
