Arbitration has moved into its new home.
After years on the Fifth Floor of the historic Allegheny County Court House, the Arbitration division is finally moving in with the rest of the Civil Division.
“Yes I Believe in the First Amendment, but . . .”
ts very interesting to listen to the thinking processes of talk show hosts and callers as they discuss the reasons why, in their view, the proposed “Cordoba Mosque” should not be permitted to be built in the same neighborhood as Ground Zero. The gist is that jihadist terrorists are laughing at us or having one over on us. “Yes, I believe in the First Amendment, but …”, they begin.
August Rants.
Two New Yorkers, one named Charlie and the other Steve, entertained the country (and perhaps much of the world) today. Everybody loved it. “Hit Me With Your Best Shot!” (Charlie) became the sound bite of the day. The magnificent movie-like exit, down the emergency chute with two beers, (Steve)became the universal daydream.
Consol Energy Center — a Hat Trick!
With the opening of the Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh now has three state of the art major league sports venues. And then there’s the Petersen Event Center at Pitt and Palumbo Center at Duquesne. Not bad for a town where none of them existed not too many years ago.
WikiLeaks Strikes. NYT Reports.
No. 486
The internet has come to be the place where news breaks without warning, causing big problems for the main line media. There are those who have no compunction about releasing doctored or highly edited audio and video, misleading but with the look and feel of truth. We had an example of this earlier this [...]
Name Something Illegal In Every Nation On Earth,That Every Nation Does.
No. 481
Espionage.
Talk about hypocrisy! Its a capital offense, yet the sentence is commuted regularly when we exchange our spies for their spies.
If it threatens the survival of our society, and if we wanted to actually deter spying, why would we ever let one go free?
CLT
A Life Well Lived: Lisa Styles, mother, lawyer and far too young.
Mt. Lebanon resident and lawyer Bill Labovitz posted an article on the vigil conducted at the fatal intersection last night as well as her obituary on Twitter. They tell a story that brings the full force of this calamity down upon us. They make me feel angry. And yet, when I think that my own daughter, married and living in another city, is only a little younger than Lisa, it makes me feel blessed and grateful for what I have. We must savor and treasure the gifts we have while we have them. The fact that the people we love can be snatched away in a moment is what makes having them with us so precious.
BETTER THAN PERFECT
No. 452
By now, every American has heard the fascinating story. Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga pitches a perfect game, except for a call at first base with two out in the bottom of the ninth, which the replays show was clearly wrong and the umpire himself emphatically admits it immediately. Then, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig [...]
You Can Bet Your BP.
The oil leak in the Gulf is already reached catastrophic and it is gradually dawning on the world that we do not know its potential limits. The pool of oil that is now pluming into the oceans of the world (they are all connected, you know) is incredibly large. Some estimate it is 5,000 barrels per day.
EXCUSE ME, EVERYBODY, BUT A SUSPECT IS STILL JUST A SUSPECT: LIMITING MIRANDA.
I will bet the first person to contact me with a contrary comment, a month of (modestly priced) lunches that any legislation seeking to permit a citizen to be convicted on a confession deliberately obtained without a Miranda warning will not make it past the United States Supreme Court, regardless of the ideological composition of the Court at the time.
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