The Power of Hustle.

No.1,457 Last evening in Detroit, in the longest, highest scoring opening day game in Pirate history, Gregory Polanco hit a three run homer in the thirteenth inning to break the 10-10 tie and win the game. During Spring Training, the Pirate broadcasters observed that Polanco, who had a disappointing last season, was really hustling. Good. […]

Seattle Ordinance Requiring Acceptance of First Qualified Tenant Struck Down By Court

No. 1,456 A judge in Seattle struck down the city ordinance requiring a landlord to accept the first qualified tenant, involving a legal theory known as the “implicit bias rule.” The court recognized that dealings between a landlord and tenant involve a long-term contractual relationship. A variety of non-discriminatory factors may enter into the decision-making […]

Life and work in the iworld, its a Double-brainer.

No. 1,455 Distractions coming from many directions are keeping us from concentrating while we work. We give immediate attention to email. It takes too much will power to ignore an incoming cell phone call. After all, it might actually be more important (or interesting) than the task before you. Back in the old days, […]

Judicial Impeachment

No. 1,454 There’s an interesting post on the subject of judicial impeachment in the Brennan Center for Justice Blog. Impeachment of judges is rare. Although it is not impossible to impeach a judge for his/her rulings, this has not been the practice. A group of members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly are seeking to impeach four […]

Writing for lawyers and everybody else.

No. 1,453 I read about a software package that is supposed to help lawyers improve their writing. Don’t ask me to name names. If you’re curious, you can find it yourself. Essentially, it marks up your briefs or anything else you give it. Lawyers of my generation are almost all abysmal writers. There are exceptions, […]

Trivial Pursuit

No. 1,452 We went to a trivial pursuit game tonight. Great fun. Here’s a few facts you might not know – The most recent Country formed in the World is South Sudan. – The father of modern linguistics is Noam Chomsky of MIT – U S Steel Corporation was founded in 1901 – Saffron […]

No Garbage Left Behind.

No. 1,451 The garbage men failed to pick up my garbage yesterday. I came home in the afternoon and it was still on the curb. Twenty-four hours later it is still there and I am feeling angry. Was it really an oversight. Or was it a rebuff? Maybe it was too far from the curb. […]

FEARLESS!

No. 1,450 We are constantly constrained by fear. What do we fear? Just about everything. The unknown. Known perils. Death. Injury. Embarrassment. Failure. Schoolyard bullies. I could keep going. Fear is physical. We feel it in our gut. We feel it with a dry mouth and a beating heart. Sometimes our hands shake and our […]

Jump Like a Fish, Jump Like a Porpoise, all Join Hands and Habeas Corpus!

No. 1,449 The Great Writ is far outside my practice area . Based upon the excellent article in the ACS blog which is linked here, its outside everybody’s practice area. The author, who is referred to as Judge, doesn’t pull any punches, even when criticizing the United States Supreme Court, which she does throughout. I presented […]

Snow Day on the Highway.

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