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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Pitt Law Selects New Dean

No. 1,447 The University of Pittsburgh announced yesterday that it had selected Amy J Wildermuth of the University of Utah to be its new Dean, commencing July 1. The new Dean is both a law professor and a high-ranking administrative officer at Utah, being that University’s first chief sustainability officer. Prior to joining the law […]

What duty does a jay-walker have in the age of driverless vehicles?

So who is negligent here? Â The engineers who designed the driverless system, the back-up driver, or the jay-walker? Or is it some combination of these?

If everyone is unhappy is the court dispensing justice?

No. 1,445 Setting the thermostat at 72º is not a bad decision. There are others to consider beside these two outliers, after all. There is no win-win here. But there is a lose-lose. Or is there? One can wear two sweaters, while the other can set up a small fan.

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