Well played. When I read this last night I had no idea who she was, and then spent half an hour watching youtube videos of her. If her goal was to get name recognition in the U.S. AND smack down Trump, it’s worked.

She totally stole that idea from Captain von Trapp.

Mine too.

Joel Grey was excellent as Arvin Clone.

You seem to be intentionally trying to misunderstand this case. It’s very simple contract law - the student and school both have to follow the procedures in place at the time. The student has successfully shown that the school did not follow the procedures, ergo they violated the contract. If he goes back you can bet…

Well, you’re lucky you don’t have to live with this kind of situation in your own life so you can remain ignorant of the kinds of places you send kids with severe disabilities *to*. Let me tell you, it is an emotional, bureaucratic, financial nightmare.

There is no reason to respond to that person with such condescension and dismissiveness. You made a claim that you know parents of kids with special needs and they all kept their kids at home. Diagonalstarfish laid out an example of a situation s/he has firsthand experience with (unlike you) of why that isn’t always…

Should have read the greys before responding below to much the same effect :)

It’s actually a component of the legal balancing test courts use when deciding whether to let parties proceed under a pseudonym. The court looks at whether the party trying to proceed pseudonymously is drawing media attention the case - the court frowns upon parties using a veil of anonymity to mudsling at the other…

Look like my cubanelles . . .

Wait, there is such a thing? Impart your laundry wizardry on the rest of us suffering parents!

I think the argument is trying to comply with the DOE’s overbroad interpretation of Title IX (which never went through proper legal channels) by conducting biased proceedings aimed at finding people responsible, rather than neutral hearings, is a Title IX violation. Which is true, if he can prove the school treated…

I agree that HRC is more hawkish than I would like. But that is not the only issue on which I vote for my candidate. Is there any argument you can make that Trump would be better for America domestically than HRC? Have you seen the GOP platform? I am terrified for immigrants, for women who need basic reproductive…

How does caring about them lead you to want to see a Trump presidency instead of a Clinton one? In what world do you see Trump as causing LESS damage to the world and its people? That’s the issue here - not whether Clinton has supported bad policies (obviously many people think she has), but whether it makes sense to…

I haven’t been following the case, but they appear to have argued that she got intoxicated on her own and consented to rough sex or something like that. Presumably they though they had some argument for that. As a criminal defense lawyer I would certainly not advise a client to go to trial unless I thought we had a…

If you plead guilty right away the case ends. Most people plead not guilty even if they eventually intend to take a plea deal in order to get a sense of the strength of the evidence against them and what kind of deal the DA might be willing to give. As for why they went to trial - “beyond a reasonable doubt” is a very…

To be clear I do not own the cookbook. I’m just still annoyed having seen it at my father-in-law’s house about 4 years ago.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook has two pages (including a large picture) devoted to a recipe for “One Perfect Roast Sweet Potato.” The recipe consists of: Preheat oven. Insert single sweet potato. Remove 45 minutes later.

I’ve been shocked at what the government lawyers (DAs, CPS lawyers, etc.) around me seem to think is court-appropriate. Mustard yellow tights? Check. Cropped pants with a bright colored blazer? Check. I would never think to go to court in anything other than a full suit. On non-court days though, my little firm is…

The statute of limitations for filing at the EEOC is very short, unfortunately - 180 days to about 30o days, depending on what state you’re in. And while it’s true you can do it without a lawyer, as an employment lawyer I can say that you may do better with some professional help in crafting your complaint etc. Anyway…