Per Bloomberg, two officials did take the 5th at a meeting with a single committee member and staff. But they did so because of how Nunes has acted and fear of retaliation - apparently the company had complied with other requests and has signaled they’d do so in the future if Nunes stopped acting unilaterally.

Being an American litigator (especically criminal cases, but civil is a pain too) doesn’t translate very well across borders. That’s where my head went - your degree often won’t even qualify you to try and get licensed/you have to go back to school, you can’t really call on your business network for work, stuff like…

Morse applies within the k-12 environment, on the idea that speech that contravenes school policy or causes a disruption can be barred. Public universities are generally treated more like public forums outside of the immediate classroom setting as students are supposed to be adults and not as in need of…

I’m pretty sure that’s an established Neo-Nazi symbol - maybe for the National Front (I hate that I know this).

My law school did anonymous grading back in the 90s to try and de-emphasize how cut-throat we were. Don’t know if it helped bias but hopefully it limited the opportunities of the creepy perv (who later became a dean) who always favored the blonde women from being able to trade “extra credit” for sexual favors.

And if you look who the ad plays with, it’s the people with the least interaction with anything they could conceivably confuse with MS13 - rural white voters in west/southwest Virginia who are convinced they are next in line for the big scary invasion.

Here’s the thing, though - they had a good line and almost nothing else a few years ago. In 2014 they had an All-Pro Center in Mack, a Hall of Fame LT in Joe Thomas, and a serviceable pro at RG in Schwartz. That and a couple of FA pickups who aren’t awful should be enough to be competitive if you have even marginal…

He seems pretty content directing - although I bet his material on set is filthy.

Maybe, but if a statement is easily traceable to a single person the lack of a particular name wouldn’t block a defamation claim - the lawyer would allege that from context people would know who was referred to (as the OP thought they had done here).

Any number of things, including the simple fact that it’s her story and she damn well gets to tell it how she wants to and in the way she’s comfortable.

Thing is though that pretty much everywhere in the Asia folks - Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Muslims and every other religion or non-religion - also have a right/left division of labor for “clean” and “unclean” tasks like eating (right) and wiping (left). So his test basically amounts to insulting a huge chunk of the…

We actually have Federal laws that are based on the working conditions in factories, that do so by banning clothes (or products) that are made in unacceptable environments and fining violators. Democrats have historically sought to add such conditions to trade deals, too. As a nation, though, we lack the political…

They can, but doing so carries the risk of the judge not believing them and/or finding they did it as spoilation of the evidence and punishing Trump and the lawyers in a variety of ways. If you make a claim of no e-mails for a subject that should have obviously been discussed, for example, these days your going to get…

As mentioned Clinton v Jones made it pretty clear that if the suit is for conduct before coming into office (or really theoretically anything unofficial although after Nixon v Fitzgerald we don’t actually know exactly where that line is once the person is sworn in) it is fair game and you don’t get to claim it would…

Gah, shitty answer. I wonder if she was trying to make a point about hidden dimensions of diversity - stuff like poverty/upbringing, religious belief, mental illness, developmental disability, etc. Because those should be things companies are working on, too, and Microsoft has been patting itself on the back for…

There doesn’t have to be a smoking gun like an actual meeting or conference call to have an “implied agreement” about a player. You can - and I assume his counsel will - point to various public statements and how similar they are, and the consistency of the pattern of behavior as evidence that there’s an agreement not…

His mom is a former gymnastics coach at UW, and apparently her response after the game was “why didn’t you do a double?”

This idea of what sexual assault “is” has such deep roots that, up into the 70s and 80s many states had rape laws that required proving a) the use of force and b) physical resistance by the victim - which got interpreted a lot of times as any woman who chose not to fight back must have consented (or at least sent…

If you are in fact (moderately) rich, than you demonstrably have met all your basic needs - or you would not have a surplus of monetary resources. That effort was aided by the society you live in and the complete accident of your life story. That society now requests that you, for the ongoing benefits you have taken…

If you are making 250k a year, as a single earner, you are absolutely in the top echelon of American income. Per the below, the cut off to be in the 95th percentile (top 5 percent) is 206k. So you are right they aren’t the 1% - they are the 3%. Doesn’t mean they can’t and shouldn’t pay more.