Having gone through a lot of the same trainings, I can state there is a clear demarcation in good ones between romantic overtures (which are the type where you have to hear no before it crosses the legal line and is about the personal interaction of the people involved), and overt graphic sexual propositioning (which…

We actually could use a clear ruling on this. He’s used tweets to attack individuals and corporations in ways that would be actionable at law against any normal person - accusing the FBI and Barack Obama personally of wiretapping him, for example. If they are official conduct, there’s a much better argument that…

Thanks for adding the valid point about cross-deputization - tribal sovereignty is ridiculously complex (and as shown here sets up the potential for major cross-cultural trust gaps when it becomes a patchwork quilt). In your experience do native police actually go off reservation very often - my understanding was that…

In a lot of places, especially where tribal land is lightly populated/surrounded by non-native counties the local sheriffs are the stand in for a distinct tribal force by agreement with the tribe. It is sometimes a cost issue, sometimes logistics, sometimes just a long standing tradition no one has thought to…

Can be either - there are free standing law school within public systems that are more like completely independent bodies, and there are independent law schools not affiliated with any university. But most of them are affiliated with a broader campus, but with more autonomy than your typical division/school in terms…

The ABA accredits law schools, and while they make a stink about facilities, faculty, and funding, generally you only get in big trouble if your graduating classes bomb the bar exam repeatedly. Which just happened for most of the law schools in California, including some well respected public schools, as a direct…

I think the soldiers in the 54th Massachusetts might have been fighting to end slavery - but they might have been the only ones.

The South’s political leadership provoked the war over preserving slavery, but very few Northerners fought it for the explicit goal of ending slavery through the war itself. Lincoln didn’t see the end of slavery as tied to the end of the war until midway through. The overwhelming majority of Union leadership and…

I liked Guardians’ tone because (like Deadpool) the jokes fit the characters. Thor felt torn between trying to be serious but then ladling on jokes which didn’t really seem to serve a purpose of character development/insight. And while I love Goldblum and Hopkins, I sort of felt like there were too many powerful story…

In that case, the woman’s brother. But only because the guy couldn’t prove where the roots of the tree were.

Short version - yes, if you have a proper claim, but this guy didn’t.

I thought it had to be a joke - but Dave Mowrey confirmed it on Twitter, and he doesn’t seem to be a troll but an actual political consultant (but I don’t know Alabama politics to know how high up he is, or if he really is a GOP consultant or independent like he describes himself)

Paul is pretty small and skinny, too (5' 8" is the official listing, but I’m guessing he’s more like 5'6"). If this Bouchard is in the 6 foot range, and Paul had no idea he was coming, he could absolutely generate enough force to do significant damage.

As a counterpoint, one of the first cases students read about in a book widely used to teach legal reasoning is about a man pulling a woman off a ladder with so much force he ripped tendons in her arm.

Please, please, please actually serve when called folks. Don’t look for an excuse to get out of jury duty - it is one of the handful of opportunities that ordinary citizens get to have a direct say in the workings of the government/send a signal if the lawyers are out of line. If fewer people opted out, we might even…

I’m glad some of Boies’ shadier dealings are coming to light (again). He got in trouble a decade ago for subcontracting legal support services to companies run by his immediate family without telling clients, so I’m not that surprised to find out he was playing fast and loose with conflicts. He’s smart but he’s too…

His rep was built on one comment by a draft “guru” during bowl season and flinging it in the Mountain West. He got destroyed early this year against better teams when the spotlight was on - which could either be an indictment of him or the talent around him.

I hear that. The key difference in gated communities though is while the across the street neighbor is mad about a violation of a norm, the people in these communities have taken the time to commit their vision to paper and they can’t abide anyone violating their personal laws. So they feel extra entitled to act out…

While I wouldn’t either, it actually could be exactly what the assailant’s lawyer is saying. People in gated communities take their covenants and restrictions damn seriously, and I could see Mr. Quasi-Libertarian flexing his position to disregard them in a way meant to drive his neighbors nuts. Planting trees you…

I’m sorry. I think we are operating under fundamentally different definitions of both domestic violence and mental health problems (not illness- that wasn’t the term I used, but I understand the confusion as that was the term used by the rotting sentient pumpkin). Rather than talk past each other further, I will…