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Court hearing dates change all the time, especially in immigration court. As people have said above, it's very common to have these granted for any number of reasons, much more trivial than needing to care for a six week old infant. Also, the opposing ICE attorney consented! When the opposing counsel consents,…

True story: when my mom was pregnant with my older sister she had a trial scheduled for her due date. When she asked the judge to move it he denied the request, saying, "Cross your legs, sweetheart."

I don't think it's totally unreasonable to be nervous about handing your weeks-old baby to a babysitter you had to find within a week, though.

I was at a CMC recently getting a trial date, and opposing counsel announced that she just found out she is pregnant and will not be ready for trial until after maternity leave. The judge, a notorious jerk, made SUCH a big deal about it. Also, I too made the mistake of reading the comments on ATL. Super gross.

Speaking as a female lawyer of reproductive age: fuck this judge. My coworker is set to give birth any day now, and she has had absolutely no problem getting things continued. I have worked with many attorneys who were pregnant or new parents, and no judge has ever side-eyed them for wanting a continuance based on…

I have threatened to do this with jury service. I was a single mom, working full time and had no-one to pick up my child after school. I told them I could not afford to pay someone and they still made me come. I told them I would bring my child, and they told me they would arrest me and put my child in social…

Because judges always, especially if the opposing party has no issue, grant leaves and extensions. Always. If asking for a leave was a huge thing that no one ever did, I might have a bit less sympathy here, but it's not. Extensions are granted as a matter of course, and the fact that this judge didn't is wrong (if not…

The poor ones aren't the ones complaining, though! The ones complaining are the ones who are rich, and often even have help - sitters, nannies, au pairs, part-time preschools, and so on. The poor ones are too busy busting their asses to have time to whine online.

From what I've read, they were willing to forgive almost everything. He apparently contracted HIV while a pastor there, he mishandled the money, even admittedly had sex in the church...What the church is not cool with is putting congregants at risk for AIDS (while having church sex). I am a pastor, and I can safely…

What could possibly be *more* manly than injecting [literally] the most poisonous substance known to mankind INTO YOUR FACE? Except, maybe, doing the above whilst skydiving. Strapped to a shark.

I think there's something to that. Even in college, my dorm with fellow girls was fucking IMMACULATE. We had a rotating cleaning schedule. Our neighbors, who were boys? Never cleaned their dorm the entire year. I always wondered why. It wasn't like my mother was yelling at me to clean, it wasn't like I was trying to…

I honestly think it's mostly that men aren't raised to have an internal, never-ending shame if their house isn't Martha Stewart levels of clean and perfect like women are. It's not that they can't, or won't clean - it's that they honestly don't have that same societal pressure there driving them to do it.*

Make Curie would not have stood for this shit. The women absorbed so much radiation, she was a real-life superhero.

I wasn't there, but my mother told me about a prank my uncles played on her and my dad during their wedding. They went to their appartment during the reception and sort of messed it up, but in a sweet way... Balloons, confetti, that kind of stuff. It was all pretty innocent but when my dad saw it he just freaked out…

So many things to tell..I will try to sum it up but it is going to get long and weird.

When the music ended at the close of our reception, which was a fabulous time, my very drunk stepfather decided that the gay wedding guest my equally drunk mother had been mauling on the dance floor throughout the night should be the target of his Italian ire (how dare anyone go near his woman!!!). So he found him in…

I would just like to throw out some should-be-obvious wisdom out there that I learned this year: