If you listen, he clearly says he’s auctioning her phone off.

5 more and you’ll have Kinkos.

Ah.  You beat me to it.

It’s more complicated than that. Technically, under Section 1983 (that’s the statute where you an sue the government for depriving you of a Constitutional right), there is no theory of “respondeat superior” liability. “Respondeat superior” is the legal theory under which an employer is liable for the unlawful…

So suits under 42 USC Sec. 1983 have differing standards depending on which rights are alleged to have been infringed. For example, if you’re claiming that the state violated your rights under the 4th Amendment, you have to show that you were subjected to a search or seizure that was “objectively unreasonable.” This…

Oooh! It’s like the plural noun thing.

You’re good people. I’d buy you a beer if I could.

Sadly, Gov. Scott probably has the benefit of sovereign immunity.

So here’s the hard truth. If you’re running a business, you’ve got to take reasonable steps to prevent foreseeable harm to others. That’s the basic duty imposed by the common law.

That’s 20:30 GMT.  Prime drinking time.

That would depend on whether the State of Texas’ definition of terrorism applies, and whether he was also charged under Federal law.

It doesn’t appear that he was tried and convicted yet.  Bail is what lets you get out of jail pending your trial.

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Half-life 3 confi—...

Shhh. You’ll give away my secret.

Not all lawsuits are about wealth transfers (though those beat the hell out of six-guns at high noon as a dispute resolution device).

It’s unconstitutionally vague. If the regulation is so vague as to be effectively meaningless, it violates the constitution. I edited a law review article about it once.

The dudes who drive their pickup trucks with tattered and dirty flags make me crazy. I always want to run them off the road and then ask them if I can burn their flags for them.

Nah. This young man violated one of the oldest criminal laws in this country, though it’s not listed in any statute book. And you won’t find it in a hornbook or see it on a syllabus in a criminal law class.