Not that there wasn’t sufficient motivation already, but adds an interesting wrinkle to Caps-Isles.

If you think one oblique nod to financial incentives is remotely responsive to my point, you’ve quite obviously missed it.

10,000 words and not a one even entertaining the possibility that Janay Rice has actually forgiven her husband and wants to facilitate his return to football, if only to improve their material position in life?

One gets the impression that Drew doesn’t actually care much for sports, given the correlation between how highly-ranked a playoff is and how little play it actually features.

Assuming something similar to the Federal Rules of Evidence applies, the conviction cannot be admitted for the purpose of demonstrating that Hernandez has a propensity for murderous violence, except to rebut an assertion by Hernandez that he has no such propensity (which is why we won’t make such an assertion, if he’s…

Let’s not forget to point out that Rolling Stone is bad for idolizing this fuckwit. Easy to lose track of that in the morass of other shit they’re swimming in at the moment.

Reading comprehension is clearly not your strong suit. FRE 407 prohibits admission of subsequent remedial measures as evidence of, e.g., negligence. However, it explicitly permits admission of that same evidence for some other purpose, such as demonstrating control or the feasibility of preventive measures; admitting…

Aaahahahahahaa who gave you the impression Elie Mystal was an actual lawyer?

And here I thought you were just mocking me.

And here I thought you were mocking me.

Yes, but a half-competent lawyer will still be able to get that evidence in front of a jury for some other purpose (such as proof that the facility was contaminated), and once it’s in the Bucs are in trouble.

It was an (apparently failed) attempt at a play on words. Res Ipsa Loquitur is a legal doctrine that essentially assumes causation in limited circumstances.

This is, frankly, silly. If fitness is that important to the job, there's no reason to ease up on the requirements for older agents.

Two seconds on Wikipedia reveals he lives in Wichita. Seems a good enough reason to me.

Best player on a bubble team, and the victim didn't sustain a serious injury?

I should stress–and this point was totally lost in the Indiana debate–that RFRA does not provide immunity. It only allows a defendant to raise a defense, which a finder of fact must consider, like any other defense that can be raised under Title VII or the ADA. RFRA is *not* a blank check to discriminate.

That's a distinction without a difference—different entities do not receive different degrees of protection under RFRA. Even DOJ's position in the Hobby Lobby decision was that it is basically an on/off switch.

Actually, DOJ has in the past taken the position that the Federal RFRA applies to disputes between private parties. Source

This is like saying that laws of self-defense allow people to choose to commit murder just for the hell of it.

. . . which would allow businesses to refuse service to LGBT customers.