The Settlement

Discovery Amusement

Spent the evening amusing myself making up nonsensical discovery responses. In the morning I'll get an associate to sign them.
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Trending

Trending. I'm thinking of expanding to a Big Law firm and then downsizing to where I am now.
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Recovering Expenses

Opening Statements At Mediation

Prickman's Disappointing Fourth

Damn. I even had my investigator shoot Roman candles at people and no one got injured. So much for Fourth lawsuits for me. Prickman Re-Tweet

In-Debt Law Grad Denied License

Law grad, in debt $400,000 on students loans, denied licensing by appellate judges. Could he be ripe for a government bailout so he can practice law? How about he gets bailed out and goes to work as an in-house counsel at Fiat-Chrysler? NYT story.

Al Franken Decade

Looks like it's been shrinking for years. Early Al

Franken's Fro Missing

Al Franken's fro has gone missing. Before After

Cross-Judging

White Firefighters Discrimination Case

In Ricce v. DeStefano, the supreme court has ruled that the city of New Haven discriminated against white firefighters (including one Hispanic) by throwing out a test given in order to obtain promotions which no black firefigher passed. The 5-4 majority concluded that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act was violated. The court was split along familiar lines with Kennedy aligning with conservative justices and authoring the opinion. NYT story and link to case.

I was a college student when the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 and believe that it was necessary for the country at that time. However, it's an ironic -- if not a predictable course -- to see the Civil Rights Act successfully used by whites. Kurt Vonneguts's play, "Harrison Bergeron," just came into my thoughts. In it, equality was truly achieved by all Americans with the 211, 212 and 213 amendments. Talented dancers wear weights in the play to make them as clumsy as I am.

The Michael Jackson Estate