Dec

26

Wisconsin Supreme Court Accepts Three More Cases

Posted by: | December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently voted to accept review in three more cases, one criminal case and two civil ones. The criminal case is State v. Popke, 2008AP446-CR. From the court’s website, “A decision by the Supreme Court could clarify if a momentary crossing of the center line creates probable cause to believe that a [...]

Dec

24

Wal-Mart Settles; Secunda in Wall Street Journal

Posted by: | December 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Our own Paul Secunda was quoted in the Wall Street Journal today on Wal-Mart’s huge settlement of wage claims in sixty-three lawsuits.  Here is a taste: Wal-Mart Stores Inc. agreed Tuesday to pay up to $640 million to settle 63 suits alleging it routinely underpaid employees around the country, ending years of embarrassing legal battles [...]

Dec

23

Time for a Baseball Salary Cap?

Posted by: | December 23, 2008 | 15 Comments

Today, sources say that the New York Yankees signed free agent first baseman Mark Teixeira to a whopping eight-year contract totaling $180 million.  Teixeira is arguably the best non-pitcher free agent on the market (one could make an argument for Manny Ramirez, but it seems the market has focused more on Teixeira first).  This signing [...]

Dec

23

OKCU Law Under Fire for Alleged Gender Discrimination and Harassment

Posted by: | December 23, 2008 | 4 Comments

Not exactly the place you would expect to see issues of alleged gender discrimination and harassment in the workplace, but, of course, no employer is immune. From NewsOK from earlier this week: Four Oklahoma City University law professors submitted a confidential memo to the OCU attorney in October 2007 detailing alleged discrimination and harassment incidents. [...]

Dec

22

Seventh Circuit Week in Review, Part II: Attempted Enticement of a Minor

Posted by: | December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment

As I mentioned in the first installment of “Week in Review,” the Seventh Circuit decided two cases this past week arising from convictions for attempted enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.  As a general matter, one is not guilty of a criminal attempt unless one takes a “substantial step” towards the completion of the [...]

Dec

22

For the Dog People Among Us

Posted by: | December 22, 2008 | 3 Comments

There are a number of dog people on the faculty here and within the law school community. Some know that Karen and I recently adopted a new Golden Retriever puppy and have requested photos. I am not about to turn this blog into my refrigerator door, but I can do anything I want on my personal [...]

Dec

21

Is “Inure” Really a Magic Word?

Posted by: | December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

Over at the Language Log there is an interesting post about the word “inure.”  The writer Roger Shuy is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, at Georgetown.  He now works as a linguistics expert, often, it seems, with lawyers.   In the post he first describes the ordinary use of the word “inure,” giving an example from a Newsweek [...]

Dec

21

Iranian Police Raid and Close Offices of Human Rights Centre Led by Shirin Ebadi

Posted by: | December 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2003, is scheduled to be the keynote speaker for Mission Week here in February.  The story of her life is an inspiring one. She was the first woman to serve as a judge in Iran, but was removed from her post after the Iranian revolution in 1979, [...]

Dec

21

Seventh Circuit Week in Review, Part I: Search & Seizure, Interrogation, and Sentencing

Posted by: | December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The Seventh Circuit had a busy week, with seven new opinions in criminal cases.  Two dealt with the same question of what constitutes a criminal attempt to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.  I’ll discuss those two opinions in a separate post.  The remaining five, considered below, addressed a diverse range of issues relating [...]

Dec

20

Must Lawyers Disclose Their Role as Ghostwriter?

Posted by: | December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Professor Michael W. Loudenslager of Appalachian School of Law has ventured into the thorny thicket of affirmative duties to disclose in his provocative article, Giving Up the Ghost: A Proposal for Dealing With Attorney “Ghostwriting” of Pro Se Litigants’ Court Documents Through Explicit Rules Requiring Disclosure and Allowing Limited Appearances for Such Attorneys, 92 Marq. L. [...]

Dec

20

The Limitations of “Rot”

Posted by: | December 20, 2008 | 3 Comments

I was going to do this as a comment to Jessica’s post on Frank Pasquale’s post on the rot in America’s financial system, but it got a bit long, so I decided to make it a post. Jessica cites to a post on Concurring Opinions which relies, to some extent, on a comment in response [...]

Dec

19

Frank Pasquale Blogging About “A Deep Rot at the Core of American Finance and Politics”

Posted by: | December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

Over at Concurring Opinions, Frank Pasquale has written a post entitled “The Economics Was Fake But the Bonuses Were Real.”  If you find yourself wondering lately about whether and how we will “rebuild the trust necessary for a thriving economy” (Pasquale’s words), it’s worth reading.  He discusses, for instance, the recent and somewhat surprising statements [...]

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