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PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Okay, campers. Somebody please explain this one to me. I decided I wanted to take at least one horseback riding lesson, because, well, I just want to. We'll see where it goes from there. I went up to the Bay Harbor Equestrian Club, where horses seem to live in nicer condos than most people, and I'm due to mount up this Thursday on "Nick," who is supposedly gentle on aging, "City Slicker"...
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TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Kimberly D. Krawiec (North Carolina) has published a series of posts that every law faculty in America should consider: My Tenure’s For Sale. How About Yours? Incentives And Institutions: Why Stop With The Banks? When It Comes To Law Faculty, We’re All Post-Modernists "We All Contribute In Our Own Ways"...
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The title of this post is the headline of this commentary by renown conservative Richard Viguerie, which appears in the July 2009 issue of Sojourners Magazine. Here are snippets:
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Blawgletter (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
I'll huff, and I'll puff! Frank Churchill and Ann Ronnell wrote the lyrics to a Depression-era favorite, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf. Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon, "Three Little Pigs", featured the song. It reminds Blawgletter of an...
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Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
As detailed in this brief public notice, the US Sentencing Commission has another one of its regional public hearings on tap for this week. This third regional public hearing is scheduled for July 9-10, 2009, in New York City will...
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The Right Coast (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Readers of this blog might doubt it, but I actually don't like partisanship. I view it as a necessary evil, but an evil nonetheless. Of course, my posts on this blog are highly partisan, but my scholarship is much less...
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Jack Bog's Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
It's interesting to see who gets bitten by the blogging bug. Erstwhile Portlander Janna Orkney, daughter of the founder of G.I. Joe's, blogged about that experience for a while. Now she's tackling public affairs on her home turf of...
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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (Free subscription) | 30 minutes ago
A recent nursing home population analysis found that the number of first-time nursing home residents admitted with mental illness has far surpassed the number of those with dementia and Alzheimer’s. The number of nursing home residents admitted with a mental illness rose from 168,721 to 187,478. That is more than 50% more than those admitted dementia only, which considers many mental illnesses....
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Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog (Free subscription) | 30 minutes ago
A study shows that about 47,000 elderly Americans are treated in emergency rooms each year from falls associated with walkers and canes. An epidemiologist at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated that walking aids can be a hazard if not used properly. The study found that 87 percent of fall injuries involved walkers and 12 percent involved canes. A statistical analysis estimates that...
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Minor Wisdom (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
This kid from Iowa, born in 1979, was inspired by the movie Saving Private Ryan. So every year around Memorial Day, he paints a patriotic mural on a rock near his home town. My favorite is the 2007 edition.
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Structured Settlements 4Real: What' (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
How often should one check one's website to check to see if what is being said is still current? What if the facts presented on one's website were not correct in the first place? Someone better tell Robert Risk at...
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Kentucky Law Review (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
FRANKFORT, Ky. -- The Kentucky court system has the legal forms and processes in place to carry out a bill that prohibits a person who owes restitution for certain theft offenses from driving until the restitution is paid in full, with an option to apply for a hardship license. HB 369, passed by the 2009 Kentucky General Assembly, was effective June 25 and applies to offenses committed from the effective...
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A little fish in law school (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
I am filled with a renewed sense of purpose. I have a very long story explaining how someone's inability to add together three two-digit numbers ruined my weekend. But I am not going to tell it. Yes, I am now a full week behind on bar review. But somehow that actually feels completely surmountable. (LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU PACED PROGRAM!!!) Tomorrow, I will kick ass on the practice MBE and thereafter...
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Discriminations (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The estimable Mickey Kaus , citing the estimable Walter Olson, worries about employers who will get sued if they ignore the results of tests that have a disparate impact ... and sued if they don’t, but he goes on to argue that ... Justice Anthony Kennedy’s solution to this problem in the Ricci case — that a city can’t throw out a job test that winds up promoting whites and...
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What About Clients? (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
We got a profession for you right here. See Scott Greenfield's April 22 piece "Waiting For The Checks To Roll In", commenting on a WSJ Mark Penn column declaring that "blogging is the newest profession". Greenfield excerpt: They [pro bloggers]...
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