all-encompassingly

i am speechless.

We are very blessed here in the US to have strong institutions that would probably prevent such an outcome.
Nevertheless, listening to this clip of FDR lament the power of the Supreme Court (and the principle of private contracts) makes me wonder if the next collapse of our economy will give rise to a power mad [...]

take the video with a grain of salt. according to one law professor i talked to, “res gestae” is never the correct answer (at least on his exams).

I think that the courts got this one right.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.
The $30 million lawsuit accused the site of having no measures to protect children [...]

Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, wants to outlaw spanking children up to 3 years old. If she succeeds, California would become the first state in the nation to explicitly ban parents from smacking their kids.
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The bill, which is still being drafted, will be written broadly, she added, prohibiting “any striking of a child, any corporal [...]

If Harry Reid wasn’t enough of a joke as it is, here is the Democrat’s latest foray into limiting free speech:
HARRY REID INTRODUCES BILL TO REGISTER BLOGGERS? Hmm.
And from that link:
S.1 has been introduced in the Senate as “lobbying reform” — which in this case means “First Amendment infringements.” An amendment has been attached, which [...]

Heh.
Suspended Duke University lacrosse players Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann have been invited to return to the school as students, more than a week after the Durham district attorney dropped rape charges against them and David Evans and a full semester after the pair were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the rape [...]

This makes me want to move back to Latin America where many aspects of Orwellian big-brotherness, if desired, are too expensive for the government to implement.
England is not so lucky, having been blessed with both wealth and autocratic-leaning politicians.
“People are shocked when they hear the cameras talk, but when they see everyone else looking at [...]

If nothing else demostrates the nonsensical nature of U.S. copyright law, then this surely does:
The RIAA is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music in the amount of $150,000 for each of the 11 million songs that were downloaded from June to October of 2006. That comes [...]

break out the bubbly!
i have, on two occasions now, overheard the campus tour guides at the university of kentucky telling visitors that the law school is “in the top 25 in the country.”
whenever i hear this, i look up from my casebook with this face:

in early 2005, when i applied, UK was ranked [...]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Felipe Calderon took over as Mexico’s president on Friday and pleaded for an end to months of unrest over his narrow election win, but a huge brawl erupted in Congress where leftist opponents vowed to block him from taking the formal oath of office.
Dozens of rival lawmakers threw punches and chairs [...]

recently, while looking for some help with a few songs i’m trying to learn to play on the guitar, i discovered something very sad. it appears the NMPA and the MPA have threatened two of my favorite tablature site, guitartabs.cc and olga.net (and probably others) claiming their guitar tablature archives infringe on numerous copyrights [...]

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii — An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 4.5 struck off the northwest coast of the Big Island on Thursday in the same area where two stronger temblors struck last month.
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The U.S. Geological Survey estimated its magnitude at 5.0; the Tsunami Warning Center estimated it at 4.5.
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Magnitude 6.7 and 6.0 earthquakes shook [...]

Some Muslim cabbies are refusing fares from people who don’t observe Islamic law…like blind folks with seeing-eye dogs.
Bruce Gilmour filed the complaint after a cab driver from North Shore Taxi refused to let his guide dog into the cab in January of this year. Gilmour, who says it’s not the first time he’s been refused [...]

Then: If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.
Now: If I did it, here’s how it happened.
“O.J. Simpson, in his own words, tells for the first time how he would have committed the murders if he were the one responsible for the crimes,” the network said in a statement. “In the two-part event, Simpson describes how [...]