Law Roundtable
Crime & Federalism
Clusterstock is a finance news site with a very pro-capitalist readership. Read the comments if you want to see the anti-banking sentiment. When a bunch of capitalists agree that banks are robbing people, something very criminal is ocurring.
There are some good comments regarding the shady practice of overdraft fees. ...
J. Allen Stanford, who has not yet been convicted, returned from a foreign country to fight the criminal charges against him. He could have fled, ...
Actual venire members ( N = 764) completed the Big Five Inventory before going through the jury selection process for 1 of ...
An ignorant 19-year-old from a farming community, I found Pascal's Wager reasonable. "Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should wager as though God exists, because so living ...
Michael Jackson died, Bernie Madoff got 150 years, and the United States Supreme Court sided with the white firefighters. Life would be unintesting if everyone stopped talking about the same things as everyone else. And if everyone else decided to stop being interested in the same things, life would be ...
In the most recent Los Angeles Lawyer is an article exploring the legal and ethical issues of having a private investigator, investigate jurors. (It's here.) It's written by two associates from the best investigative firm in California, Batza & Associates. This ancedote was especially interesting:
As part of the ...
It's one thing to say, "I wish you were dead!" It's quite another to post your photo, work address, references to colleagues of yours who had been killed, etc. Details here.
California is broke. It's going to start issuing IOUs to creditors. Article One, Section 10 of the United States Constitution provides: "No State shall ... emit Bills of Credit []."
Is an IOU a "bill of credit"?
I don't know. Do you?
Saying this deeply offends people, as the truth often does: If you are the best at what you do, you'll always have a job. People go home, drink beer, and watch televion. They are then shocked to lose their jobs.
Sure, rarely an industry dies; but even then, start learning ...Awesome, A+, fantastic, must-see review here. The .pdf feature is what sold me on the DX rather than the Kindle 2. The DX is larger, though. With the Kindle 2, you must convert .pdf files. Not everyone has had good luck with the conversion. Most of my day is ...