2007-06-26: How did they keep this off the front page?
I know it’s an internal poll, and I know that Obama hasn’t really started an ad campaign in Iowa yet, and I know the margin of error is plus or minus 4.4%, and I know that the campaign had to carve out the likeliest caucus-goers from those that are just likely caucus-goers, but still there is a poll that says Richardson is ahead of Obama in Iowa!!!!…for third place.
2007-06-20: No Troops Left Behind
Bill Richardson has a new website up: notroopsleftbehind.com. What I especially like about Bill Richardson’s approach to Iraq is that his plan doesn’t end with pulling out our troops. Instead, bringing our troops home is a key component of a cohesive strategy for stabilizing the region. Check out the videos for more:
Bill Richardson speaking at the Take Back America conference
Bill Richardson on Late Edition
2007-06-08: On to Property
I finished my skimming of Professor Glannon’s Civil Procedure: Examples and Explanations yesterday. I didn’t read the case materials for the hypo at the end, and I skipped most of the actual examples (and explanations), but I did mark it up so that I can go back quickly to find the relevant info. Interestingly, I found a number of typos as I was going through it (including where the name of a corporation changed halfway through a hypo). Maybe this is par for the course as these publishers compete to come out with new editions as quickly as possible.
I’m now starting on Professor Krier’s Property outline.
2007-06-01: Creekstone Farms Premium Beef v. U.S. Department of Agriculture
This is a news story that doesn’t seem to be getting as much play as I would expect. There is a small “boutique” cattle farm (they slaughter about 300,000 head of cattle each year) wants to test all of their slaughtered cattle for “mad cow” disease (as opposed to the small percentage that is normally checked). The U.S.D.A. said they couldn’t, but a federal judge ruled they can (ruling is here). The U.S.D.A. is appealing the ruling, which was to go into effect today.
2007-05-30: Judge Posner on Comic Books
Law Prof. Tim Wu and programmer Stuart Sierra, both of Columbia University, have put together a web compendium of Judge Posner’s opnions. It’s at ProjectPosner.org. For instance, you can search on “comic book” and find 6 hits, including Neil Gaiman Marvels And Miracles Llc v. Todd Mcfarlane 360 F.3d 644 (2004), in which the Honorable Richard A. Posner gives a summary of the comic book Spawn:
The leading character in the series is a man named Al Simmons, who is dead but has returned to the world of the living as a Hellspawn. Al’s story is an affecting one. Born in a quiet neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh, he was recruited by the CIA and eventually became a member of an elite military unit that guards the President. He saved the President from an assassin’s bullet and was rewarded with a promotion to lieutenant colonel. He was placed under the command of Jason Wynn, who became his mentor and inducted him into the sinister inner recesses of the intelligence community. When Al began to question Wynn’s motives, Wynn sent two agents, significantly named Chapel and Priest, to kill Al with laser weapons, and they did, burning him beyond recognition. Al was buried with great fanfare in Arlington National Cemetery.
Now Al had always had an Achilles’ heel, namely that he loved his wife beyond bearing and so, dying, he vowed that he would do anything to see her again. Malebolgia took him at his word (”would do anything” and returned Al to Earth. But a deal with the devil is always a Faustian pact. Al discovered that he was now one of Malebolgia’s handpicked Hellspawn and had been remade (a full makeover, as we’ll see) and infused with Hell-born energy.
Returned to Earth in his new persona, Al discovers that his wife has remarried his best friend, who was able to give her the child he never could. He absorbs the blow but thirsts for revenge against Jason Wynn. He bides his time, living with homeless people and pondering the unhappy fact that once he exhausts his Hell-born energy he will be returned to Malebolgia’s domain and become a slave in an army of the damned with no hope of redemption. He must try somehow to break his pact with the devil.
2007-05-26: Breyer v. Scalia
This isn’t brand new, but definitely worth watching. Justices Scalia and Breyer discuss and debate their viewpoints on how to interpret the Constitution.
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