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Do We Have This One?? Needs a Better Title The ability to remove one's eye (real or false) and use it to view hard to see areas during certain situations after placing it somewhere. The eye is not in any way connected to the owner, yet it operates just as well as it was. Apart from the creepyness value, it can also work as a Surveillance Drone. Compare Detachment Combat, Helping Hands, Losing Your Head.
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- Gaara in Naruto does this during the first stage of the Chunnin exams.
- In the Toy Story series, the Potato Heads are often seen holding their eyes above their heads to see, etc., as a gag. It becomes a plot point in Toy Story 3, when Mrs. Potato Head loses an eye before leaving Andy's room, and later finds that she can still use it to see Andy's room from under the dresser where she left it.
- Spy in Your Eye
- The alien does this in Brother From Another Planet.
- Discworld: Blind Io has dozens of remote eyes.
- In the Harry Potter series, Mad-Eye Moody's magical eye. Also, it's used by Dolores Umbridge as a spycam.
- A Monster of the Week on The X-Files was able to order his body parts about to act independently, including his eyes.
- G'Kar picks up this ability on Babylon 5: after the deranged Centauri emperor gouges his eye out, it is later replaced with an artificial eye that can function even when removed from his eye socket.
- Aughra from The Dark Crystal has only one eye, but she can remove it from her head and hold it up to get a better look at things.
- In Vampire: TheRequiem, Belial's Brood has an investment called Flesh Spider that lets the detach body parts but still use them. This includes their eyes.
- In the second installment of the Thief series, Garret obtains a mechanical eye that he can see through, even when you take it out and throw over a fence or use it to look around corners. That's how it was explained to me, anyway.
- EverQuest has the ability with some spells, an item, and a monk disciple to send out an eye to investigate for you.
- Arguably the whole point of Krumm's character design from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters. He doesn't even have eye sockets -- he carries his eyeballs around in his hands. They get thrown around or rolled into places where he wants to see quite a bit.
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LINE-1 and Alu methylation patterns. The dark circles represent methylated cytosine, while the hollow circles represent unmethylated cytosine. There are four possible methylation patterns for the LINE-1 and Alu amplicons, including hypermethylated loci (mCmC), hypomethylated loci (uCuC), and 2 partially methylated loci (mCuC and uCmC). In each model, TaqI specifically identified methylated cytosine, while TasI specifically identified unmethylated cytosine. (A) The different methylation patterns of LINE-1 resulted in four differently sized digested products of 160 bp, 98 bp, 80 bp and 62 bp. (B) The different methylation patterns of the Alu element resulted in four differently sized digested products of 117 bp, 74/75 bp, 42/43 bp and 32 bp.
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Rep. Bart Stupak [D, MI-1] is threatening to keep the House from passing the Senate health care bill (H.R. 3590) and potentially sink the whole health care reform process unless its language regarding abortion is amended to match the language he added to the House health care bill. The Senate bill already blocks federal funding from going towards abortion services, but Stupak wants it to prevent anyone buying insurance through the new Exchanges from purchasing a plan that covers elective abortions, even if they are buying the insurance plan entirely with their own money.
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Your answer didn't address the moisture issue which is THE issue. The car either stumbles and starts or just cranks before it stumbles and starts. Is it possible the moisture from rain could short out the fuel pump (which has recently been replaced) at either the tank end or engine end? I seriously doubt it could be anywhere in the electrics to the pump, but still, that would b the only area it could be close to the ground. If that were the case the engine probably wouldn't run at all. Somehow moisture from the rain is getting into some component which controls the ignition or fuel because the engine (usually) just cranks without trying to start. It acts like either the vibration or heat generated while starting is barely enough to shake and or dry out the affected component. I'll check the fuel pressure while cranking to eliminate that, but I'm suspicious of the distributor like unit at the rear of the engine, there may be a leak in the hood seal or a piece of debris acting as a channel for water to dribble into that "distributor" unit. Thanks
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12/13/11 5:25 PM by NarlyPersianDude
We doing this
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12/2/11 4:57 PM by NarlyPersianDude
Guys and girls please show some support for a great man dasry
12/1/11 6:33 PM by NarlyPersianDude
Classy and proper move, FoSho
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This is an amazing tribute for Shawn.. RIP Coach.
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Wait they named Coach of the Year after him?
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It was the right move to name the award after him. There would not have been anything more fitting. Winners of the award will come and go. Their names will be put on lists for people in the future to memorize or not. Shawn will always be there now whenever the award is given. As Shawn used to like to joke, "If I don't remember it, it didn't happen." Now he'll always be remembered.
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this was the right move. not him winning
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Sperm Donor Not Father To Child For Social Security Benefits Purposes
In response to a question certified from federal district court, the Utah Supreme Court has held that a deceased husband who donated sperm to his wife prior to his death is not considered as the father of the resulting child for social security benefits purposes.
The sperm was donated because the husband was ungoing cancer treatments that rendered him sterile. The child was not conceived until after he had died from his cancer.
The court concluded that the signed agreement to donate the sperm did not establish the donor's consent to be treated as a father. (Mike Frisch)
October 14, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Cell Phone In Jail Cell No Crime
The Nevada Supreme Court has affirmed the dismissal of criminal charges brought against a jail inmate who was found concealing a cell phone in his jail cell.
The defendant was charged under a statute that prohibits possesssion of an item that can be used for escape. The court concluded that "it would be virtually impossible to use a cell phone to forcibly break out of, or physically flee from, a jail cell." (Mike Frisch)
October 7, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, September 30, 2012
"Living In Adultery" In Kentucky
A recent decision of the Kentucky Supreme Court turned on the interpretation of the phrase "living in adultery" in determing the disposition of an estate.
The phrase comes from the Statute of Westminster (1285) as adopted by Kentucky in 1796 and most recently codified in 1942.
The deceased was killed in a work-related accident. The only significant asset of his estate was the workers' compensation claim.
At the time of his death, he had been married for four months. His wife (the claimant here) sought a civil protection order and had filed for divorce. They were living apart.
The proofs at trial established that she had engaged in sexual intercourse the night before her husband died.
The trial court found that the single act established that the wife was "living in adultery" and awarded the estate to the deceased's mother.
Both the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court disagreed, holding that the wife's single act did not constitute "living in adultery."
There are two dissents. Justice Cunningham stated the issue as whether the estate should go to the deceased "loving, nurturing mother" or the "adulterous and absent wife" and said: "Let's be sensible." The dissenters would hold that the marriage was clearly over.
The majority and dissents also disagree over the significance of the wife's post-widow continuing relationship with the person she had slept with on the night before her husband's death.
The majority found that the widow could no longer engage in adultery after her husband's death. The evidence thus was irrelevant. The dissenters would consider the evidence as proof that the marriage was over. (Mike Frisch)
September 30, 2012 in Current Affairs, Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, August 10, 2012
Duhl on Dealing with Mental Illness in Law School and Practice
In a revealing and candid essay, and review of the sparse literature on mental illness among law professors, Gregory Duhl (Law, Wm. Mitchell) includes a narrative from the "outsider" experience of his own issues with borderline personality disorder. Among many interesting aspects is his contention that his success is in some senses because of his illness and not despite it--and in that way criticizes some aspects of the pathbreaking book by Louiville's James Jones, A Hidden Madness. Duhl's article is new on SSRN and is entitled "Over the Borderline — A Review of Margaret Price's Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability in Academic Life." His abstract:
This essay is about "madness" in higher education. In Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability in Academic Life, Professor Price analyzes the rhetoric and discourse surrounding mental disabilities in academia. In this essay, I place Price's work in a legal context, suggesting why the Americans with Disabilities Act fails those with mental illness and why reform is needed to protect them. My own narrative as a law professor with Borderline Personality Disorder frames my critique. Narratives of mental illness are important because they help connect those who are often stigmatized and isolated due to mental illness and provide a framework for them to overcome barriers limiting their equal participation in academic life.
[Alan Childress]
August 10, 2012 in Law & Society, Teaching & Curriculum | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Today In Wrongful Death Litigation
The West Virginia Supreme Court has reversed a finding of defective service in a case brought by an estate representative for a death that took place on a whitewater rafting trip on the Cheat River.
The service issue involved a rafting guide who lived a "transient" lifestyle. In response to a summons left at his parent's house in West Virginia, he filed an affidavit claiming not to live there but rather on a boat docked in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. The plaintiffs responded that the self-serving affidavit failed to establish that service was defective.
The court agreed with the plaintiff, noting that the defendant guide claimed the parent's house as his residence on multiple forms filed with the West Virginia motor vehicle authorities.
In an unrelated matter, the New York Appellate Division for the Third Judicial Department affirmed dismissal of an estate's wrongful death action against New York State in a matter in which a visitor to Taughannock Falls State Park had walked past warning signs and was killed by falling rocks.
The incident that led to the litigation can be best understood through this photograph and story at NY Falls.com. (Mike Frisch)
June 7, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
One Date Not Enough For Domestic Violence Conviction
The New Jersey Appellate Division has reversed a domestic violence conviction of a defendant who had assaulted another person while on a "birthright" trip to Israel.
The defendant had not known the victim prior to the trip. They "hung out" together on the evening in question at a bar with others and danced together. The "atrocious assault" took place later that evening in the victim's room. The defendant was convicted in Jersalem District Court.
The court here held that the interaction between the victim and defendant may have been a "date" but that they were not in a dating relationship, which is an element of the offense. (Mike Frisch)
June 6, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Maryland Permits Same-Sex Divorce
The Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled that the courts of the state have authority to adjudicate a petition for a divorce in same-sex marriages. The parties involved were married in California.
The court described the approach of the Maryland Legislature to same-sex marriage as akin to a patient that in its "lay diagnosis" is suffering from a "multiple personality disorder." (Mike Frisch)
May 18, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
New York Declines To Extend Wieder Exception
The New York Court of Appeals has declined to extend the Wieder exception to the doctrine of at-will employment and affirmed the grant of summary judgment to a defendant hedge fund company and its president, who had fired its chief compliance officer.
The plaintiff had claimed he was fired for reporting misconduct.
The Wieder exception involved an attorney who had been fired from his law firm for reporting unethical conduct.
Chief Judge Lippman dissented:
In the wake of the devastation caused by fraudulent financial schemes - such as the Madoff ponzi operation, infamous for many reasons including the length of time during which it continued undetected - the courts can ill afford to turn a blind eye to the potential for abuses that may be committed by unscupulous financial services companies in violation of the public trust and law. In the absence of conscientious efforts by those insiders entrusted to report such abuses of investors, such behavior can run rampant until a third part outside the company discovers it and takes action. The message that will be taken from the majority's decision is self-evident: if compliance officers (and other similarly situated) wish to keep their jobs, they should keep their heads down and ignore good-faith suspicions or evidence they may have that their employers have engaged in illegal and unethical behavior, even where such violations could cause or have caused staggering losses to their employer's clients. The majority's conclusion that an investment advisor like Peconic has every right to fire its compliance officer, simply for doing his job, flies into the face of what we have learned from the Madoff debacle, runs counter to the letter and spirit of the Court's precedent, and facilitates the perpetration of frauds on the public.
(Mike Frisch)
May 8, 2012 in Law & Business, Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Summary Judgment Not In The Cards
The South Dakota Supreme Court has reversed and remanded in a matter where the trial court granted summary judgment to the defendant in an alienation of affection suit.
The plaintiff's spouse had become friendly with the defendant. They talked often on the phone and ran together in marathons. He got divorced in 2005.
The spouse told the defendant that she had filed for divorce at some point over the 2009 Labor Day weekend. They had sex that weekend. In fact, the divorce proceedings were not started until October 2009.
The defendant's summary judgment motion "asserted that [the spouse] had no affections for [the husband] that [the defendant] could have alienated."
The court here found sufficient evidence of affection to defeat the motion.
While the spouse testified at deposition that she had stopped loving her husband in the late 1990s, she had sent him a 10th anniversary card that said "These have been the best 10 years of my life. I'm so blessed to have you for my husband. I love you. Love your wife."
She also told a marriage counselor in 2006 that the marriage had "improved greatly," told another therapist in 2008 that she still loved her husband, and underwent breast augmentation surgery because she thought it would make her more attractive to him: "These facts are inconsistent with the loveless relationship [she] depicted in her deposition." (Mike Frisch)
May 3, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
State Beats Off Challenge To Common Law Indecent Exposure Conviction
The Maryland Court of Appeals sustained convictions against a defendant for both common law indecent exposure as well as a statutory offense contained in the Corrections Services Article.
The defendant was incarcerated at the Montgomery County Correctional Facility. He "masturbated in sight of a female corrections officer, while smiling and making eye contact with her, in spite of her orders to stop."
The court majority found that the statute did not preempt the common law offense. Two judges dissented. (Mike Frisch)
May 1, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, April 26, 2012
No Free Bite For Maryland Pit Bulls
A divided Maryland Court of Appeals has held that a premises owner with the right to control a pit bull or cross-bred pit bull dog is liable for damages caused by the dog's attack notwithstanding the absence of prior notice of the dog's attacking nature: "When an attack involves pit bulls, it is no longer necessary to prove that the particular pit bull or pit bulls are dangerous."
The holding in essence creates strict liability for owners of dogs with some amount of pit bull in them. Among the cases cited by the majority is a bar discipline matter from Florida involving the use of pit bull imagery in lawyer advertising.
The court declined to opine on the impact of the opinion on Rottweiler attacks.
There is a dissent of three judges:
Today, the majority holds that a pit bull or any dog with a trace of pit bull ancestry (determined by what means the majority leaves us entirely in the dark) shall be deemed hence forth vicious and inherently dangerous as a matter of law.
A footnote in the dissent:
The majority opinion delivers an unenlightening and unworkable rule regarding mixed-breed dogs. How much "pit bull" must there be in a dog to bring it within the strict liability edict? How will that be determined? What rationale exists for any particular percentage of the genetic code to trigger strict liability?
The dog at issue here was named Clifford (earlier Maryland pit bull cases involved dogs named Trouble and Rampage). Clifford escaped from a pen and attacked two boys. (Mike Frisch)
April 26, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Mistaken For Jew, Employee May Sue
The New Jersey Appellate Division has reversed an order of summary judgment as to two of three defendants sued under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination ("LAD").
The plaintiff (a truck driver) had claimed to be subject to regular anti-Semitic comments from the defendants, who mistakenly thought that he was Jewish. The trial court held that the fact that the plaintiff was not in fact Jewish barred the action.
The court here found that conclusion to be erroneous as a matter of law:
...the individual defendants, all of whom were plaintiff's supervisors, were motivated by their belief that plaintiff was Jewish, and thus engaged in "real discrimination and harassment" of the kind that the LAD seeks to eliminate...That their target happened not to be Jewish should not serve to excuse their conduct.
The defendants had initially denied the comments had been made until a DVD was produced by the plaintiff that had such expressions as "Jew Bag," "F... you Hebrew," "Jew Bastard," "If you were a German, we would burn you in the oven," and "Only a Jew would argue over his hours."
At his deposition, one of the defendants admitted that the DVD was accurate and that he "used the song Hava Nagila as the ring tone for calls on his cell phone from plaintiff." (Mike Frisch)
April 18, 2012 in Law & Business, Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Cynthia Epstein on women in the legal profession
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (CUNY, Sociology) has republished her classic and foundational study Women in Law as part of the Quid Pro book project. It adds a new Foreword by Stanford's Deborah Rhode. Excerpt on the demise of 'Ladies' Day' in law schools, and other info, found at MsJD blog. And the book itself is at Amazon in paperback or Kindle, plus B&N for Nook and Apple iBooks. Although the book certainly covers women as law students and in law teaching, most chapters are about professional practice as such, in firms, solo practice, public interest work, government, and the judiciary.
Also out in paperback is a book I edited, written by Tulane students: Hot Topics in the Legal Profession 2012. Those two are the newest ones on topic with the U.S. legal profession. Upcoming is a reissue in paperback of Llewellyn's The Bramble Bush, though already in Kindle and other ebook formats. [Alan Childress]
April 11, 2012 in Books, Childress, Law & Society, Law Firms | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Touro Law Hosts Speaker 3/20 on Orthodox Jewish Lawyering and Change in the Profession
Touro Law Center's Jewish Law Institute features Nathan Lewin as part of its Distinguished Lecture Series, on Tuesday, March 20, at 5:30 pm. Lewin, a renowned advocate of religious freedoms and frequent arguer before the U.S. Supreme Court, will deliver a lecture, "The Legal Profession and the Orthodox Jewish Lawyer: Change Over Half a Century." It is open to the public and more information is linked here. [Alan Childress]
March 6, 2012 in Conferences & Symposia, Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Keep The Noise Down In Ohio
From the web page of the Ohio Supreme Court:
The Supreme Court of Ohio held today that a provision in the state's disorderly conduct statute, R.C. 2917.11(A)(2), that prohibits "recklessly causing inconvenience, annoyance or alarm to another by ... making excessive noise" provides sufficient notice for a person of ordinary intelligence to understand what the law requires, and therefore is not unconstitutionally vague.
The Court's 7-0 decision, authored by Justice Robert R. Cupp, affirmed a decision of the 9th District Court of Appeals.
The case involved a citation issued to Jason Carrick of Wayne County by sheriff's deputies for a minor misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. The citation was issued after an incident in which neighbors complained about loud music and particularly "booming" bass coming from a building owned by Carrick at which he was hosting a Halloween party. Carrick initially complied with the deputies' request that he reduce the volume of the music, but later increased the volume again after the officers departed. After obtaining signed complaints from the neighbors, the deputies returned to Carrick's property, cited him for violating the state disorderly conduct statute, and warned him that if they had to return again he would be arrested.
After receiving a third complaint at approximately 1:30 a.m., deputies returned to the property and placed Carrick under arrest. He was charged with and convicted of violating R.C. 2917.11(A)(2), the subsection of the disorderly conduct statute that addresses noise-related violations.
Carrick appealed, asserting that his conviction should be vacated because R.C. 2917.11(A)(2) fails to describe the conduct it prohibits with enough specificity that a person of ordinary intelligence can know what the law requires, and the provision is therefore unconstitutionally vague and unenforceable. The 9th District Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court, but certified that its ruling was in conflict with a 1985 decision of the 4th District in which that court held that the challenged statutory language was not sufficiently specific, and was therefore void for vagueness.
The Supreme Court agreed to review the case to resolve the conflict between appellate districts.
Writing for the Court, Justice Cupp cited Columbus v. Kim, a 2008 decision in which the Supreme Court upheld as constitutional a Columbus city ordinance that banned keeping or harboring "any animal which howls, barks or emits audible sounds that are unreasonably loud or disturbing and which are of such character intensity and duration as to disturb the peace and quiet of the neighborhood ..."
In Kim, Justice Cupp wrote, "(W)e concluded that 'Columbus City Code 2327.14 is not unconstitutionally vague, because it sets forth sufficient standards to place a person of ordinary intelligence on notice of what conduct the ordinance prohibits. The ordinance incorporates an objective standard by prohibiting only those noises that are "unreasonably loud or disturbing." The ordinance provides specific factors to be considered to gauge the level of the disturbance, namely, the "character, intensity and duration" of the disturbance. Further, we recognize that there are limitations in the English language with respect to being both specific and manageably brief, and it seems to us that although the prohibitions may not satisfy those intent on finding fault at any cost, they are set out in terms that the ordinary person exercising ordinary common sense can sufficiently understand and comply with.'"
"We find the analysis in Kim to be applicable here. Contrary to the appellate court's analysis in the conflict case ... and Carrick's assertions in this case, the statute at issue here does provide adequate qualifying language to prevent the statute from being unconstitutionally vague. R.C. 2917.11(A)(2) sets forth sufficient standards to place a person of ordinary intelligence on notice of what conduct the statute prohibits. It incorporates an objective standard by prohibiting only noise that is 'unreasonable.' This objective standard undermines Carrick's assertion that R.C. 2917.11(A)(2) permits hypersensitive persons to impose criminal liability on others. Further, it enumerates specific factors – 'inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another' − with which to judge the level of the disturbance."
"Additionally, the statute requires a culpable mental state of recklessness. Therefore, in order to violate R.C. 2917.11(A)(2), a person must act 'with heedless indifference to the consequences,' in 'perversely disregard[ing] a known risk that his conduct is likely to cause a certain result or is likely to be of a certain nature.'"
"The record contains sufficient evidence for the trier of fact to conclude that the loud bass music emanating from Carrick's Halloween party was loud enough to constitute 'unreasonable noise' that 'inconvenience[d], annoy[ed], or alarm[ed] ... another.' ... More specifically, (the complaining neighbors) were inconvenienced and annoyed by the loud bass music. A person of ordinary intelligence would understand that R.C. 2917.11(A)(2) proscribes playing music at a late hour at such a volume that it keeps the neighbors from sleeping, causes windows to vibrate on a house a quarter mile away, and prompts numerous calls of complaint to authorities. Moreover, prior to citing Carrick, law enforcement officers visited the property to advise Carrick that the music was so loud that it was generating complaints from his neighbors and they warned him to lower the volume. Carrick has failed to establish 'beyond a reasonable doubt, that the statute was so unclear that he could not reasonably understand that it prohibited the acts in which he engaged.'"
"Accordingly, we conclude that R.C. 2971.11(A)(2) is neither unconstitutionally vague on its face nor as applied to Carrick. We answer the certified question in the negative and affirm the judgment of the court of appeals."
Justice Cupp's opinion was joined by Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor and Justices Evelyn Lundberg Stratton, Terrence O'Donnell, Judith Ann Lanzinger and Yvette McGee Brown. Justice Paul E. Pfeifer concurred in judgment only.
The court's opinion is linked here. (MIke Frisch)
February 22, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
"All Right, Nikki..."
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed its Court of Appeals and held that a criminal defendant convicted of battery on a law enforcement officer and disorderly conduct was not entitled to a new trial because she used a peremptory challenge to keep the judge's daughter-in-law off the jury:
We conclude that because the defendant exercised a peremptory strike to remove the circuit court judge's daughter-in-law from the jury, and because the defendant does not claim the jury was unfair or partial, a new trial is not required under the circumstances of the present case. The defendant has not shown that the presence of the challenged juror in the pool of potential jurors affected the defendant's substantial rights. Accordingly, we reverse the decision of the court of appeals ordering a new trial.
The voir dire of the potential juror is recounted in the opinion:
THE COURT: All right. Nikki, you're my daughter-in-law. All right. I've told the attorneys that you and I have had no discussions about the case, correct?
JUROR STENGEL: Correct.
THE COURT: As a matter of fact, I didn't know until last night that you were coming in as a juror in this matter, right?
JUROR STENGEL: Correct.
THE COURT: Very good. You didn't ask and I wouldn't have excused you anyways so. But you're competent, you can be fair and impartial?
JUROR STENGEL: Uh-huh.
THE COURT: The fact that I'm the judge wouldn't affect your ability in this matter at all?
JUROR STENGEL: No.
THE COURT: Listen to all the evidence and decide the case, correct?
JUROR STENGEL: Correct.
THE COURT: And if we see you after the case, you wouldn't be at all hesitant as to how you decide the case, right?
JUROR STENGEL: Correct.
THE COURT: Very good. And I have told the lawyers about this, so they understand that as well.
The case was remanded to explore claims of ineffective assistance of counsel.The defense counsel had not challenged for cause.(Mike Frisch)
February 1, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Monday, January 30, 2012
Weisselberg and Li on the White Collar Defense Bar in BigLaw and How it Has Changed
Charles Weisselberg and Su Li (Cal., Berkeley Law [and its great Center for Study of Law & Society]) have posted to SSRN their study of the transformation of the white collar defense bar. Its title is Big Law's Sixth Amendment: The Rise of Corporate White-Collar Practices in Large U.S. Law Firms and its abtract is:
Over the last three decades, corporate white-collar criminal defense and investigations practices have become established within the nation's largest law firms. It did not used to be this way. White-collar work was not considered a legal specialty. And, historically, lawyers in the leading civil firms avoided criminal matters. But several developments occurred at once: firms grew dramatically, the norms within the firms changed, and new federal crimes and prosecution policies created enormous business opportunities for the large firms. Using a unique data set, this Article profiles the Big Law partners now in the white-collar practice area, most of whom are male former federal prosecutors. With additional data and a case study, the Article explores the movement of partners from government and from other firms, the profitability of corporate white-collar work, and the prosecution policies that facilitate and are in turn affected by the growth of this lucrative practice within Big Law. These developments have important implications for the prosecution function, the wider criminal defense bar, the law firms, and women in public and private white-collar practices.
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January 30, 2012 in Abstracts Highlights - Academic Articles on the Legal Profession, Law & Society, Law Firms | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Gallagher on the IP Bar, its Practices, and the Effect on Real Copyright and Trademark Law
You may not catch it from the title, but William T. Gallagher's (Golden Gate U. Law) new paper posted to SSRN is firmly about the legal profession, the bar, and the practice of IP law. Using an empirical/interviewing methodology, Gallagher explores the construction of copyright/trademark law through day-to-day practice, cease and desist letters, and the stuff that never makes it to courts. A teacher of both Professional Responsibility/lawyer regulation as well as IP law, he has spent years collecting the data for this revealing study. His abstract:
In recent years, as Congress has created new intellectual property (IP) rights and courts have often interpreted those rights broadly, legal scholars have frequently decried the expanded scope of protection afforded IP owners in most substantive areas of IP law. According to this critique, the over-expansion of IP rights throughout the past two decades harms competition, chills free speech, and diminishes the public domain as increasingly broad areas of social life are brought within the scope of strong IP protection. While this over-expansion theory reflects an important — indeed, foundational — policy debate concerning the proper balance between IP owners' rights and the public's rights of access to the information, ideas, and expressions that IP protects, it is incomplete precisely because it focuses largely on what Congress or the courts do. In reality, most enforcement of IP rights takes place not in court, but in the everyday practices of IP owners and their lawyers. "Cease and desist" letters, phone calls, and negotiations with alleged infringers constitute the bulk of IP enforcement efforts in trademark and copyright practice. To be sure, these efforts take place in the "shadow" of IP law and are therefore influenced by it. But it is in these everyday practices — and not in trial or appellate courts — that most IP rights are asserted, resisted, and negotiated. Thus, if we want to know whether IP rights are over-enforced or over-extended, we need to know how, why, and to what effect these rights are exercised in daily life. To date, however, IP scholarship has focused virtually no attention on this critical arena of everyday practice. Most IP scholarship is primarily doctrinal, focusing on published appellate cases. Even the growing empirical scholarship on IP focuses largely on published or, at least, filed cases. As in every other area of civil justice, however, most IP disputes do not result in litigation, and most litigation settles well before trial. Certainly, published appellate decisions and even filed cases represent only a small percentage of IP disputes. Thus, in order to more fully understand whether IP rights affect competition, chill free speech, diminish the public domain, or impede creativity, it is necessary to explore how IP claims are made and resolved in private negotiation rather than in litigation, which is the focus of this Article. It presents findings from a qualitative empirical study of the trademark and copyright disputing process outside of court, based on original data derived from semi-structured interviews with experienced IP attorneys who advise clients on how to enforce their rights. This research is one of the first studies to examine how trademark and copyright claims are actually enforced in practice.
[Alan Childress]
January 29, 2012 in Abstracts Highlights - Academic Articles on the Legal Profession, Law & Society | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Latex Allergy Must Be Accommodated By Preschool
In a 5-2 decision, the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed the Court of Special Appeals and found that a parent who suffered from an allergy to latex was discriminated against by her child's preschool for its failure to accommodate her condition by refusing to use non-latex products in its diaper changing of the child. The school responded by asking her to withdraw the child. The court held that the condition was a handicap that the school had not reasonably accommodated.
The dissent agrees that parenting is a "major life activity" but questions the "reasonable accommodation" analysis of the majority. The dissent also suggests that the court majority has failed to consider the potential broad impact of this decision. (Mike Frisch)
January 26, 2012 in Law & Society | Permalink | TrackBack (0)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Jury Questionnaires In Chandra Levy Murder Trial Must Be Disclosed
In the case involving the murder of Chandra Levy, the District of Columbia Court of Appealls has reversed and remanded a trial court order denying the Washington Post access to completed jury questionnaires.
The Post's request was made after the trial jury had been selected and the trial had begun. The government contended that the request was thus untimely.
On remand, the trial judge must start with a presumption that the completed questionnaires should be completely disclosed. If any answers touch on "deeply personal matters," the judge may provide the jurors with an opportunity to raise concerns in camera. The court may then enter specific individualized findings on the necessity of redaction that a capable of appellate review. (Mike Frisch)
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No current Talk conversations about this book.
I'm still not sure how I feel about the fact that all the female characters are basically "evil" (at least from Drizzt's perspective, though they certainly don't seem very likable from my perspective either!)
On the one hand, I like the idea of "equal opportunity villains." Who says women can't be the bad guys? And how often do you see men as the subjugated group instead of women?
But on the other hand, the only two characters with any hint of virtue (at least by our standards) are both men, and it's not at all clear where they got this virtue, as it seems conspicuously absent from the women who dominate the dark elf society of the underworld. So I can't help but wonder: how did the men come by their "moral superiority," and will Drizzt ever encounter a woman with similar virtues?
The legend of Drizzt continues. I don't want to give anything away except go buy Homeland and then pick up Exile then hang on for a fun ride.
Homeland is the origin of Drizzt DoUrden and the primer for Drow culture. The Drow have a Spartan-like society that glorifies war but there is no honor among them. Day to day life is filled with deceit, treachery, and lies. I've often thought if Robert E Howard and L Sprague de Camp had a love child, it would be Salvatore. He is a master of adventure! Read further to see how Drizzt transcends the Drow culture.
I loved this book, it is an amazing example of a great fantasy novel. I had serious trouble putting it down. Drizzt is such an awesome character and his story is completely engaging. The depth and complexity of the character makes for a wonderful connection and a great read. I truely cannot wait to read the next book in the series.I would recommend this to anyone.
Homeland by R.A. Salvatore.
The Legend of Drizzt #1
I read these books back in highschool. Lots of years ago. More than I like to admit to myself. For about the next month I want to read something that I don't have to think about. These, along with the Dragonlance books, were my first introduction to fantasy novels. There's a lot of nostalgic baggage that goes along with these books.
I would never recommend these books to someone who has sort of "matured' in their fantasy reading. But for someone who just wants a good sword and magic vacation book, these are perfect.
When I read this series the first time I started with the Icewind Dale trilogy. These three dark elf books are prequels. But in most reading lists you see see them listed first. And it's true, chronologically they come earlier.
But I would strongly disagree.
Reading these books first, it gives the impression that Salvatore is trying to create a gritty, dark and edgy storyline. But that's just not what these books are.
Drizzt is a short skinny nimble Connan the Barbarian. Since the announcement for the next Drizzt book in 2014 just came out, I don't think I'm spoiling anything by telling you that he always figures out a way to win out over the forces of evil. You know he's going to win. You know he's going to do the right thing. And you know he's going to kick some ass along the way. He'll protect his friends, and fight fiercely to protect the innocent.
This isn't A Game Of Thrones where you get all anxious about your favorite character getting suddenly and violently offed in the next chapter. You're safe to kick back and enjoy and know that the good guys are going to win.
But there's the problem with reading the "Underdark" books first. They are meant to fill out the back story. To give Drizzt a bit of a troubled past. But if you start here, it's his present, not his past. Sure, you get the story told in chronological order, but I would argue that it's not as good as the Drizzt story where his Underdark days are more of a flashback.
For your enjoyment, start with the Icewind Dale trilogy.
These are just fun books, so I don't know if it's worth the deeper discussion. But, I wonder if the order you read them in doesn't just change your enjoyment, but if there's a less harmless change to the over all theme too. I read a harsh, but good, review of these book. A reader who was disturbed with the relentless and unredemptive darkness and violence in this book. The reviewer wasn't wrong. And without the context of the moral beacon and defender of justice that Drizzt become, I'd have to agree with that assessment.
Flip it.
Start with Drizzt as a character always struggling with the "right thing", and then step back into the dark past, and it makes his moral compass more remarkable.
Aaaaanyway…. Fun books. But start with the Icewind Dale trilogy. Take them on vacation. Or read them when you have to work stupid hours at work for a couple months and just want something to read while you're going to sleep, or don't want to think too much. Good action sequences. Swords, wizards, monsters, action galaore. Nothing too deep.
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Submitted by pete on October 14, 2006 - 20:05
Big win. FLA-1 TB-4 Martin St. Louis finally got his first goal of the season and goals were also added by Lecavalier, Fedotenko and Afansenkov. Overage prospect Eric Perrin got a helper on Afanasenkov's third period wrap around goal. Marc Denis stopped 23 of 24 for the win. Game sheet from [url=http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20062007/GS020066.HTM]NHL.com[/url]. Hopefully this game starts to rejuvenate the offense, although Brad Richards still has yet to talley his first goal. Doug Janik was even in 16:14 with 1 shot, 1 hit and 1 block. Eric Perrin was +1 in 13:50 and 50% on draws. [url=nick-tarnasky]Nick Tarnasky[/url] played his best game of the year thus far with 2 shots in 5:10. It seems the more the Lightning can get multi-goal leads, the more they'll be willing to give Tarnasky on the job training.
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Submitted by Ken on October 14, 2006 - 21:46.
I took my middle daughter - she's money. Birthday is June 7th by the way. I can't remember the last time (other than preseason) she's seen the Lightning lose, and neither can she. I first noticed it late January 2004. Lightning 6, Philly 1. We were on our way. She was about 6 - 0 the rest of the way. I got away with taking her mom to game 7 of the SCF even though it was her birthday. I believe she attended our 1st ever shootout win last year as well as the playoff clincher against Jersey last year. Walking to the rink tonight my thoughts were on Vinny. I wondered whether we should trade him while he still has good value. I don't think he'll ever reach his potential here unless we have a power forward for him to play with. For us, that leaves Craig. He scored with Ryan on the ice early last night, but the two barely played together after that. Tonight they were together throughout the results were consistently better. I'm not sure that Prospal wouldn't be better with those two than Feds. (Feds' showed when he can get open he's still deadly.) And Feds would be the closest thing to Modin to play with Brad and Marty. I'm a little worried about Richie, by the way. Late in that fight he had a couple of chances to throw punches and didn't. As he was leaving the ice it appeared he was examining his hand/wrist. Affy - He is what he is, a third liner. A good one too. I thought he was maybe our best forward tonight, and that was before he scored. He looked relieved to be down there. I can't believe he didn't score in the 2nd. That puck just rode the goal line and kicked out when it hit the post. If Tort's puts Karlsson on the 3rd and drops Perrin down, he's nuts. They were good all night. The umbrella still doesn't work. The first goal was a broken play (they never got set up) that left Vinny in the middle of the ice instead of hugging the wall. The 'Turds cut off the passing lanes leaving Belfour as the only direction in which to move the puck. The second was the 5 on 3. Vinny was still on the wall, but stayed down low and not out top leaving 2 up and 3 down the entire play. Denis was as good as he had to be and early, that was very good. Janik may be an outstanding pick-up. He's clearly established on the 2nd pair and looking good for the most part. Once he and Kuba get used to each other, they'll likely be our shut-down pair. Sarich has been better lately and he and Pratt are a much better 3rd pair right now than we've seen in a while. Richardson played almost exclusively on the PK that I noticed. Overall the night was much more fun than anything we've seen this season. They carried the puck more against the 1-2-2 and were much more effective that way.
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Submitted by goldenbolt on October 15, 2006 - 10:33.
Don't like the style and it is not working. You are correct for the 2 power play goals it was a broken umbrella that scored. I think the Rammer needs to be relieved of duty on the Power Play design. Let's find someone who has something that works. Offense is a problem but looked much better tonight. Defence - Janik is a real surprise much like Ranger was last year. Perfect, of course not, but much better than anticipated. Ranger is playing like a monster and charging the net on offense. What a concept Vinny ---- maybe take a hint. Goal Tending - No complaints a couple of softies but 10 goals in 5 games is nothing. You would think with the power house we could score more than 2 a game. We are not seeing the blowup's of Burke and Grahame. Burke was lit up last night for 4 goals in 7 shots. Notice that Denis stops the play by getting control of the puck if that continues we will be in a lot of games to the end. Denis GA 1.8 Save % .911 we should be 4 - 0 Coaching - Time for a change on the Power Play design. Do we have someone who can put a plan together. Gone are the Andy's and MO's who where not afraid to drive to the net or park themselves in the slot. No R2N only Craig is left doing just fine but the pretty boys are no where to be found. Vincent needs to take the bull by the horns but he seems only interested when there is no one in the slot to contest the position. There needs to be a change in players and scheme. Let Perrin and Craig each have a line. Both have no fear - Give Tarnasky a shot he is big let him create some space. Power plays mean POWER not pretty passing which they still can't do. How about that 5 pass excursion on the 2 on none Friday night between vinny and marty. A shot would have been nice EH!
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My suggestions: If you like the K1000 but not its size, look for an MX. If you want a lighter camera which still has manual control, look for a P30 series. The first batch P30 lacks a cable release socket so if this is important to you look for a later P30 or the P30n/P30t models. Yes they're battery dependent but they're now cheap, lightweight, and have more accurate metering and shutter speeds than a K1000. I've paid as little as 99p for a tidy P30 body in full working order before now, put a roll of slide film in and got 39 perfectly exposed slides back. They are very under-rated.
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I have a couple of machines connected in a LAN network. One of them is the Master Client Machine i.e. it is connected to the network and all software and other stuff which other connected machines may require is stored on this machine. If someone on the other machine wants a particular software, he/she browses this MCM's shared folders and take them.
I don't plan on downloading & installing updates separately on each and every machine every time. Just download them once on the MCM and store them in a folder. These machines should connect to the MCM and search if there are any new updates stored in the updates folder. If so download and install them from that machine.
If it is not possible to do it by changing Windows settings, at least I should be able to do it using some third party softwares and some automated scripts in batch or AutoIt.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama met with activist-actor George Clooney at the White House on Tuesday to discuss U.S. involvement in Sudan ahead of a critical election early next year in Africa's largest nation.
Clooney recently returned from Sudan, and is asking the U.S. and world community to use international pressure and robust diplomacy to prevent violence ahead of the Jan. 9 election. The election is an independence referendum on south Sudan that is likely to split the country in two, and there are fears that the vote could lead to a new outbreak of north-south civil war.
"At a time that is one of the most politicized times ever, this is something that everyone agrees on: If there's some way to get ahead of this and stop it before it happens, we better," Clooney said following his meeting with the president.
Obama and Clooney were joined in their talks by activist John Prendergast, cofounder of the Enough Project, an initiative to end genocide. Prendergast said U.S. involvement in containing violence before the election could be a "game-changer" for the Sudanese people.
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Still Obama has made clear that the U.S. has a deep interest in that future. He met with other world leaders at the United Nations in September to address concerns that preparations for the January vote were lagging, and said the coming months may show whether the Sudanese people "move forward with peace or slip backward into bloodshed."
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With the Federal Reserve's rate cutting driving money-fund yields to razor-thin levels, certificates of deposit are looking like a more attractive place for many investors to stash cash.
"Money-market yields have been trending down," says Connie Bugbee, managing editor of money-fund researcher iMoneyNet Inc. By comparison, "CDs are holding their own."
Both CDs and money-market funds are instruments designed to help investors manage cash -- money they don't want to risk investing in stocks or bonds that could depreciate.
CDs, issued by banks with fixed interest rates and terms ranging from three months to five years, are guaranteed by the federal government up to $250,000 per individual account. In addition to benchmark interest rates at the time they are sold, CD yields reflect banks' desires to raise capital, something many institutions want badly right now.
Money-market funds are mutual funds that maintain their net asset values at $1 per share, while yields fluctuate with prevailing interest rates. Money funds aren't traditionally government guaranteed but have the advantage of allowing investors to buy and sell every day. While money funds are considered very safe, the failure of a prominent fund earlier this year sent jitters through the market -- and prompted the government to temporarily back some assets.
Since then, other funds "are nervous about breaking the buck," says Mike Shenk, senior economist for the Credit Union National Association, a trade group. "They're staying short term and avoiding credit risks. That's driving yields down," beyond even the effect of the Fed's rate cuts.
The average yield on taxable money-market funds is 0.88%, down from a peak of 4.77% in April 2007, according to iMoneyNet. (The latest weekly figure is as of Tuesday and excludes the Fed's most recent rate cut.)
CD rates have also fallen but not as sharply. Three-month "jumbo" CDs, which require deposits of $100,000 or more, yield on average 1.73%, according to Bankrate.com. Smaller "savings" CDs yield 1.52%.
"Banks need to raise capital; it's more cost effective for them to do that from consumer deposits than resort to capital markets," says Bankrate.com's senior financial analyst Greg McBride. "As a result, CD rates are much better than we would have expected, given how far benchmark rates have been cut."
The relationship between money-market and CD yields is the reverse of what it has been over the past several years. Three-month jumbo CDs began offering more attractive yields than money funds this summer. Before that, relatively high interest rates had kept money-market yields higher since 2004.
To investors who want ready access to their cash, attractive CD yields may not matter much. Still, says Mr. McBride, even these investors may be able to find yields that beat those of money-market funds among bank savings and money-market deposit accounts. While rates on many of these rarely budge, investors can find deals among banks hungry for cash if they shop around. Accounts allow withdrawals at customers' discretion with some restrictions and boast government guarantees like CDs.
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