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Carter Tanton's Freeclouds is arguably the long overdue follow-up to his former band Tulsa's 2007 EP I Was Submerged. Tulsa spent two years writing and recording their follow-up to the EP, but it was never released due to label and legal struggles. Discouraged, the band broke up and Carter focused his energy on his role in as a guitar player in Marissa Nadler's band, touring extensively and eventually recording and arranging parts for her recently released self-titled record. His experience working on Nadler's record ultimately served as the catalyst that inspired him to record Freeclouds. In addition to recording and co-writing one song on Marissa Nadler's well-received 2011 album, Carter has recorded albums by George Lewis Jr (Twin Shadow) and Drug Rug among others. He's currently a member of Lower Dens.
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...his indie-seraphim voice is not of this world — set in the same alpine reverb where Jim James of My Morning Jacket lives — while the iridescent bloom of the guitars is a quality flashback to the clean-twang and country-fuzz blend of the 1968-69 Byrds.
Watching him, I honestly believed he was lip-synching as he played, because I just couldn't believe this powerful, forlorn voice was coming out of this slight, unassuming body. He flew through three emotional covers by The Carter Family, The Kinks, and Townes Van Zandt....Carter then introduced his fourth song as a new one — so new that he hadn't even titled it yet....This is the one that really confirmed for me that he's one of the best singer-songwriters in the country today. It was a beautiful song, fittingly about the morning, one that I knew immediately we'd be getting tons of requests to hear again. Then he closed the set...in the same sorrowful voice that just floored me...
Lead singer Carter Tanton has a spectacular voice, and he uses it to the fullest, with long, plunging held notes, wordless accents, and a self-harmonizing technique that lends weightlessness to some of his best melodic phrases. His voice, as much as the songwriting, makes these songs memorable and gives them an ageless quality. Though Tanton could probably sing a recipe for chocolate éclairs and still make it sound good.
He was sleeping in his parents' basement, playing every instrument, going through this breakup,...That was the first time I saw someone make music obsessively. I'd never seen anyone living inside of something, to that level.


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Cournot was a French mathematician and philosopher who created a mathematical model of an economic duopoly.
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As most know on here I had a slight scare when my AFP level had risen from 5 to 9 and had the awful wait to have more blood tests. The anxiety really got to me during these times, and the past 2 days waiting for results were so bad that I got drunk to forget about the worry.
But, yesterday I had the best news ever, my AFP level had fallen to 8. So my oncologist is not concerned and he said I'm just one of these guys that have a normal, high AFP.
My pure seminoma diagnoses was correct :D I was so worried about having to have BEP. I know this is no comfort to some, as they have trials and challenges to face. Hugs and support to those people.
For me, I feel the struggle is temporarily over and I can now enjoy Christmas.
I celebrated last night. Now I'm nursing a horrible hangover.
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Told you so, but seriously great news, I did think you'd been drowning your sorrows as the forum has been quiet without you, but you are a fighter and now you can claim your reward in Lapland. Al Murray says a great cure for hangover is a bacon sandwich. Enjoy.
Hey Rich,
Yes mate I had been "drowning" a little too much. No more alcohol though. For me the hangover cure was lots of slightly burnt toast and Lucozade. Lapland is likely a no go now. Through all these issues and my problems, the relationship has came to an end. With ever up there's a down I guess. I'm happy. I am happier than I have ever been. There's nothing greater than hearing you're Cancer free.
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Centrify today announced Active Directory integration for Oracle, DB2, Sybase, and Informix databases as well as SAP R/3- and NetWeaver-based applications running on UNIX and Linux systems. The company's Centrify DirectControl allows organizations using Microsoft Active Directory to centrally manage user authentication across a wide range of heterogeneous systems and Web-based applications while also controlling access to popular databases and packaged applications such as Oracle and SAP R/3. Users gain single sign-on to all key systems, applications, and databases they require access to, regardless of the organization's underlying IT infrastructure. Centrify DirectControl is available on more than 80 operating system versions and Web applications, and is available now as a beta release. The final release is due to ship in December of this year. Pricing will be announced when final versions are shipped.
Centrify DirectControl's core feature is its ability to enable UNIX, Linux and Mac servers as well as workstations to participate in an Active Directory domain, according to Centrify.
"By extending Microsoft Active Directory's robust authentication capabilities to SAP and non-Microsoft databases, Centrify is helping enterprises centrally and more securely manage access across their entire IT infrastructure," said Peter Houston, senior director of Identity and Access product management at Microsoft. "Solutions such as Centrify DirectControl extend Active Directory's ability to help organizations address key compliance and audit requirements."
DirectControl's support for heterogeneous databases also enhances the Microsoft Identity Integration Server ("MIIS") Management Agents that provision user accounts in leading relational databases from a centralized Active Directory account management infrastructure, according to the company. The combination of the Microsoft and Centrify solutions provides administrators the tools to automate the provisioning of database user accounts and provides the increased, Kerberos-based security of integration with Active Directory. Users can authenticate themselves to the database on a non-Microsoft system with their Active Directory userid and password or get single sign-on using Kerberos from their desktop login to Active Directory.


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Woodlink: As a company purportedly built on the crossroads of technology and the humanities, Apple sure knows how to drag its feet updating a "pro" product like Aperture.
If the photographic arts AREN'T the epitome of a discipline squarely in that crossroad, I dunno what is.
How Apple cannot build a product that can match or exceed Lightroom is beyond me. Too busy raking in royalties from Angry Birds I suppose.
You realize that Pros tend not to upgrade to every new version of software? Apple traditionally has made very little money in the Pro market because most shops would run on the same hardware and software for 5+ years. If you make $ off a workflow you tend to not want to change it and retrain your users every 6 months. Having said that, it's because of the Pro market that Apple survived the slump and is the company they are today. I give them props for keeping the Pro Apps around and for reinventing the Mac Pro.
MPA1: Bye bye Aperture. Now I get LR as part of CC (had to go to the Adobe Dark Side for a collaboration) and your lacklustre update policy means a change going forward.
I've used it since paying $800 for version 1 (remember when software cost that much?!) but now just a legacy to maintain edits from past projects.
It's part of my Creative Cloud subscription. Wasn't at the beginning, but was added before LR5 was released. I still prefer Aperture and CaptureOne though.
warpfoo: Re: Canon being the first to market an AF 35mm SLR:
The EOS 650 beat the 620 to market by a couple of months, but the Pentax ME F beat the 650 by ~5 years. No, it wasn't the best AF, but it was TTL.
And the first Canon AF SLR was not the EOS 650, but the T80
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That's just madness.
What about if you use (I don't play games, but I have children who I forget to feed most of the time.) an emulator on your PC? You might have to buy an even stronger pc down the line to keep up with the specs of the ps4, but with a few hundred megs of illegal software, your pc can already process playstation 2 and 3 disks illegally quite well and without fret of big brother screwing you over... Which supplys a place to play second hand games and eventually once you get sick of their bullshit, Microsoft and Sony's fist hand games after you sell their stupid consol to buy a joystick adapter for your pc.
There's this old joke I love.
Q: How many copys of Microsoft Word did Microsoft sell in China in 2002?
A: One.
You go onto Youtube and there's people showing you how to crack open your game consol and solder shit into it to make it useful and less of an asshole like what they should have done with 3PO between Revenge of the Sith and New Hope.
I have too much rage inside to play video games, so I'm not talking about me, but the only people with the surplus money and time to play these games PROPPERLY are drug dealers and they're already going to jail if they can survive the small arms fire when the cops break their door down.
First Ammedment.
If the content of a game can be classified as free speach, then it must be illegal to charge for it?
How long does a copyright on a game last?
Does some *&^% like Atari still hold the rights to Pong?
When does Pong enter the public domain?
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The Hollywood Reporter -- Christina Applegate is in final negotiations to star opposite Ed Helms in Vacation, New Line's update of the classic comedy movie series.
John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein are directing the project, which plays like a sequel and a reboot of the Chevy Chase franchise that began with the 1983 Harold Ramis-directed National Lampoon's Vacation. That film was written by John Hughes and based on his own experiences on family vacations.
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The new movie follows Rusty, played by Anthony Michael Hall in the original but now portrayed by Helms, as he takes his family on a road trip similar to the one he and his parents and sister took when he was young.
Applegate would play Helm's strong-willed wife who might be losing interest in him.
The movie is Applegate's first since leaving the NBC sitcom Up All Night after it was set to be revamped. The last film she starred in was 2011's Hall Pass, also for New Line. She is shooting Anchorman: The Legend Continues.
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Englewood, NJ, October 3, 2012- NVE Bank has joined Englewood Hospital and Medical Center's fight against breast cancer by serving as a sponsor for the hospital's 14th Annual "Walk for Awareness", which takes place on Sunday, October 21, 2012. NVE has organized a team to walk the 5-K route and will also sell pink ribbons during the month of October at its 12 branch locations, all to raise funds for the Leslie Simon Breast Care and Cytodiagnosis Center at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. "NVE is proud to partner with Englewood Hospital to raise awareness about breast cancer and funds to help fight this deadly disease", said Robert Rey, President and CEO of NVE Bank. "I think all of us know someone who has been touched by this disease" he continued. "Participating in the Walk for Awareness gives us all a chance to really make a difference to our friends and families, our colleagues, our community."
NVE hopes to raise $5,000 through team sponsorships and ribbon sales. The bank has also instituted an October "Jeans Friday" initiative, allowing employees who make a donation to the "Walk for Awareness" to wear jeans to work on Fridays.
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A meeting is scheduled for Wednesday in Fairbanks to allow state workers to ask questions about their new health insurance coverage.
The state in January switched providers for employees and retirees and their families. The change from HealthSmart to Aetna came with a different network of doctors accepted by the program. Aetna representatives are scheduled to attend the meeting, as are representatives of Moda Delta Dental of Alaska, the new dental insurance administrator.
Michele Michaud is the chief health official for the Alaska Division of Retirement and Benefits. She tells the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner there were some problems with the change, including issues with prescription benefits and late arrival of medical identification cards.
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The Department of Education's (DepEd) Bureau of Alternative Learning has released the Official List of Students that have finished and passed the country's national non formal education achievement affirmation examination.
The (Alternative Learning System ) ALS A&E Test formerly the Nonformal Education A&E Test is one of the four components of the ALS A&E (then NFE A&E). It offers the successful test takers certification of learning achievements at two learning levels – Elementary and Secondary – that is comparable to the formal school system. See the list of successful examinees/passers below:
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Passengers in the back seat will be able to stretch out a lot more in the BMW 428 than the Audi TT, due to its greater head- and legroom. The BMW 428 will be a favorite with taller drivers due to its greater front head- and legroom than the Audi TT.
The BMW 428 requires fewer visits to the gas station than the Audi TT, making it more convenient to drive.
There are a lot of factors to consider when calculating the overall cost of a vehicle. The main consideration is Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). Whether you pick the Audi TT or the BMW 428, it's going to cost you about the same. Another consideration is the Destination Charge, which is a standard charge for transporting the vehicle to the dealer from where it's built. The Audi TT carries a much lower Destination Charge than the BMW 428.
The Audi TT is about the same width as the BMW 428. If you go with the Audi TT, you'll have a much easier time finding a large enough space to park than you will with the BMW 428.
With similar torque, the Audi TT and the BMW 428 do an equal job of transmitting their engine's power to their wheels.
The Audi TT has a smaller turning radius than the BMW 428, allowing you to more easily maneuver in and out of tight spots.
The Audi TT has less horsepower than the BMW 428, so it will probably be somewhat slower.
In terms of seating you'll be able to fit the same number of people in both the Audi TT and the BMW 428. With its significantly greater cargo capacity, the Audi TT will be able to haul more equipment or luggage than the BMW 428.
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Joe Miller's campaign alleged possible vote tampering and asked for Alaska State Troopers to be dispatched to elections offices going into today's first count of absentee and questioned ballots in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Monday she was "astounded" at what she called Miller's false allegations of attempts on her side to steal the election.
The Alaska Division of Elections said there was no evidence to support the Miller campaign's claim that a Murkowski ballot observer accessed the state's computerized election management system. Lt. Gov. Craig Campbell, who oversees Alaska elections, said there was no security breach but that he would keep looking into the matter because the "actions of the observer are a little frustrating." He said the observer broke the rules by texting in the ballot room and tried to bring in a bag.
Campbell said there is no need to dispatch state troopers to the elections offices. But the lieutenant governor said he is asking for a state attorney to be there from now on as ballots are validated.
This comes as the Alaska Division of Elections today starts its first count of absentee and questioned ballots. Miller leads Murkowski by 1,668 votes with more than 25,000 votes to be processed. Most are expected to be Republican primary ballots, which include the Miller-Murkowski race. The Alaska Division of Elections isn't saying how many ballots it will get through, but Murkowski campaign spokesman Steve Wackowski said he's heard it will be about 15,000.
The count is to include 496 ballots from the Laurel/Dowling area of South Anchorage that weren't counted on Election Day. Elections workers had uploaded a touch-screen memory card that made it look like the results had been reported but didn't upload the card used to count the ballots, according to the Division of Elections.
More counts are scheduled for Friday and Sept. 8.
Miller told ABC/Washington Post's "Top Line" on Monday that he believes "national folk" are trying to "skew the results" for Murkowski. Miller has complained about the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee sending a lawyer to Alaska to assist Murkowski. His campaign has also suggested that the NRSC was behind phone calls made to absentee voters asking them how they voted. The NRSC has denied that but withdrew its lawyer.
Murkowski said Monday she was "astounded that Mr. Miller continues to make blatantly false accusations that there is something nefarious happening."
The latest drama came as Miller campaign lawyer Tom Van Flein asked for an investigation into possible vote tampering by Mike Roman, an elections consultant the Murkowski campaign brought to Alaska. "We urgently ask for your review and we ask that state Troopers be posted at each regional office until the ballots are secured," Van Flein wrote in the complaint to elections officials.
The Division of Elections investigated and found the most alarming allegation in the Van Flein complaint was unfounded. Van Flein alleged Roman used the state computer at the Division of Elections office in Wasilla and that for 20 minutes "this Murkowski observer was in the state's voter records viewing private information and, we are told, accessed the state's election management system."
Van Flein wrote in the complaint that the state's Diebold voting software "contains vulnerabilities that may allow someone to install malicious software to discount votes." Van Flein suggested that there may need to be a hand count of ballots or an IT computer audit in order to verify that Roman didn't do anything like that.
Elections officials said Roman did request access to the computer with the state's voter registration system but was not allowed. Alaska Division of Elections Director Gail Fenumiai said he would have not been able to compromise the system anyway. "There is no GEMS server in the Wasilla office, so there's no way the state ballot tabulation system was compromised," Fenumiai said.
Van Flein said Monday night that the complaint was verified by Miller election observers on the scene. "We have a statement from an eye witness establishing that the Murkowski observer in fact was using the Division of Elections desk top computer for up to 10 minutes," he said.
Alaska Division of Elections Director Fenumiai disputed that, saying the observer did not use any state computer.
Elections officials said Roman did break the rules by texting from inside the ballot room. He also tried to bring a large bag into the room, against instructions, which Miller campaign lawyer Van Flein described as a potential way to make ballots "disappear."
Lt. Gov. Campbell said Roman's behavior raised questions. "You have an individual who tries to bring a backpack in, is told no, you have a person who tries to get on a network system, you have a person that uses a cell phone, text, iPhone, whatever he was using, is told not to and puts it under the table apparently and tries to use it. And then it runs out of battery and he actually wants us to charge it for him," he said. Murkowski campaign manager John Bitney said Roman's infractions were "unacceptable but relatively minor." He said he's told Roman he needs to follow the rules.
Bitney said Roman wasn't texting voter information; he was texting to the Murkowski campaign about the issue he was raising with elections officials. Bitney said Roman was raising a valid concern about how they validate signatures for people who voted questioned ballots outside of their home precincts. "Your signature verification is actually at the precinct where you should have been voting. ... He wanted to know how they validated the signatures."
Van Flein, who is also former Gov. Sarah Palin's personal attorney, based the complaint on the account of Miller campaign observers who were there at the time. Van Flein alleged Roman was texting while he was reviewing voter information and writing the information down when his iPhone battery died. Van Flein says the state then discovered voter identification information inside his observer handbook.
Bitney said Roman told him that he wasn't writing voting information in his observer handbook. He said he was making a note of the "ballot sequence number," to track where in the process the issue that he was raising with officials happened.
The state confiscated Roman's handbook. Lt. Gov. Campbell and the state elections chief said Monday they haven't verified what Roman wrote, but said he wasn't allowed to leave the room with it.
This isn't the first Miller complaint against a Murkowski election observer. Van Flein last week complained that Murkowski observer Bonnie Jack "used confidential voter information outside the voter observation confines and called a voter to resurrect a disqualified ballot." Alaska Division of Elections Director Fenumiai said Jack did not release confidential information.
Fenumiai said Jack noticed a ballot sent in from someone she knew that listed a residence different from what the state had on its voter registration rolls. Jack left the room and called the person to ask them about the address, Fenumiai said.
Libertarians reject Murkowski
The Alaska Libertarian Party will not consider allowing Lisa Murkowski on its ticket for the U.S. Senate race. The five-member executive committee of the party had an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss it and came to a unanimous decision.
Party Chairman Scott Kohlhaas said Murkowski or her campaign staffers never approached the party about running as a Libertarian but there had been so much speculation party officials decided to act. "Let's put this to rest; it's not happening," Kohlhaas said Monday.
Murkowski supporter Andrew Halcro had approached the Libertarians about Murkowski running on its ticket if she loses the Republican primary to Joe Miller. The Libertarians had indicated at that point they were open to considering the possibility. But Kohlhaas said Monday there is a list of issues on which Murkowski does not fit with the Libertarians. He said they include her 2008 vote in favor of the Bush administration's Wall Street bailout plan, her vote to authorize war with Iraq, and a vote she took in the state Legislature to deny Alaska Permanent Fund dividends to men who are not registered with the Selective Service.
There are no other third-party candidates in the U.S. Senate race. So the Libertarians' decision takes away Murkowski's only chance at making a third party run if she loses the Republican primary after the absentee and questioned votes are counted. Murkowski could run as an independent but only as a write-in candidate.
-- Sean CockerhamPDF: How districts voted in Senate race
Photos: Primary vote counting
By SEAN COCKERHAM


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Via Kirkendall, Carl Icahn talks about litigating in a judicial hellhole against Joe Jamail. NSFW, but a spectacular punchline.
More on Jamail.
Via Kirkendall, Carl Icahn talks about litigating in a judicial hellhole against Joe Jamail. NSFW, but a spectacular punchline.
More on Jamail.
The Houston Chronicle has more on Joe Jamail's defeat of John O'Quinn in the expense-ethics battle earlier detailed in this space (Jul. 19, etc.). Several of the experts quoted seem at pains to minimize the seriousness of O'Quinn's ethical lapse, but there's a good quote at the end from Dallas legal-malpractice lawyer Randy Johnston: "When John O'Quinn goes up against Joe Jamail, I promise you, it isn't all about the money." Why? Because it's about the ego too. (Mary Flood, "Legal trend of leveling suits against fellow litigators likened to cannibalism", Houston Chronicle, Jul. 21)(via ShopFloor).
As we reported in April, trial lawyer John O'Quinn is subject to a potential contempt hearing for allegedly improperly withholding $18.9 million of settlement money from his breast implant clients. It turns out that this wasn't the first mention of the scandal in Overlawyered. In August 1999, Walter reported:
As one of the wealthiest and most successful plaintiff's lawyers ever, Houston's John O'Quinn has been known to call press conferences at which he's leveled charges highly damaging to his opponents' reputations, accusing them (for example) of conspiring to "remain silent, conceal or suppress information" about problems with their products and operations. So what happened June 4 when O'Quinn was himself sued by a group of unhappy former breast-implant clients seeking class-action status against him? As Brenda Jeffreys reported in the June 14 Texas Lawyer, O'Quinn "didn't hesitate before pummeling the class action lawyers with a libel suit" charging the lawyers with "encourag[ing] the news media to disseminate false, slanderous and libelous comments about Plaintiff" — said encouragement consisting of their press release about the lawsuit, and the press conference they were planning that would have explained it further.
Had the lawyers challenging O'Quinn succeeded in holding their press conference, interesting questions might have been aired. Their suit charges that a group of women numbering at least 2,000 were wrongfully overcharged tens of millions of dollars in claimed expenses, and that the firm of O'Quinn and Laminack breached its fiduciary duty to them; it sought a fee forfeiture totaling $580 million. But O'Quinn's firm rushed to court to ask for a temporary restraining order to prevent the lawyers from holding a press event, and on June 7, while a judge was considering that motion, they agreed to a gag order and called off the conference they'd scheduled for that day. The whole process — from the first public notice of the suit to the gag order in hand — had taken only three days. "O'Quinn's quick action may have prevented a firestorm of public attention to the class action suit," writes the Texas Lawyer's Jeffreys. It is not recorded whether any of the defendants O'Quinn has sued have ever tried, let alone succeeded in, such a tactic against him.
Here's an entertaining wrinkle we haven't reported: the case was sent to an arbitrator, because trial lawyer O'Quinn had required his clients to sign a binding arbitration agreement in the event of disputes! (The irony here is far greater than any Judge Bork personal injury suit.)
The Houston Chronicle reports that the three Houston attorneys on the arbitration panel determined in March that O'Quinn's deduction was not authorized by his contracts with his clients, and that they are now deciding damages. The former clients, now represented by Joe Jamail, are asking for O'Quinn to completely disgorge all of his fees, a legitimate possibility under the Burrow v. Arce decision, which would be over half a billion dollars. Arbitration decisions are generally not appealable. It's unclear what has happened to O'Quinn's countersuit against his clients alleging libel. (Mary Flood, "O'Quinn's law clients win round against him", Houston Chronicle, Jun. 9 (h/t W.F.)).
Arbitration is generally quicker than litigation, but O'Quinn seems to have successfully stalled this case for over seven years, not to mention avoid any publicity from it. To date, we are the only media source that has even mentioned the contempt hearing.
It's back on YouTube (via Prof. Childs and Nicole Black).
These guys are nothing like Joe Jamail, but honestly, does this scene make you want to be a jurist?
The notorious Joe Jamail/Edward Carstarphen deposition video (Apr. 8, Apr. 27) has been getting another round of attention thanks to new links from Andrew Sullivan and Dale Carpenter. Among a number of interesting reader comments at the latter site is this from John Steele (excerpt):
…For years now, I've been having my students do dramatic readings of both the famous Jamail depos. The reaction is usually a mixture of laughter and disgust. If anyone wants the two transcripts, shoot me an email….
A belated viewing of the now infamous deposition video (see Apr. 8) stirs memories for Prof. Bainbridge of a few highlights from the suave and distinguished career of zillionaire Houston litigator Joe "You could gag a maggot off a meat wagon" Jamail (Apr. 20). In comments, "Thief" of "Thief's Den" points out that famously civility-challenged lawprof Brian Leiter holds the "Joseph D. Jamail Centennial Chair in Law" at the University of Texas, Austin.
Dignity of the profession dept.: this YouTube video of the famed Texas lawyer and UT benefactor in action is making the rounds (warning: offensive everything). It's discussed by BrainWidth, Froomkin, Childs, Hurt, Kirkendall, Caron, Metafilter, etc. One of those present
The man in the chair is named Edward Carstarphen. [note: a commenter says we erred in initially reporting that Carstarphen was the witness being deposed; see also David Stone, Apr. 11]. For more on Mr. Jamail's record as a paladin of civility, see Apr. 19, 2000 ("gag a maggot off a meat wagon"). Update: link changed to working YouTube location, see Jan. 9, 2007.
Florida class action (Engle), 2003: "A $710 million loose end", Jun. 24; ""Trial lawyers get spanked'", May 24-26; "Court overturns $145 billion Engle award", May 22-23. 2001: "Angles on Engle", May 24. 2000: "'Not even thinking about' fees", Aug. 11-13; "Smoking and responsibility: columnists weigh in", Jul. 28-30; "'Poll: majority disapprove of tobacco fine'", Jul. 24-25; "Florida verdict: more editorial reaction", Jul. 24-25; "Smoking and responsibility: columnists weigh in", Jul. 28-30; Editorial roundup", Jul. 19-20; "Florida tobacco verdict", July 18; "Tobacco: why stop at net worth?" (punitive damage rulings by judge), Jul. 10; "Another Mr. Civility nominee" (Stanley Rosenblatt), Jun. 2-4. 1999: "$49 million lawyers' fee okayed in case where clients got nothing" (secondhand smoke class action), Sept. 28; "Personal responsibility takes a vacation in Miami", Jul. 8; "The Florida tobacco jurors: anything but typical", Wall Street Journal, Jul. 12, 1999.
Tobacco fees reconsidered, 2003: "Senate panel nixes tobacco-fee clawback", May 9-11; "Feds indict former Texas AG", Mar. 8-9; "'Not a pretty picture'", Jan. 10-12. 2002: "Judge overturns $1.3 billion tobacco fee award" (Castano Group), Sept. 27-29; "Welcome Fox News viewers/ readers", Aug. 2-4; "Tobacco fees: one brave judge" (New York), Jul. 30-31 (& Aug. 2-4, Jun. 21-23, Oct. 16-17, Oct. 25-27, 2002; Feb. 11 & Jun. 6-8, 2003; May 11, 2001).
"'Lawyers who won $10 bil. verdict had donated to judge'", Apr. 30, 2003; "A bond too far", Apr. 4-6; "Appeals bonds, again", Apr. 2-3; "Mad County pays out again" ("light" cigarette class action), Mar. 24, 2003.
"'Nanny Bloomberg'" (NYC smoking ban), Oct. 22, 2002.
Tobacco fees, state by state, 2003: "'Law firms in tobacco suit seek $1.2b more'" (Mass.), May 19 (& Jan. 2-3, 2002, Dec. 22, 1999); "Feds indict former Texas AG", Mar. 8-9 (& May 22, Sept. 1-3, 2000; Jun. 21, Aug. 29-30, Nov. 12, 2001, Jul. 15, Jul. 30-31, 2002; Jan. 10-12, 2003). 2002: "Judge overturns $1.3 billion tobacco fee award" (Castano Group, California), Sept. 27-29; "Tobacco fees: one brave judge" (N.Y.), Jul. 30-31 (& Aug. 2-4, Jun. 21-23, 2002, Oct. 16-17, 2002, Feb. 11, 2003, May 11, 2001); "Dewey deserve that much?", Mar. 6; "Mass., Ill., NYC tobacco fees", Jan. 2-3. 2001: "Michigan tobacco fees", Sept. 19-20; "Tobacco-fee tensions" (Fla. resumes investing in tobacco cos.), Jun. 21 (& letter to editor, Jul. 6); "Missouri's tagalong tobacco fees", Jun. 5 (& Sept. 21, 2000); "'Lungren now a paid advocate for his former foes'" (Calif.), Apr. 5; "(Another) 'Monster Fee Award for Tobacco Fighters'" (Calif. cities and counties), Mar. 21-22; "Reclaiming the tobacco loot", Mar. 15; "Lawyers get tobacco fees early", Mar. 5; "Tobacco arbitrator: they all know whose side I'm on", Feb. 16-19. 2000: "Beehive of legal activity: Utah tobacco fees", Nov. 6; "South Carolina tobacco fees: how to farm money", Oct. 25; "Gore amid friendly crowd (again)" (Fla.), Apr. 12 (& "Dershowitz's Florida frolic?", Jul. 17; also see Dec. 8-10, 2000, Aug. 8-9, 2000, Dec. 27-28, 1999); "Sooner get rich" (Oklahoma), Jun. 7; "'Lawyers' tobacco-suit fees invite revolt'" (Ohio), May 23; "North Carolina (& Kentucky & Tennessee) tobacco fees", May 2; "Connecticut AG has 'no idea' whether lawyers he hired are overcharging", Feb. 3 (& update Feb. 16); "Pennsylvania tobacco fees: such a bargain!", Jan. 10 (& Oct. 24, 2002). 1999: "Maryland's kingmaker" (Peter Angelos), Oct. 19 (& Dec. 9, 1999, Oct. 16-17, 2000, June 21, 2001, Apr. 10, 2002); "Illinois tobacco fees", Oct. 16-17; "My dear old tobacco-fee friends" (Kansas AG, like Connecticut's, gave tobacco business to her old law firm), Oct. 11 (see also Sept. 21, 2000); "Boardwalk bonanza" (N.J.), Oct. 1-3; "News judgment", Aug. 6; "Puff, the magic fees" (Wisc.), Jul. 13.
Tobacco-fee tycoons, 2003: "Class action lawyer takes $20 million from defendant's side" (Joseph Rice), Mar. 15-16; "'Not a pretty picture'", Jan. 10-12; 2002: "Rumblings in Mississippi" (Scruggs, Minor), Oct. 9-10 (& Nov. 6); "Judge overturns $1.3 billion tobacco fee award" (Castano Group), Sept. 27-29. 2001: "Settle a dispute today" (O'Quinn vs. Jamail), Sept. 18; "Ness monster sighted in Narragansett Bay" (Rhode Island, Ness Motley), Jun. 7 (& see Oct. 6-9, 2000, July 17, 2000, Nov. 1, 1999). 2000: "Punch-outs, Florida style" (Robert Montgomery), Nov. 17-19 (& see Aug. 8, April 12, 2000; Aug. 21-22, 1999); "Friend to the famous" (Williams Bailey), Oct. 12; "Senator Lieberman: a sampler" (voted to curb tobacco fees), Aug. 8-9; "Trial lawyer candidates" (Minnesota's Ciresi), Jul. 6 (& update Sept. 15-17; loses primary bid); "'Lawyers' tobacco-suit fees invite revolt'" (USA Today editorial), May 23. 1999: "Who's afraid of Dickie Scruggs?", Dec. 2; "Maryland's kingmaker" (Peter Angelos), Oct. 19 (& Dec. 9, 1999, Oct. 16-17, 2000, June 21, 2001); "The Marie Antoinette school of public relations" (tobacco lawyers pose for photo shoot on their yachts, horse farms, etc.), Aug. 21-22; and see lawyers' campaign contributions.
Humor: "Dave Barry on tobacco settlement, round III", Sept. 16-17, 2002; "Dave Barry on tobacco suits, round II", March 16, 2000; "Dave Barry on federal tobacco suit", Oct. 26, 1999; "Cartoon that made us laugh" ("….We can't take those off the market! Dangerous products are a gold mine for the government!"), Jan. 21-23, 2000.
Terms of state tobacco settlement, 2003: "Appeals bonds, again", Apr. 2-3. 2002: "We did it all for the public health, cont'd" (Alabama devotes more proceeds to tobacco farmers than to smoking reduction), Aug. 22; "Tobacco settlement funds go to tobacco promotion" (N.C.), Jun. 28-30; "'Bush budget surprise: $25M for tobacco suit'" (Martha Derthick, Up in Smoke), Feb. 20. 2001: "Tobacco-fee tensions" (Fla. resumes investing in tobacco cos.), Jun. 21 (& letter to editor, Jul. 6); "Reclaiming the tobacco loot", Mar. 15; "Push him into a bedroom, hand him a script" (Bill Clinton testimonial for tobacco lawyers), Mar. 9-11; "Lawyers get tobacco fees early", Mar. 5; "Tobacco arbitrator: they all know whose side I'm on", Feb. 16-19; "Safer smokes vs. the settlement cartel", Feb. 7-8. 2000: "Missouri tobacco fees", Sept. 21, 2000; "Tobacco- and gun-suit reading" (Stuart Taylor, Jr.), Aug. 21-22, 2000; "Challenging the multistate settlement", Jul. 17, 2000. 1999: "'Few Settlement Dollars Used for Tobacco Control'", Dec. 27-28; "Tobacco bankruptcies, and what comes after" (state gov'ts, trial lawyers would become cigarette producers), Dec. 13; "How the tobacco settlement works" (the more cigarettes sold, the more money states get), Nov. 2; "Addictive tobacco money" (states sued over alleged burden on their taxpayers — so are they using the proceeds to cut taxes?), Sept. 7; "Collusion: it's an AG thing" (terms of settlement cartelize cigarette industry), Jul. 29. Also see Walter Olson, "Puff, the magic settlement", Reason, Jan. 2000.
"'Tough tobacco laws may not deter kids'", Jun. 7-9, 2002; "Blind newsdealer charged with selling cigarettes to underage buyer", Sept. 16, 1999.
"Sin-suit city" (Banzhaf), Jun. 10, 2002.
"Ad model sues tobacco company", May 1-2, 2002.
"Australian party calls for banning smoking while driving", Jun. 3-4, 2002; "'Positive nicotine test to keep student from prom'" (over-18 student, off-premises consumption), Apr. 26-28, 2002 (& update May 10-12: school backs down); "Judge orders woman to stop smoking at home", Mar. 27-28, 2002; "'Smokers told to fetter their fumes'" (smoking in homes that bothers neighbors), Nov. 26, 2001; "Utah lawmakers: don't smoke in your car" (when kids present), Oct. 5-7, 2001; "Apartment smoking targeted", Jan. 3, 2000.
"Australian party calls for banning smoking while driving", Jun. 3-4, 2002 (document retention case); "International tobacco suits: not quite such easy pickings", Feb. 1-3, 2002; "'Saudi Arabia finally gets tough on terrorism!'", Dec. 10, 2001; "More from Judge Kent" (Bolivian suit), Aug. 3, 2001; "Smoker's suit nixed in Norway", Dec. 18-19, 2000; "They call it distributive justice" (government of Saudi Arabia sues tobacco cos.), Nov. 16, 2000; "Spreading to Australia?", Dec. 29-30, 1999; "Israeli court rejects cigarette reimbursement suit", Oct. 7, 1999.
"Veeps ATLA could love" (Durbin, D-Ill., as guardian of tobacco lawyers' fees), July 7, 2000 (& see Apr. 25, 2002).
"Competing interests: none declared". "The unconflicted Prof. Daynard", April 21-23, 2000 (& update: letters, Jan. 2001, June 2001; Aug. 2, Dec. 17, 2001).
Federal tobacco suit: our views: "'Bush budget surprise: $25M for tobacco suit'", Feb. 20, 2002; "Judge throws out half of federal tobacco suit", October 2, 2000; "Good news out of Washington…" (House votes to cut off funding for suit), June 21, 2000 (& update June 26: action reversed, funds approved); "Feds: dissent on smoking = racketeering", Sept. 23, 1999; "Guest column in Forbes by Overlawyered.com's editor", Oct. 25, 1999.
"Prison litigation: 'Kittens and Rainbows Suites'" (cellmate's smoking violates rights), Jan. 11-13, 2002.
Boeken v. Philip Morris: "Boeken record", June 19, 2001; "$5,133.47 a cigarette", Jun. 11, 2001; "Tobacco plunder in Los Angeles" ($3 billion damage award), Jun. 8-10, 2001.
Federal tobacco suit: others' views: "Columnist-fest" (Jacob Sullum), Jun. 22-24, 2001; "Blatant end-runs around the democratic process" (former Labor Secretary Robert Reich), Jan. 15-16, 2000; "Dave Barry on federal tobacco suit" (plus novelist Tom Clancy's critique), Oct. 26, 1999; "'This wretched lawsuit'" (Jonathan Rauch in National Journal ), Oct. 13, 1999; "Feds' tobacco shakedown: 'A case of fraud'", Sept. 29, 1999 (roundup of editorial pages); "Feds as tobacco pushers" (columnist Andrew Glass recalls encouragement of smoking in U.S. Army), Sept. 24, 1999; "Hurry up, before the spell breaks" (leading plaintiff's lawyer wants feds to sue fast since public losing interest), Sept. 24, 1999.
Regulation by litigation: "Tobacco- and gun-suit reading" (law prof Michael Krauss), Aug. 21-22, 2000; "Convenient line at the time" (tobacco is unique, said state attorneys general — sure), May 15; "Stuart Taylor, Jr., on Smith & Wesson deal" ("Guns and Tobacco: Government by Litigation"), Apr. 11, 2000; "Arbitrary confiscation, from Pskov to Pascagoula" (Michael Barone in U.S. News on threat to rule of law), Jul. 24-25, 1999; "Guns, tobacco, and others to come" (Peter Huber in Commentary on the new mass-tort cases as "show trials"), Jul. 20; "'A de facto fourth branch of government'" (prominent trial lawyer Wendell Gauthier's view of plaintiff bar's role), Jul. 4, 1999.
"Dewey deserve that much?", Mar. 6, 2002; "Health plans rebuffed in bid to sue cigarette makers", Jan. 11, 2000.
"Terrorists, American business execs compared", Sept. 28-30, 2001.
"Columnist-fest", Jun. 22-24, 2001 (Amity Shlaes on asbestos synergy case); "Best little forum-shopping in Texas" (state's Medicaid suit got filed in Texarkana, contributing $6.1 million to local economy), Aug. 27, 1999.
"The Kessler agenda" (former FDA chief calls for cigarette ban), Jan. 12-14, 2001; "Kessler rebuked" (FDA claim of authority over tobacco), March 27, 2000.
"Updates" (baby Castano suit nixed in N.Y.), Dec. 26-29, 2000.
"Wal-Mart's tobacco exposure", Sept. 25-26, 2000; "The Wal-Mart docket" (sued over tobacco sales), July 7, 2000.
"Another billion, snuffed" (antitrust lawsuit between snuffmakers), May 10, 2000.
"Hollywood special: 'The Insider'", Mar. 30, 2000.
"Because they still had money" (Hausfeld's price-fixing suit), Mar. 2, 2000.
"Tobacco lawyers' lien leverage", Feb. 29, 2000.
"Feds' tobacco hypocrisy, cont'd: Indian 'smoke shops'", Jan. 25, 2000; "Do as we say, please" (Indian tribes, after profiting immensely from tax-free smoke shops, turn around and sue suppliers), Jul. 14, 1999.
"The joy of tobacco fees", Jan. 20, 2000.
"Calif. state funds used to compile 'enemies list'", Jan. 5, 2000.
"'Trial lawyers on trial'" (Trevor Armbrister, Reader's Digest), Dec. 23-26, 1999.
"Philadelphia Inquirer Tech.life: 'Web Winners'" (this page is recommended), Dec. 15, 1999.
"Ohio tobacco-settlement booty", Nov. 8, 1999.
"Public by 2-1 margin disapproves of tobacco suits", Nov. 5-7, 1999.
"Not-so-Kool omen for NAACP suit", Nov. 1, 1999.
"Minnesota to auction seized cigarettes", Oct. 21, 1999.
"Reform stirrings on public contingency fees", Oct. 15, 1999.
"Big guns" (tobacco example shaped gun litigation), Oct. 5-6, 1999.
"Plus extra damages for having argued with us" ("lesson of tobacco": you can get punished for defending your product), Aug. 19, 1999.
"'Settlement bonds': are guns next?" (how Wall Street finances expropriation of industries), Aug. 5, 1999.
Do the tobacco wars that began in the mid-1990s represent an unprecedented triumph for public health? Are they an inevitable response to legislative gridlock on smoking policy? Or are they our legal system's own updated version of the Gilded Age scandals that brought American government into disrepute a century ago, siphoning billions of dollars of publicly obtained money into the hands of politically connected attorneys? Commentaries on Overlawyered.com (above) may help you decide. In the mean time, the following links offer a way into the wider tobacco controversy:
Anti-tobacco groups, most of which are supportive of litigation as well as other coercive government actions aimed at curtailing tobacco sale and use, are well represented on the web. They include Tobacco.org, federally funded antitobacco activist Stanton Glantz's Tobacco Control Archives, Americans for Non-Smokers' Rights, Action on Smoking and Health, and the American Council on Science and Health. Tobacco.org's links list is especially comprehensive. The empire associated with Prof. Richard Daynard, participant in tobacco suits, oft-quoted expert, and professor at Northeastern U., includes the Tobacco Products Liability Project and Tobacco Control Resource Center, as well as the State Tobacco Information Center. The Castano Group, a vast joint venture of trial lawyers cooperating to file tobacco class actions, maintains a website that is distinctly uninformative (unless you're a lawyer/member or a cooperative pressie).
Relatively neutral sites include Yahoo Full Coverage.
Critics of the anti-tobacco crusade often note that it curtails individual liberty, freedom of contract and freedom of association. As part of its Breaking Issues series ("Fining Smokers"), Reason magazine includes a list of online articles skeptical of the government's role in the tobacco field, while Reason senior editor Jacob Sullum is the author of 1998's For Your Own Good : The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health. At the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute, Robert Levy has criticized "The Tobacco Wars", written that "States Share Blame for Tobacco Lawyers' Greed", and called tobacco settlements "Dangerous to Your Liberty"; the state Medicaid suits, he argues, are "Snuffing Out the Rule of Law". Cato's Jerry Taylor describes the battle as "The Pickpocket State vs. Tobacco". "The Anti-Tobacco Crusade" by Joseph Kellard, Capitalism magazine, March 1998, argues from a viewpoint supportive of Ayn Rand's Objectivism. In Colorado, the Independence Institute maintains a Center for Personal Freedom run by Linda Gorman which draws the connection to other paternalist crusades on issues like drinking, seatbelt use and mandatory helmet laws. The Heritage Foundation's Todd Gaziano makes the case that a proposed federal lawsuit against tobacco companies is "elevating politics over law" (July 30, 1999 Backgrounder). Overlawyered.com's editor has taken exception to the retroactivity of the crusade, to its manipulative treatment of children, and to the hardball or demagogic tactics used in the Castano and Engle cases. Rep. Chris Cox (R-Calif.) delivered a notable critique of the tobacco litigation at a Congressional hearing held Dec. 10, 1997 (no longer online).
An extensive site offering an aggressive defense of smoking and smokers, along with a large collection of links, is Forces International ("Fight Ordinances and Restrictions to Control and Eliminate Smoking").
July 19-21 — Disabled lap dancing just the start. Our recent item (Jul. 16-17) on demands for accessibility in lap-dancing facilities reminded an alert Australian reader of a recent case from his country in which a disabled complainant filed charges against the proprietors of a "swinging house party", which was found in unrelated proceedings to be operating as an unlicensed brothel, for excluding her because of her status as a wheelchair user. (Ball v Morgan & Anor [2001] FMCA 127)(adult content warning, though it's a court opinion). (DURABLE LINK)
July 19-21 — Stolen silence? Via WSJ OpinionJournal Best of the Web Today: "The London Sun reports that Nicholas Riddle, who heads a firm that owns the copyright to the late John Cage's composition '4' 33″ '–which consists of four minutes, 33 seconds of silence–is suing 'pop guru' Mike Batt, whose new band, the Plantes, has just released an album with a track called 'A One Minute Silence.' Riddle alleges that Batt violated Cage's copyright. 'John always said the duration of his piece may be changed, so the Planets' piece doesn't escape by virtue of its shorter length,' Riddle tells the paper. 'We want our royalties.'" Oh please, let this be a Monty Python skit and not an actual lawsuit (Thomas Whitaker, "Silence is old 'un", The Sun (London), Jul. 18). (DURABLE LINK)
July 19-21 — Enron's other helpers. If Arthur Andersen & Co. is going to get run out of business for approving Enron's dubious financial deals, why is its outside law firm, Vinson & Elkins, unlikely to face similarly devastating consequences for approving and helping structure the same deals? Well, one reason is that accountants are conceived of as having broad obligations to the general public, while lawyers mostly aren't. Rather convenient for the lawyers, don't you think? Julie Hilden makes a valiant effort to defend the double standard as a principled one ("Scummery Judgment", Slate, Jun. 21). (& see letter to the editor, Oct. 23) (DURABLE LINK)
July 18 — "Family of boy injured by leopard may sue". "In April, Eric River, 11, sneaked into the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park with friends, tried to feed and pet a snow leopard, got 10 deep lashes to his face, arm and back, and received 500 stitches. Now, three months later, his mother, Terry Wells, is threatening to sue the zoo's owner, Onondaga County, for failing to properly secure and police the zoo after hours." River and three friends managed to get into the zoo by scaling one 8-foot fence, squeezing through a gap in another, and scaling a 4-foot fence before finally approaching the leopard in its cage. (Teri Weaver, Syracuse Post-Standard, Jul. 17) (see Sept. 21, 1999). (DURABLE LINK)
July 18 — "Trauma center reopens doors". The only trauma center in southern Nevada has reopened, "ten days after a state malpractice insurance crisis forced its closure". (Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul. 14; Joelle Babula, "University Medical Center: Trauma center closing", Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul. 2; Steve Kanigher, "Trauma cases to shift to nearest hospital", Las Vegas Sun, Jul. 2; William Booth, "Las Vegas Trauma Center Closes as Doctors Quit", Washington Post, Jul. 4; Las Vegas Review-Journal, coverage at a glance). Crisis continues in Mississippi: Reed Branson, "Doctors shutting practices amid epidemic of lawsuits", GoMemphis.com, Jul. 11; John Porretto, "Exodus of doctors causing crisis for moms-to-be in Mississippi", AP, Jul. 11. Texas: Mary Ann Roser, "Doctors at a crossroads", Austin American-Statesman, Jun. 17. (DURABLE LINK)
July 18 — "Edwards' fund raising a strong suit". Why are we not surprised that he's vaulted ahead of some better-known Democrats on the money-raising front? "Reports released Monday show that two fund-raising committees controlled by Edwards raised a combined $2.6 million in the second quarter of this year and that the North Carolina Democrat now has more than $4.4 million in the bank. … A News & Observer analysis of Edwards' PAC money showed that more than 77 percent of it came from lawyers or law firms." (John Wagner, Raleigh News & Observer, Jul. 16). All five of the top contributors to the Edwards campaign are plaintiff's law firms, the list topped by Girardi & Keese of Los Angeles and Baron & Budd of Dallas, both familiar to longtime readers of this site. (David Brown, "The Candidate", The Recorder, Jun. 14). (DURABLE LINK)
July 16-17 — By reader acclaim: quadriplegic sues strip club over wheelchair access. Edward Law of Orlando, Fla., who is quadriplegic, "has sued a strip club, charging that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act because the lap dance room does not have wheelchair access." In addition to suing the Wildside Adult Sports Cabaret of West Palm Beach, Law has also recently sued a second strip clup, "an Orlando restaurant and a Daytona Beach Harley-Davidson motorcycle shop"; we don't know yet whether to assign his filing activities to this category. ("Orlando quadriplegic sues strip club over wheelchair access", AP/Palm Beach Post, Jul. 15)(for more on lap-dance handicap accommodation, see Sept. 27-28, 2000). (DURABLE LINK)
July 16-17 — Mercury in dental fillings. For well over a century dentists have used a mixture of metals including mercury in standard tooth fillings, and both the U.S. Public Health Service and Consumers Union have declared that patients have no grounds for alarm that the fillings pose a risk to health. That hasn't convinced a small if longstanding body of dissenters who hold that exposure to even trace amounts of the heavy metal must be having toxic effects on users' bodies. The dispute has lately turned litigious, with Van Nuys, Calif. personal injury and environmental attorney Shawn Khorrami spearheading several suits which accuse the American Dental Association and dentists of wrongly promoting the material, and the ADA striking back with a defamation suit. (Doug Bandow, "Killer teeth?", Cato Institute Dailies, Jun. 28; Raymond J. Keating, "Lawsuits and Legislation Causing Pain for Dentists", Small Business Survival Committee, Jun. 7; AltCorp (anti-mercury testing firm); Stephen Barrett, "The Mercury Amalgam Scam", QuackWatch.com, last revised Apr. 23; search QuackWatch on "amalgam"; American Dental Association on ADA v. Khorrami). (DURABLE LINK)
July 16-17 — Hizzoner's divorce, settled at last. "Anyone who's been appalled at the depths to which the parties stooped in this Hanover/Giuliani split just hasn't been divorced from a millionaire often enough. As big splashy divorces go, this was no uglier than most." (Dahlia Lithwick, "Hats Off to Rudy", Slate, Jul. 12). (DURABLE LINK)
July 16-17 — "Spanking Client Not Legitimate Trial Prep Tactic". Just plain bizarre: U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny has ruled that an attorney's malpractice insurer is not obliged to pay out in a case in which Derby, Ct. attorney Milo J. Altschuler allegedly took a client across his lap and spanked her before a court appearance. "The woman claimed Altschuler, before removing her panties and stockings, told her he needed to spank her so the judge didn't think she was lying." Judge Chatigny ruled that the spanking did not constitute the rendering of professional services, although Altschuler "acknowledged that he used [threats of spanking] in representing more than a dozen other clients to make them 'more afraid of him than they would be of the prosecutor.'" (Scott Brede, Connecticut Law Tribune, Jul. 15). (DURABLE LINK)
July 15 — "Morales' $1 Million Tobacco Fee Under Fire". "Former Attorney General Dan Morales told lawyers that a $1 million contribution to his political campaign fund was a condition for joining his anti-tobacco legal team, a Houston lawyer testified in a newly released document." In a 1999 interview that has only now been made public in court proceedings, an assistant to Texas Attorney General John Cornyn questioned Houston attorney Wayne Fisher, a former president of the State Bar and a former president of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, under oath. Fisher "said Morales outlined two separate requirements during a meeting he had with the then-attorney general in 1995. Fisher said one condition of employment was to 'front' the legal expenses and a second was to 'commit to contribute $1 million to (Morales') political campaign — to (Morales') political campaign fund, as I recall it.'" Fisher "chose not to join Morales' legal team"; he also "recalled wondering later if the meeting was a 'sting operation.'" Fisher's account seems to buttress earlier recollections by noted plaintiff's attorney Joe Jamail, who also did not join the state's team (see Sept. 1-3, 2000, May 22, 2000, June 21, 2001, Aug. 29-30, 2001, Nov. 12, 2001).
The five law firms eventually hired by Morales are all "major contributors to Democratic candidates and causes". Michael Tigar, attorney for the five, denies that any of their tobacco fees or expenses went to Morales but concedes that "some was paid to Austin political consultant George Shipley. Tigar said all the payments to Shipley were first reviewed by University of Texas law professor Charles Silver, who was retained by the lawyers as an ethics adviser." (Clay Robison, Houston Chronicle, Jul. 12). (DURABLE LINK)
July 15 — Paper currency should accommodate blind, suit argues. "The American Council of the Blind, which seeks to improve conditions for the visually impaired, has sued the Treasury Department to force its way into the currency revamping process. …The group is not promoting a specific change that would help blind and sight-impaired Americans sift through their money, but hopes the government will study an array of options that would be helpful. A major step could be offering denominations in different colors or sizes with large-print features, like many other countries, [Ralph] Brunson said. Braille and textures also are possibilities, although the markings are prone to wearing off. 'We did not specify a particular option because, primarily, at this point we're trying to get the dialogue going,' Brunson said." (Mark Babineck, "Blind Group Sues U.S. over Currency", AP/FindLaw, Jul. 1). (DURABLE LINK)
July 15 — New civil rights target: "linguistic profiling". With assistance from a Ford Foundation grant, the National Fair Housing Alliance and Stanford education and linguistics professor Dr. John Baugh have launched a project "to study the impact of linguistic profiling on housing discrimination. This summer, Baugh will track the instances of bias that the housing markets show toward speakers of non-standard English over the telephone. Baugh says speakers who do not 'sound white' often are discriminated against over the telephone. 'Even though the courts are reasonably well equipped to prosecute cases of face-to-face discrimination,' says Dr. Baugh, 'they have a hard time understanding and applying the law to linguistic profiling, and that's where this research will help.'" "National Study on Linguistic Profiling in Housing Announced", Jun. 26)(via Scott Norvell, FoxNews.com, Jul. 1). (DURABLE LINK)
July 12-14 — Welcome Salon.com readers, Bill O'Reilly listeners. We're cited in Janelle Brown's excellent article on parental lawsuits against teachers ("L is for Lawsuit", Jul. 12) which mentions our subpage on overlawyered schools. And our editor is appearing today (Fri.) on Bill O'Reilly's popular radio show to discuss the case of a New York City jury's award to a woman who lay down on the subway tracks (see Jun. 26-27), along with other cases featured on our personal- responsibility subpage. Update: and welcome BBC-5 listeners, for whom our editor taped an interview arising from the Salon piece (DURABLE LINK)
July 12-14 — Credibility up in smoke? Environmentalist groups have strenuously denied that their use of litigation to stall road building, logging and the construction of firebreaks worsened this year's raging wildfires out West (see Jul. 1-2). But it turns out that a recent General Accounting Office report, much cited by the enviro groups to show that they don't sue often, actually may show nothing of the sort. "Environmental appeals delayed 48 percent of the [Forest Service]'s fire-suppression projects in fiscal 2001 and 2002, thereby stalling efforts to clear the brush and small trees that fuel the catastrophic wildfires plaguing the West, according to an internal Forest Service report obtained by The Washington Times. The report, slated for release [Thursday], found that 155 of the agency's 326 plans to log overgrown, high-risk national forests were stymied by appeals. In Arizona and New Mexico, sites of some of this summer's worst wildfires, that figure rose to 73 percent, and climbed to 100 percent in the Pacific Northwest". (Valeria Richardson, "Forest Service Says Activists Played Role in Fires," Washington Times, Jul. 11; Kimberley A. Strassel, "Truth Under Fire ", Wall Street Journal/ OpinionJournal.com, Jul. 11). (& see letter to the editor, Oct. 23) (DURABLE LINK)
July 12-14 — Read the label, then ignore it if you like. "Two carpet installers who admit they read the label of an adhesive they used, admit they understood the adhesive was flammable and should not be used inside, used it inside anyway, caused an explosion, were burned badly, sued, and won $8 million dollars." (Phil Trexler, "2 installers get millions in blast suit", Akron Beacon Journal, Jul. 10) (link and description via MedPundit, Jul. 10). (DURABLE LINK)
July 12-14 — Financial scandals: legislate in haste. The "chief sponsor of the House [financial-reform] legislation, Republican Michael G. Oxley of Ohio … complained that some aspects of the Sarbanes bill appeared to be turning into 'a gravy train' for trial lawyers." (Richard A. Oppel Jr., "Senate Backs Tough Measures to Punish Corporate Misdeeds", New York Times, Jul. 11). House Republicans are particularly critical of provisions which, in line with a long-term goal of the plaintiff's bar, increase the time permitted to bring securities fraud lawsuits. The Mobile Register editorially warns that a number of ideas emanating from the Senate "would be a huge boon to voracious plaintiffs' attorneys. And the last thing the nervous stock market needs, now or ever, is to worry about companies being ruined by ever-more creative lawsuits whose practical effect would do far more to enrich the lawyers than to protect the interests of individual investors." ("Bush right, Shelby not, on business reform" (editorial), Mobile Register, Jul. 10). "Robert Musil" has some thoughts on the newly popular idea of requiring CEOs to certify their company's financial filings on penalty of perjury (Jul. 7). And before assuming that it was management malfeasance alone that destroyed the market value of such companies as WorldCom and Adelphia, it would be wise to note that Europe, without benefit of major scandal, has managed to see most of the value of its telecom stocks evaporate since the sectoral bubble burst, with historic enterprises like Deutsche Telekom, France Télécom and Royal KPN of the Netherlands losing 80 or 90 percent of their value, and Britain's BT doing not much better (Edmund L. Andrews, "Europe Shares Pain of the Fall in Phone Stocks", New York Times, Jul. 11). And see Steve Chapman, "Real and phony fixes for corporate corruption", Chicago Tribune, Jul. 11). (DURABLE LINK)
July 12-14 — "Court Tosses 'Sopranos' Suit". Following an appellate court's ruling against them, the Italian-American Defense Association has dropped its suit against HBO charging that "The Sopranos" offends the dignity of Italian Americans in supposed violation of the Illinois Constitution's "individual dignity" clause. Score one for free speech (N.Y. Daily News, Jul. 2)(see Apr. 6-8, 2001). (DURABLE LINK)


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Knowing that Saturday's coming gets me through every week, so yes, I'm looking forward to next week...hope we can show progress...
Knowing that Saturday's coming gets me through every week, so yes, I'm looking forward to next week...hope we can show progress...
Lose 1 game?!!!! Are you F'ing kidding me?
There is and always will be a lack of foresight in the football fan that I always seem to forget. Regardless of result, we still get to watch Michigan play this weekend.
If we lose by 40 its better than watching baseball and pretending to be excited.
If we lose by 40 its better than waking up, rolling over, checking for a TomVH post about recruiting and being disappointed.
If we lose by 40, its better than anything the off season brings.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the game. Yes, I'm weary of losing, but who isn't? Maybe the offense shows up with some consistency and we drop 50 on Illinois. This team is too much of a Jekyll and Hyde act to not be in the least intrigued to how we show up.. Heres hoping we have a resounding stomp of those illini.. (anyone care to explain WTF an Illini is?)
Seems like their logo used to have an indian in it.
Long story short: Group of indian tribes.
If we lose by 40 it is NOT better than spending the day shopping with my wife.
If we lose by 40 it is NOT better than being kicked in the balls by Zoltan.
If we lose by 40 it is NOT better than just about anything I can think of when we know that this should not be happening regardless of the excuse du jour because we still f'in lost by 40 and it hurts. Hurts for the players and hurts for the fans.
One of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies has a line where there is an indian character crying. He's asked why and he answers, "Because he (Eastwood character) cannot". We rant because the institution that is Wolverine Football cannot.
Whoa whoa whoa..
You would rather spend the day with your wife. Shopping. For things you probably don't need. Than watch Michigan play?
Jesus.. I thought I was in the dumps after Saturday, you my friend are literally the most unhappy fan on the planet.
Take it or leave it
(High-fives bros in audience.)
to the game next weekend and see improvement. I can imaging that the team is very disappointed in themselves and prepare harder and smarter. I'm sure they don't want a repeat of last years performance in the last half of the season.
I'm sad to say that I haven't been back to the Big House since 2006. My father and I (both alumni) scheduled this trip back for the Illinois game months ago and I've been stoked about it, right up until about 11:30 last night. Now I'm really bummed. I love Ann Arbor and Michigan football with everything I've got but for the first time ever, I'm really not looking forward to this weekend. Its a long trip for us and a lot of work to get there and I'm going to be even more frustrated if we come home with another loss. My emotions cannot take it. Please, Angry Michigan Football Hating God, please have mercy on my soul.
The new press boxes look fantastic and the stadium is louder...prepare to be wowed
Hey thanks for that pick-me-up! I appreciate it. I'll man up on the flight up and be ready to cheer myself hoarse. I just never imagined feeling like this about Michigan football.
Long trip up for my dad and I this weekend too. Win or lose, spending time with the guy who brought me into the stadium at age 2 and kept bringing me back until I was 18 is something to look forward to and be happy about.
I honestly just don't know when the cavalry comes in and that improvement arrives, would love to see it. Just been waiting on that corner for a while.
I'm still looking forward to the opportunity to watch my team live. The offseason is excruciatingly long, and seeing football being played every week is a privilege we forget we have...remember summer?
That being said, I think a lot of us were crushed not because we lost, but how we lost this weekend.
Either way, I'll be there cheering in full force. Defense, please surprise me.
Win would be huge. Illinois is the surprise team everyone is talking about. Great opportunity to turn things positive at a time when it is sorely needed.
Sadly, we have been saying this the past 3 games.
Well I'll tell you what . I sure am excited for another weekend i can go out to the bar and scream with a hundred other michigan fans for a team i love . And drink some good draft beer
The way the players respond to Saturday's game will have great significance. All year the team has said specifically that this is not 2009. Well, it's time to act. If we come out flat, then I see big changes on the horizen. And I don't think many people here would disagree with me.
That is an interesting point, but probably not in the way you meant it . . . I agree that seeing the defense come out flat (if the defense could get any worse) could spell doom for someone. But on the offensive side of the ball, there's not much else the offense could have done last night. They had two very tough games against MSU and Iowa (too many turnovers but still moved the ball against both teams) but they smoked PSU's defense, especially in the second half. I will be very sorry if the offense comes out flat - to me, it may mean that they've gotten fed up with carrying the load game after game. There's only so much that Denard and, yes, Rodriguez can do. I include Rodriguez because he's the mastermind behind the offense. Maybe his greatest fault is/was relying on the wrong people to run the defense. But that's not the crux of my post.
Im looking forward to it. If we can come out and score on our first possession i think we have a chance against ILL, but if we come up and do the same terrible play calling we did to start out PSU game then we are cooked.. That set the tone for the first half of the PSU game.
Looking realistically, we shouldn't have a problem beating purdue, but at this point i wouldn't put anything past our team.. The PSU game had the same impact the ILL game did last year, and it wouldn't surprise me if we lose every game the rest of the season.
If we make a bowl, i don't think there is any point to firing RR, because our offense can score on anyone, but something is gonna happen with our Defensive coaches im sure.
It is critical that we score on our first drive. Critical. This is not an offense built to play from behind. It is an offense built to play ahead or even. We basically have to assume that the opponent is going to score a couple touchdowns in the first quarter, so in order for us to do our thing offensively, we need to match that and set the tone.
Which makes the Vince Smith run on third and short on our first drive last night all the more maddening. It kills me when Denard tears himself apart to get eight yards on a keeper and then we can't finish off the first down for him. I don't blame Vince Smith here--I think he's a tough player and good receiver out of the backfield. But good lord we're getting awfully close to the definition of insanity on these third and short runs. Set Denard free from the first drive on!
The best we can hope from Vincent Smith is that he will be at full strength next year. The team misses the zippy back who looked good near the end of last year... much better than Shaw did.
The 3rd and 1 playcalling the past two years has been ridiculous, although it's of course treasonous to find flaws with our top ten offense. Maybe Hopkins and Cox have been fumbling like mad in practice... maybe.
To be fair, there is no offense that is able to come from behind when the defense allows the opposing offense to score on every possession. With the way that our offense played in the second half, we should have been in a great position to win. Not only does our defense allow a ton of points, they allow the other team to take 5-6 minutes off of the clock on every possession, giving the offense fewer chances to catch up. Time of possession doesn't mean dick, except when a team is able to bleed the clock with a big lead.
I am actually in favor of going back to an aggressive high-risk-high-reward defense, even if it means we get burned for some long TDs. If we get burned for a quick score, at least the offense gets right back out there to wear down the opposing D and to maintain their offensive rhythm. If the D is going to get smoked anyway, at least leave the offense enough time to respond, like with the ND Rudolph TD.
Never have I ever wanted a win more bad than I do now. It is killing me that we are but one win short of being bowl eligible. I want my confidence to be reestablished, but the more I contemplate things, I find I just don't know a damn fucking thing.
Thanks for calling us all pussies. What are we suppose to do keep silent about the struggles this team has had the last 3 years? Its what makes us fans. Now, I have season tickets and may be giving up the Illinois game only because I may have to work, and I'm usually gonna weasel my out of of work for the games, but this one I won't, mainly cause the work is more important this time, and I am afraid of what I will become if we lose saturday and I'm at the big house.
During the year and every person who said "I would have fired him after the first year" and to everyone who said "I knew that we'd lose to MSU it's just like last year first RR now". You should be shot you're a shitty fan.
Old yellar style
Well I agree with that, anyone counting us out before the year started is retarded. But I think to simply complain about how our team is performing is fair game to do. Some people take it too far , but mild complaining I think is warranted right now.
But when we were 5-1 playing Iowa the shit I heard was intolerable. People leaving at half time. Completely giving up on the team. Saying they'd fire him after the first year.
It's going to be so much worse this game. All I want to do is go to the game and cheer on this team as loud as I can and provide a good atmosphere for my Illinois friend who is coming to his first Michigan game.
I'm worried he's going to have a terrible experience and be like "WTF is wrong with your fans".
They were seriously leaving at halftime or was that an exaggeration?
He was walking upstairs and saw a fried and he said "I can't support this team with this coach im leaving".
Yes he was 50-60
I do wish Purdue was next week, so we could have a 'reasonably attainable' shot at getting the 6th win out of the way and build back a little confidence.
Illinois, by many accounts is a team on the rise, and I wouldn't be surprised if they continue the trend of 30+ points against our non-offense. Sure, we can and probably should beat Illinois, but I won't be surprised if we don't.
If nothing else, I want to see to our D sell out with pressure on Scheelhaase. I don't care if that means we give up big plays. Surely a time or 2 he'll make a poor throw or we can get a deflection. I'm so sick of our Cover-8/Bend & Eventually Break D at this point.
I look at the OP, then I look at bouje's signature, which features "A house divided against itself cannot stand," it makes me wonder just what exactly he's thinking.
the "shitty" fans are "shot Old yellar style" the house won't be divided anymore. Just the "good" fans 'll be left.
We all know your opinion. Boo hoo with Lloyd we are an 8 win team always!!!
Come on Bouje. You call our fans pussies, but you're the one who's already given up on us beating Illinois. I know, you said you thought we could definitely win it, but if you're really filled with dread when you think about next Saturday that means you don't believe it. Buck up. Just think how good and drunk you'll feel if we pull the upset.
I agree that we shouldn't pass judgment until the end of the year. Thing have gone horribly awry, but we should give Rodriguez the chance to prove our worst assumptions wrong. There's nothing wrong with speculating on a message board, though.
I just don't enjoy being around a bunch of fucktard Michigan fans. It was bad enough against Iowa but being around these people who would rather bitch than cheer on the team is.. Exhausting.
You want to know what my point was?
Look at what you just posted, then look at your sig, and evaluate. How are you helping by calling fans "fucktards" because they feel differently than you do about the state of the program?
And the stadium is not one of them. You can bitch on this board, email Dave Brandon just don't do it it at the stadium in front of the student athletes and recruits.
I am not, not looking forward to the game next week. I am very excited to watch the team get that 6th win and to watch the amazing Denard continue his record breaking season.
Support the team and yell "Go Blue"... even if it is just at the TV. Honestly, I know the team can hear me from my sofa. All of my neighbors can.
Even with the beating we took yesterday, and the self-protective numbness I now have regarding games, there's still a glimmer of hope - a what if? - that will never go away. Maybe this will be the game that will turn everything around. Maybe we'll pull this one out. When it comes to Michigan football, I'll always have that feeling.
Shitty teams beat good teams all the time. It's called college football. We're a very "predictive stats" fanbase. Random things happen sometimes.
We're shitty. Illinois is okay. A win is possible. A win would be cool.
I'll watch. It's almost liberating to have all expectations melt away.
I worry I'll be the only one not screaming for RRs head. Which would be just great for recruiting.
Oh bouje, you are the best fan ever!
I will be there for the first time in years. It will be the first time I have ever taken my Auburn fan wife of twenty years to Ann Arbor. If anyone around me boos, violence may not be out of the question. And there will be at least one other person there not out for RR's head.
That's just a fact. I paid as much for my ticket as you did, so if I need to bitch once in a while, then I will bitch. I'm 10X more likely to cheer and make noise for the team, but sometimes I can't contain all my frustration - it's just who I am. Usually when I'm negative, it's just "HOTTDB" or "catch the damn ball!". I'm NOT calling for RR's head, and honestly I haven't heard much of that around me. I suspect after the PSU game, we'll all hear it more often.
Illinois all year. They are simply better than us, and will out physical UM in every facet of the game just like the last two years.
Out physical? Are they really that much better at turning their head and coughing than we are?