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This is probably the umpteenth time I'm going to post this, but I really dig this remix. In about a week, I'm probably going to end up doing a bit of parallel citation for the second verse---I think I've finally worked out allt he cases Jay-Z relies on in his conversation with the cop.

Boingboing is carrying a story about a company that is offering an unusual palm pistol for sale as a Class I Medical device.

Apparently, the manufacturers had the foresight to register their palm pistol with the Food & Drug Administration as a "Daily Activity Assist Device" under 21 C.F.R. § 890.5050. A device registered under this regulation is ( Read more... )

[The bulk of this post is taken from a comment I posted on washingtondc]

Apparently, WMATA has announced plans to "immediately begin random searches of backpacks, purses and other bags.Yeah, you heard right. These will be random, suspicionless searches of otherwise unsuspecting Metro riders ( Read more... )

A friend just called me in a near-panic. She is applying for a job. Part of the application process involves a writing test ( Read more... )

digging through the digests, I'm amused to notice that most of the "defective brake" cases that make it into the digests seem to come from the South. Do y'all have such a hard time looking after your brakes down there? Seriously.

There's something that's bothering me. Where is all the cyberlaw? It's been nearly fifteen years since the Eternal September threw open the gates of the old Internet to a massive influx of newbies, and yet the accumulates scholarship on substantive law on the Internet is extremely sparse. What treatment the Internet does receive in the legal ( Read more... )

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On the tort side, it's lucky for this idiot that he's in CT, which is a comparative-negligence state. In DC/MD/VA---NO RECOVERY.

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Which Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Are You?

YOU ARE RULE 20(a)!You are Rule 20, an important part of the Federal Rules' policy of permissive joinder. You are designed specifically to allow as many parties in an action as can be tried efficiently, and you'll include someone as long as there is some factual overlap between a claim involving ( Read more... )

An interesting take on relationships, from the The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing by Joseph Triemens.

The Claims of Companionship ( Read more... )