Tag Archives: law and the courts

“An AK-47 in a Tennessee Park”

When I read this heading on an editorial in yesterday’s New York Times, I started thinking, “Oh shit what more horrors do I have to absorb over the Boys Bearing Guns-Second Amendment nonsense.” But wait. The editorial actually offers a … Continue reading →

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Plaintiffs behaving foolishly 3

Back again to the New York Times piece about the songwriter who claimed a song was stolen from her, was right, and won her case. It occurs to me now that this plaintiff, who acted pro se [for herself, i.e., … Continue reading →

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Lilly Ledbetter v. the Supreme Court

I’ve written several times about Lilly Ledbetter and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. In yesterday’s New York Times, the excellent Supreme Court reporter, Adam Liptak, wrote an important Sidebar column about this act and about how the … Continue reading →

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