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Keep Flag Burning Safe, Legal and Rare

  • Posted by Mike
  • 6/28/2006

Baseball Crank on banning flag desecration:
Personally, I’m all in favor of keeping flag burning legal. Why stop the enemy from identifying himself? Every time some nitwit college student burns a flag on camera, that’s one less idiot who can ever run for public office.
I’ll co-sponsor that proposition, with a slight amendment: every time someone exercises […]

Quacks Like a Duck, but Didn’t File the Paperwork

  • Posted by Mike
  • 6/8/2006

This is a little inside baseball, but a federal judge in Arkansas has ruled that the federal Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 does not apply to cases that have NOT been filed under Federal Rule 23 (governing class actions) or state law equivalent, even if the relief asked for is essentially identical.

The motion sought […]

Florida Judge Orders Game of Rock Paper Scissors

  • Posted by Mike
  • 6/8/2006

In this day and age, many courts issue their orders electronically, and most lawyers have access to the online public records, which means that when a judge does something unusual, the e-mail chain spreads it quickly. This one just landed in my email box.
Wednesday, a federal judge in Orlando, Gregory Presnell, ordered the lawyers […]