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Law Blog - WSJ.com : “Heckler” Judge at Mukasey Dinner Speaks to the Law Blog“Tyrant, you are a tyrant,” the man said, before being shouted down by other attendees. Soon after, the man left the room. There is no reason to believe the outburst helped cause Mukasey’s collapse, which occurred 15 minutes later. Mukasey, of [...]

Thomas Kinkade’s 16 Guidelines for Making Stuff Suck: Culture and Celebrity: vanityfair.comOne reason might be that Kinkade, a postmodern Norman Rockwell for the evangelist set, instructed the crew to adhere to an aesthetic code that wouldn’t have flown in a first-year film class. The list of 16 “guidelines” on how to create “The Thomas Kinkade [...]

The Volokh Conspiracy - Bankruptcy and the Detroit Three:But the other half of an argument against a bailout is that GM (or the others, but I'll use GM to illustrate the point) presents an unusually good case for Chapter 11 reorganization. GM is, in fact, the textbook example of what Chapter 11 was invented to [...]

Judge Reveals Long Witness List In Lori Drew Trial | Threat Level from Wired.comThe list, which Judge Wu, read to prospective jurors on Tuesday, includes more than half a dozen other witness. Presumed to be among them are Drew's hairdresser, to whom she reportedly discussed the hoax as it was occurring, and a deputy [...]

Lori Drew and the Computer Fraud and Abuse ActThis case is basically a witch hunt. It is exactly what the Constitution mandates should not happen in criminal law. The law shouldn't be vague. It shouldn't be a tool that prosecutors can use whenever they don't like a particular person. Judge Wu should dismiss this case [...]