Yes I saw that about the cell phone. Where I live, not giving a teen a cell phone is considered abuse. I had a friend that waited until high school for his kids. I told him the state was going to take them kids away if he didn’t comply in his very rich school district.
Can only fail up at … Harvard
In before America manages to make abortion legal for all women who serve as slaves for at least X months. Really looking forward to the pained Roberts concurrence. Sotomayor might just snap and drop some f-bombs in the dissent.
Lol Sotomayor is publicly defending Thomas nobody’s running thru that door
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Is as it were was.
Left wing policies are causing the crime!
Boots liberal out
Crime? Those have natural causes that I’m powerless to stop
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https://twitter.com/ASFleischman/status/1545520160508985355
The Court’s reasoning is lol. Sure you have a general right not to be retaliated against for free speech but we’ve never ruled that this specific retaliation for free speech is illegal so it’s qualified immunity.
The more I think about it, the less I like qualified immunity (at least from civil suits). I can understand the need for it, but there are so many bad outcomes as a result. Unfortunately, I can’t think of a great solution either.
Pierson v Ray was an 8-1 decision by the liberal Warren court.
As I understand it, Pierson took the common law principle that you can’t sue the police if they arrest you and you are later found innocent so long as the police are acting in good faith and probable cause and applied that to possible civil rights violations in a case involving a 1961 police action done under a law that was not ruled unconstitutional until 1965.
However, SCOTUS also said that the lawsuit in question shouldn’t be dismissed because there was a legitimate debate over whether the police were acting reasonably (using the legal concept of a reasonable person) and in good faith.
Judges have unqualified immunity in their judicial role. Legislators have unqualified immunity in their legislative role. Cops are not given unqualified immunity in their policing role; the qualification for their immunity under Pierson was that they had to be acting in good faith.
The basic concept makes sense to me and can be seen the normal evolution of legal thinking. There is a reasonable argument that problem isn’t that cops have qualified immunity, but that the qualifications of that immunity give too much respect to the discretion that cops have in their jobs.
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Bankruptcy law the biggest under the radar racket going. Charge whatever the fuck you want and get paid before anyone else.
That seems true, at least for a small subset of cases. The prominent BigLaw firm I worked at for two years out of law school got its start in the 40-50s as a bunch of Jewish lawyers doing grubby bankruptcies. It’s a good model, because all cases against the debtor get moved to bankruptcy court, and the bk firm then works on all of them, and gets paid first.
If I did law school again I might focus all my efforts on bk law instead of IP. I’m IP-skeptical (I’m a patent attorney who dislikes patents, which is good for doing defense work) but am mostly ok with the body of IP law (except copyright), but I think anyone with a pulse and solid corporate bk knowledge and experience would be making bank. (Though personal BK is a cookie cutter volume practice to my understanding, and 80%+ of corporate bankruptices are small, poorly run companies without many assets).
Also, if you understand the BK system you can make good money as a vulture, like Wilbur Ross.
The compression on those associate salaries is nuts. Only $140 difference between a junior and a senior?
Ya that is an insane rate sheet. At my company, I charged more than double my most junior person.
Also, $1k/hour for a 2nd year associate is criminal.
Sorry if this has already been brought up
The guy who planned to break into Kavanaugh’s house with zip ties and plans to possibly murder him is looking at 20 years. What is the legal difference between that, and breaking into the Capital looking to kidnap and possibly murdering the vice president or congress person? No one was actually harmed in either case. Has anyone got 20 years for their role in J6? Will there be anyone?
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