Thursday, June 22, 2017

The prohibition of child marriage in New York - 17-year olds can lawfully have sex, but cannot marry?

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo just announced, with much fanfare, that he had signed a bill to end child marriage in New York. Now the ag...

Is the gender of the judge's sex partner a new qualification for office - or is it a distracting trick from the unseemly speed of how a judge's death investigation was hushed up?

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A "first openly gay judge" was quickly appointed and no less quickly confirmed in New York for its highest court - New York State ...

New survival tricks of law schools further expose the sham of attorney regulation - on ownership of law schools by law firms

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It has been a trend for a while that law schools are losing students and lower admission standards, and while the legal job market continues...
Saturday, June 10, 2017

Cancellation of Obama's political patronage policy - and the continuing "cy pres" funding of nonprofits

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I recently wrote a 5-part article about the lawsuit by immigration lawyers suing the federal executive branch of the government to lift a di...

Political correctness, occupational regulation and the 1st Amendment

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What is occupational and industry regulation for? Isn't it supposed to be protection of consumers from bad products and dishonest merc...

On cynicism about the government, execution of innocents and satisfaction with justice

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U.S. Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorsuch, the latest addition to U.S. taxpayers' burden in a useless court that enforces the U.S. Constitut...

Common sense and 1st Amendment prevails in an attorney disciplinary case in Ohio

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An appeals court in Ohio vacated sanctions against an attorney for giving the media public information about an upcoming lawsuit, correctly ...