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Case of the Day: Alharbi v. The Blaze, Inc.
The Case of the Day is Alharbi v. The Blaze, Inc. (D. Mass. 2016). Foreign readers may not be familiar with Glenn Beck. He is one of the group that I like to call the carnival barkers: unserious, pseudo-intellectual commentators from whom many right-wing partisans get their news. (I’m sure there are carnival barkers of……
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Blogatory Pet Peeve: Airport Wifi Surveillance
I’d like to vent today about a problem I’ve known about for a while but that I encountered again today. Bear with me: even understanding the problem requires a bit of set-up.
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This Is Not A Drill!
First, to those of you abroad who are friends to America. Don’t worry! We are a strange country filled with strange characters. But our wise founding fathers bequeathed us political institutions that have proved surprisingly strong for more than two centuries. For now, thank goodness, it seems highly unlikely that Mr. Trump could win a……
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What’s Going On At HLS?
I have been following the news from Harvard Law School, my law school, with concern. What is going on at HLS? I want to note two items that were worrying to me and maybe to you. The first is the anti-Semitic remarks that, according to a published report, an “HLS student, who is the president……
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Trouble at Northern New England School of Law
In this strangest of political seasons, my foreign readers will be forgiven for thinking that America is a strange place indeed. And the American legal world is no exception. Just recently, in a reprise of Ashford v. Thornton, a lawyer from Staten Island demanded trial by battle in an action against him for aiding a……