Category Archives: Legal

Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy

Here are some highlights from this 2022 book by journalist and professor Amy Gajda: * [Alexander] Hamilton’s response to it all was a ninety-five-page booklet complaining about his own loss of privacy. He found “mortifying disappointment” in Callender’s “Scandal-Club” publication … Continue reading

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RBG

Comments at Steve Sailer: * Ginsburg is so damn overrated. If she was a man with the exact same record he would be known as a CRUSHING BORE. A plodder. * At the time she was nominated, Alan Dershowitz criticised … Continue reading

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LAT: By easing its bar exam score, will California produce more Black and Latino lawyers?

The Los Angeles Times suggests that reducing standards will allow for more diversity. Report: For more than three decades, California has clung to one of the nation’s toughest testing standards for law school students hoping to practice law in the … Continue reading

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How Not To Get Sued

I was sued five times for libel. Three of those lawsuits were handled by my insurance and two were handled pro-bono by a friend. I believe I was out of pocket about $16,000 for expenses. I never had any assets … Continue reading

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Iphigenia: Anatomy of a Murder Trial

Here are some excerpts from this 2011 Janet Malcolm book: * What they say in their opening statements is decisive, of course. If we understand that a trial is a contest between competing narratives, we can see the importance of … Continue reading

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