One great way to have a brief pompously returned is to you with directions to “correct and re-file” is to include any kind of graphic. The appellate clerk’s office is filled with martinets. Your only hope is to file an application for leave to include a graphic. 99% of these will be denied. Font-size, word count, how words are counted (teenager, teen-ager or teen ager?) are pimples the clerks love to pick.
Kosovo voted for independence and the will of the people was respected. Crimea voted for union with Russia and the will of the people was ignored. The war in Ukraine is not what you think.
Active Covid-19 cases in Bahrain for the month of June, 2022. The numbers are going up, not down.
Do clients know they are paying seasoned lawyers to futz with document formatting? This is a direct result of getting rid of secretaries. How many fruitless attorney hours are wasted fixing fomatting; correcting autonumbering errors and the like? Or my favorite: having local counsel fill in forms on templates where the phrase “use additional sheets where necessary” is missing. How many hours lost (by clients but billed by law firms) as attorneys try to tweak the forms, fix hyphenation, add numbered lists, etc.
Reuters asks: “should a female elephant have some of the same legal rights as humans? In a push to free the one named Happy from the Bronx Zoo, an animal rights group asks New York’s top court that question .” What about male elephants? Should they not have the same rights as female elephants? Or has the vice of political correctness so infected thought that Reuters thought it appropriate to tell us the elephant’s gender, as if it had anything to do with the issue?
According to the NY Times, at least 20 banks are putting up 1/3rd of the money Elon needs to buy Twitter.
First drafts don’t get typeset in 12 pt Century. This is a “draft” only in the sense that there may be line-edits and cites checked. Not that there will be substantive changes. Expect this to be the opinion of the Court. They have already voted.
I have pointed out that KSA is the largest foreign shareholder of Twitter. I was corrected here and ate crow. But this was just posted following PWBT’s dust-up with Elon Musk. Musk #Twitter #SaudiArabia
Kyle Rittenhouse criticized Biden (for criticizing him). Kyle, here’s some advice: some day you might become a pundit. If that’s your goal—and we both know it’s not—enroll at the University of Arizona, the University of Illinois (SIU or Champaign, either will do); get your bachelor’s in criminology. Now try to parlay your fifteen minutes into a substantial gig. That might simply be a lowly but honest job as a police officer—which you did want—or a first responder.
(Congressman Alcee Hastings died this week). Alcee Hastings, a civil rights leader in the 1970’s, was the first black federal district judge in Florida. Judge Alcee Hastings sat on the bench in federal court while the old Miami power structure conspired to get rid of him. Later he would be indicted for bribery, acquitted and impeached anyway. Even today, the truth of the allegations against him are in dispute. The impeachment trial in the Senate only removed him from judicial office; for a second time the senators found him “not guilty” of accepting bribes.