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The cardinal mocked a secular culture that “seems to discover new rights every day.” “I don’t recall a right to marriage,” he said, describing marriage, instead, as a “call.” —Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, 2012 Marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ fundamental to our very existence and survival.” —Loving v. Virginia, [...]
Archive for the ‘Law Notes’ Category
March 4th, 2012
February 28th, 2012
Category: Britain, Law Notes, MSM (mainstream media), Murdoch, Struggle Between Good and Evil, Wayward press
A senior Met officer alleges systematic bribery of police by one of Murdoch’s British newspapers.
February 25th, 2012
Category: Abortion, Birth Control, Feminism, Health Care, Illinois, Law Notes, Politics and Leadership, public health, Women
Illinois State Representative Kelly Cassidy has introduced a proposal requiring men who ask their doctors for Viagra to sit through a film showing treatment of its most common side effects, including that mythical four-hour erection. Apparently it’s not a pretty sight. Her proposed amendment to the Ultrasound Opportunity Act (obviously named by Eric Blair) parallels [...]
February 20th, 2012
The Obama Administration hasn’t even promulgated its new compromise contraception rule, and already plaintiffs are rushing in to challenge it. Since the regulation isn’t even out yet, these challenges will fail (because the litigation is not “ripe”), but eventually that will occur, and some court might have to look at the issue on the merits. [...]
February 16th, 2012
Category: Affordable Care Act, Constitutional politics, Feminism, Health Care, Law Notes, public health, Religion and Politics, Watching Conservatives
House Republicans looked pretty bad today when their morning panel about the Affordable Care Act’s contraception regulations failed to include a single woman. But then Republicans argued that it really had nothing whatsoever to do with contraception. Representative and Deadbeat Dad Joe Walsh of Illinois, who speaks for most of the House Republican Conference, insisted, “This is not about [...]
February 9th, 2012
Category: Law Notes, Technology and Society
Honeywell’s patent on a thermostat dial.
February 3rd, 2012
Professor Balkin discusses corporations as slaves – following the RBC.
January 11th, 2012
Category: Academic Labor Market, Energy and Environment, Law Notes, Republican Party, Watching Conservatives
Teresa R. Wagner, a conservative Republican who applied for a faculty job at Iowa and was turned down, thinks so: Ms. Wagner, who graduated from the law school in 1993 and had taught at the George Mason University School of Law, was not hired. She sued, alleging discrimination because of her political beliefs. Late last [...]
December 31st, 2011
Category: 501(c)(3), charity, Good news, Higher education, Human rights, Law Notes, Management, Music, NonProfits, Organizing, Philanthropy, Religion and Politics, Think Tanks, Uncategorized
Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits by Lesley Rosenthal (John Wiley & Sons 2012) As I embarked on writing Good Counsel: Meeting the Legal Needs of Nonprofits, well-meaning and concerned folks cited at least three reasons why no one had written such a book before, and (implicitly) why I shouldn’t try: it’s too [...]
December 26th, 2011
I know we have some readers with legal training, and this question is directed to them. Some of the films I recommend each Friday on this site are not readily available from NetFlix/libraries/stores but have been posted online in their entirety. I don’t want to rip off people who make movies, nor do I want [...]