Legalese

In which I attempt to share some of the contents of my scattered mind.
Fri Dec 18
There are so many things to read in the world other than ATL comments. Thank you. www.abovethelaw.com
Mon Dec 14
While some prisons for violent and dangerous offenders should be preserved, the report calls for most to be replaced with a system of smaller centers closer to the communities where most of the families of the youths in custody live. Task Force Finds Crisis in New York’s Juvenile Prison System - NYTimes.com
Mon Oct 19
Useless

Useless

Wed Aug 26
We will marginalize the white separatist movement in Mississippi, and we will do it soon. Mississippi Human Rights Report » Blog Archive » Followup on the Chassaniol/White/CCC Controversy
Sun Aug 16
Yet data is merely the raw material of knowledge. For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word - Statistics - NYTimes.com
Mon Jul 27

“Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash (via srmaximo)

Thu Jul 23
Bude Mayor Decided By A Number From A Hat
By Associated Press Story Created: Jun 9, 2009 at 12:27 PM CDT Story Updated: Jun 9, 2009 at 3:46 PM CDT A tied vote in the race for mayor of Bude has been settled with the drawing of the winning number by incumbent Earl Case. The drawing was held between Case and an appointed representative of challenger Arthur Mac Littleton, who refused to participate in the tiebreaker. With both drawers attempting to get closest to 10, Case drew an eight, while Littleton’s appointed participant drew only a two. The mayor’s race ended June 2 with 144 votes for each candidate. Littleton has announced that he will challenge the results of the election. The drawing the break the tie was held Friday.
Bude Mayor Decided By A Number From A Hat | Fox40 Jackson, MS | Other Local Counties
The U.S. Government should not be in the business of taking the lives of innocent Americans. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg once said that the deliberate institutionalized taking of human life by the state is the greatest degradation of the human personality imaginable. Senator Kennedy Raises Concerns About Expansion of Federal Death Penalty | Death Penalty Information Center
Thu Jul 2
Correction: June 26, 2009
An article on Tuesday about a Congressional commission’s plan to issue standards to reduce sexual assault in prison misstated the source of most assaults. More prisoners report being sexually assaulted by staff members than by other inmates, not the reverse.
Panel to Issue Standards to Reduce Prison Rapes - NYTimes.com
Mon Jun 22
Minow is a distinguished legal scholar with interests that range from international human rights to equality and inequality, from religion and pluralism to managing mass tort litigation, from family law and education law to the privatization of military, schooling, and other governmental activities. New dean of HLS