If you visit my parents' house, and you open their refrigerator door, and you look in their pantry, you'll see that someone in the house grew up hungry.

My parents' refrigerator overflows with cheese, candy bars, yogurt cups, bacon, deli meat, jam and jelly and marmalade, cold soda, milk and… Read full post »

Hard cases make bad law.

-Anonymous

 The Eleventh Circuit Court of appeals handed down a decision yesterday which ought to scare you. It won't, but it ought to. 

 In fact, you'll probably agree with the result.  It's hard not to.  That's why hard cases make bad law. 

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I was lucky enough to sing happy birthday to Ruth Bader Ginsberg last night, along with hundreds of other law students, law things, law professors, law groupies, judge, justices, and hangers-on. New England Law Boston* had her as their keynote speaker at their law day celebration.

It was an amazing… Read full post »

The New York times ran a piece last week that's been on my mind ever since. Debt collection agencies are collecting debts from the dead, or, near as can be. They call people who are the executors or heirs or administrators of the recently deceased, and suggest that the deceaseds'… Read full post »

I didn't just have a brush with death; I died.

I was two and a half, or somewhere around there. It was just after my second easter, and I was born in the summer. I was two summers, two falls, two winters and three springs old.

My brother was born… Read full post »

I have a beef stew in the slow-cooker, and I've planned a cake. Lemon - his favorite. I'll go downstairs in a minute, and I'll start zesting, creaming, and measuring. Laid out around me on the floor are a textbook, highlighters in every color but yellow, and scraps of paper with… Read full post »

The Boston Globe had a story yesterday, about a Canadian member of a fundamentalist mormon sect, alleging that Canada's laws outlawing polygamy are discriminatory. Laws outlawing polygamy are discriminatory - but not for the reasons he alleges.

He argues that bans on plural marriage are religously di… Read full post »