February 2012
No, YOU'RE laying in bed at 10:20 on a Friday...
Whatever. Last night was a lot.
and I have a lot of shite (schoolwork) to do this weekend.
AND I’m very excited about my trip down to dc next weekend. My liver needs to start warming up.
My phone's autocorrect recognizes GOProud.
I need to reevaluate my texting habits.
no, scheduling clinic office hours at 9am is a...
why would I think otherwise?
I think cab drivers shouldn't be allowed to use...
Fuck “safety.”
Did you guys know that sin is actually a result of...
The guy on the subway holding a sign just told me.
I would have taken a picture, but I didn’t want to give him the satisfaction, and sneaky I am not.
I have 50 minutes to read 20 pages of statutes.
I think I’m just going to give up now…
“When I say ‘What do lawyers use for birth control?’ and the answer...”
– Jay Pritchett, to Mitchell.
I just don’t understand why they even bother putting caffeine free drinks in the vending machines at school.
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It's really cool that we have this nice quiet...
Cause I’d much rather listen to them teach one another about synapses then be able to focus on my reading.
It's snowing
Ewww
For what it's worth
I’ve now seen three different legal analysts say that they think the narrow holding in Perry makes it unlikely that the Supreme Court will even hear the case, since it only implicates California and not other states.
Since the decision relies so heavily on Romer in just applying already settled law, I think it’s probably unlikely to be granted a reahearing en banc.
That would be one...
Thoughts on yesterday's Prop 8 decision →
Reblogging myself because I stayed up later than I should have writing it, so I want y’all to see it.
creatively-uncreative:
c-newt:
Here’s my two sentence summary:
Great for California. Makes no immediate (next 5 years) difference for the rest of the country.
Here’s my longer thought process: (As a disclaimer, I just read through the opinion once, I don’t have it in front of...
Thoughts on today's Prop 8 decision
Here’s my two sentence summary:
Great for California. Makes no immediate (next 5 years) difference for the rest of the country.
Here’s my longer thought process: (As a disclaimer, I just read through the opinion once, I don’t have it in front of me right now, I’m tired, and I’m not actually a lawyer. Also, I’m trying to make this really accessible, so it...
The Perry decision should come down by 1:00...
I mean, either way, there will probably be a rehearing en banc, where a larger number of 9th Circuit judges hear the case, and then a definite appeal to the Supreme Court, but this is still a bfd.
Edit: a rehearing “en banc” is, as I said before, when more judges from the 9th circuit would hear the case. Usually only 3 judges hear any given case on appeal. In big cases that are...
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The 9th Circuit is expected to rule on the Prop 8... →
This article from Towleroad gives a very good explanation of what’s happened so far and what they expect to happen.
I'm watching The Voice
It’s actually pretty entertaining.
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It’s like I’m just TRYING to give myself paper cuts today.
Elizabeth Warren changed the country →
Hey, here’s an article my Consumer Law professor wrote.
Just spent half an hour on the Alcor website...
lawschooled:
Finally thought of just googling ‘alcor contract’.
It was the fourth hit down.
Did this the other day with something my clinic professor wanted me to look up. ”I know this language is in X legislation.” I look in X legislation, it’s not there at all, she swears it should be, so I finally google it, and find it in Y legislation, word for word.”
...
When you like football and the commercials, it’s really hard to figure out when to go to the bathroom.
Watching football always reminds me that if...
Then I can get my fat ass to the gym.
Between Eli Manning, Tom Brady, and Madonna
Gay people have never had more reasons to watch the super bowl.
Omg, the words with friends airplane joke…
How To End Corporate Personhood
jasencomstock:
thecallus:
Kill the lawyers.
http://youtu.be/Se8jrJ24Oh8
Please do that before I become one.
A List of Things to Say to Sound as if You... →
Mention the 2008 Super Bowl and something about “Tyree” and a “helmet catch.” This will be a tricky one to pull off, and is probably best achieved with mumbling and a face-palm, as in: “Mmmbumbammm 2008 mmba Tyree and THAT HELMET CATCH!” (Face-palm. Exit left for more onion dip.)…
If you are pretending to root for the Giants—that’s the team that...
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This is where I grew up →
Cumberland County Sheriff’s deputies use Taser on woman blocking McDonald’s drive-through
Deputies used a Taser on a woman who wouldn’t surrender to them after she cut into a McDonald’s drive-through line and then refused to move her car without being served, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.
Evangeline Marrero Lucca, 37, of the 100 block of...
“With respect to taking a jury for a view [of the crime scene], the disruption...”
– This evidence book’s got jokes.
zainyk asked: stop fapping to christian pron.
If you’re a federal judge who thinks APR stands for “Average Percentage Rate,” you probably shouldn’t be writing an opinion re the Truth In Lending Act.
Thought process just now
“Wow, that guy looks really young. I never understand why undergrads hang out in the law cafeteria…oh, he has a New York Practice book, that means he’s a 3L. Now I feel old AND like a slacker.”
Why I hate Wednesdays:
Because there comes a time somewhere around 6:30 when I realize “shit, I still have to be here for 4 more hours.”
I guess this was good news
So, I’m in the ~advanced clinic~ at school this semester. This is with the professor who helped me get the summer internship. So, today she asked me to help her with an amicus brief and to help with some legislation that she and some other consumer advocates from around New York are working to pass. Both of these things will allow me to boost my résumé, and to meet people across the city...
“Daubert extends beyond science”
– My notes that I write in the margin of the book are way cooler out of context. ~~~~beyondddddddddd science~~~~~
January 2012
WatchCivil rights hero John Lewis responds to Chris Christie’s ridiculous statement from last week.
I plan good
I was way too tired to read 13 pages for Consumer Law, so instead I read a 14 page New Yorker article about Tyler Clementi and Dharun Ravi, so now I have to wake up early tomorrow to read for class.
This would be a good time for a gif of Ron Weasley shaking his head and saying “she needs to sort our her priorities.”
“I think (African-Americans) would have been happy to have a referendum on civil...”
– New Jersey governor and Republican darling CHRIS CHRISTIE, who is pushing for a voter referendum on marriage equality in his state rather than take up the issue in the Legislature.
Yes, because in those good old days, a referendum was a realistic option for African-Americans, you fucking idiot.
...
“February 15, 2010 is more than three years after September 14, 2006.”
– The requests on this Notice to Admit are pretty great.