Logrolling in action
According to a memorandum opinion handed down by the US District Court for DC today (and I have no reason to doubt it), the Balanced Budget Downpayment Act of 1996 prohibits the use of federal funds...
View ArticleCan we apply this to flames on discussion boards, too?
This is somewhat outrageous: An unemployed man in Philadelphia got angry at Sen. Bunning after the Senator complained about a debate on unemployment benefits preventing him from seeing a Kentucky...
View ArticleNote from the annals of legalese linguistic absurdity:
[x 'comprising' y, z, a] indicates that y, z, a is an open set which may contain elements not listed. meanwhile [x 'consisting of' y, z, a] indicates that y z a is a closed, exhaustive set. wtf?
View ArticleSeattle Box I
Seattle Box had a patent on a method of bundling pipes for shipment which specified that a spacer used in the bundling process must have a height “greater than the diameter of the pipe”. It was issued...
View ArticleStatistics
In an average year, federal, state, and local governments make more than 15 million arrests and obtain around 1 million felony convictions and several million additional misdemeanor convictions....
View ArticleHarsh
Apparently, Florida abolished parole in 1983, and nobody sentenced since then is eligible for parole. This played a major role in this year’s Supreme Court decision throwing out life-without-parole...
View ArticleThe essence of legal libertarianism
That the interests of the public should receive a more favorable consideration than those of any individual, or that the legal rights of the humblest person in the state should be sacrificed to the...
View ArticleAn absurd solution to an election law problem
The Board thus began investigating the disputed ballots and subpoenaed over four-hundred poll workers. R.38-7 (E-mail correspondence at 2). At Board meetings held on December 16 and 17, the Board...
View ArticleHunter v Hamilton County
Interesting election law case. Ohio law prohibits counting provisional ballots which are cast in the wrong precinct, even if they are cast in the wrong precinct as a result of poll worker error. Harsh,...
View ArticleWhy riparianism persists in California
Riparian lands are irrigated naturally by the waters percolating through the soil and dissolving its fertilizing properties. This is sufficiently apparent from the consequences which ordinarily follow...
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