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Simple Justice: Monthly Archives for September 2008

Paulson's a Day Trader

Tasers, It's A Family Thing

Why Law Review Articles Were Never Meant for Us (Update)

House Votes NO (Update)

The Bonus for being Main Street (Updates)

Confusing an Execution with a Right

Why the Ferrari? Why?

The "Claymore Mine" of Tasers

Grades Make Them Feel Bad

Debate Lessons, Volume I

10 Things I Really Don't Want to Hear About Today

The Day of Cynicism (Update)

What is Your Juror Thinking About Today?

Tattoos; The Next Big Suspect Classification?

30 Minutes is All You Get in New York

Myspace Suicude / Lori Drew Update

Is Journalism the Cure for Wrongful Convictions?

Once a Vulture, Always a Vulture

A Truly Inspirational Speech From Washington

The USA Patriot Bailout Act

The Old "Stop Having Childen" Condition

The Value Movement: Should New Associates Pay for the Privilege?

Troy Davis Execution Stayed; Family "Furious"

When Burt Pugach Calls, Hang Up. Fast.

Will the Execution Proceed Anyway? (Update: Stay Granted!)

As If Money Was No Object

Big Blog Bailout?

Electing the New Supreme Court

Chicago Cops Feeling Unloved

It's Good to Work for the LIRR

A Victim of Success

Dear Mr. Lawyer, Please Help, I'm Innocent

Colorblind Blawging

Are the Guidelines the same for Diet Coke?

Should Landlords be Subject to Free Excercise of Religion?

"Fashion" Police Pack a Punch

Hard Choices Sentencing a Kid Drug Dealer

Bail All You Want, But...

What Does Recession Mean for Criminal Lawyers?

Mafia Cops: Conspirators Forever

Lay Judges, Screw Litigants

How to Impact a Senator? Through His Mercedes

"Six-Pack" Scalia Excoriates Liberal Chicago Law School

The Outrageously High Price of Special Prosecution (Update)

Bunkbenches Save Money at Too High a Price

"I'm A'Fixin' to Tase You" Rag

When Murder Loses its Meaning

Going for Broke

What Not To Wear, Republican Edition

Blawger Victimized by Brooklyn Legal Aid Lawyer (Update!)

The Lawprofs Respond: The Slackoisie are Differently Abled

Clearance Sale - Burglary is a Loss Leader

Lawblog 2008 a Smash in London

Today would be a Good Day to go Solo

Banking and Brokerage Got its Wish

Is Anybody Listening?

Galveston, Oh Galveston (Update)

Somebody Should Help

The Certainty of Simplicity (Hannity/SNL Update)

Barry Kamins Turns Honorable

But it was only 3 Taser Jolts, Judge

AmEx to Disabled Children: Drop Dead

Sitting or Standing, Passengers Lose Again

The Bright Line of Privacy Ends at a Brooklyn Stoop

Bob Simels Indicted in Plot to "Eliminate" Witnesses

Does Asserting Rights Equal Reasonable Suspicion?

I'm Not a Judge but I Play One on TV

9/11 There's No More to My Story

A Real American Hero Outside the RNC

American Express: Scam "Member Projects" Contest Exposed

Judge Lippman Wins 2008 Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence

Junk Science: Lie Detection Outsourced to India

Judge Cassell's Latest Modest Proposal

Utah AG Attacks Lawyers for a Vigorous Defense

Double Deference Brings an Angry Dissent

Fannie, Freddie and Me

When Lawyers Get Too Close to Clients

Disappointment Follows when there is No Murderer

Judicial Fashionista: Does This Robe Make Me Look Fat?

Crystal Blue Persuasion, and Other Failings

When Lawprofs Meet Wikipedia

Lawyer Fashionista: When Suits Shrink, Help Somebody Else

So Whatever Happened to...Judge Tills and Lori Drew

Where Do Sleazebag Ideas Come From?

Prisoner Re-Entry, Even with Bells & Whistles, is Still a Problem

When Cops Aren't Cops at All

Someone in Washington Who Finally Get's It?

He Said, She Said, Jon Stewart Version (Update)

Journalism 101: Don't Get Busted

After Further Deliberations, I've Got Nothing

The Way to Plea

Althouse Knows The Inside of the Onion (Update)

Too Much Information Costs a Chance at Freedom (Update)

Protester Etiquette; Go Quietly into the Night?

Teen Pregnancy is Not a Virtue

New Crime, But No Perp

Sheriff Fletcher's Day in the Sun

Wearing the American Hat

Thoughts on the Return to the Bench

Labor Day 2008, (Surf's Up?)