Simple Justice: Recent Comments

Comment on Coming to a PD Near You!!!

2012-02-12T21:48:04Z

I've been trying to think of why a local PD needs this toy. I realized maybe they needed it for a situation like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuzhMavivNM

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Comment on Fear of Flying

2012-02-12T20:51:38Z

Like many young lawyers, you mistake a critical concern as personal hostility. There's no reason for any personal hostility toward you (though it's perfectly understandable from a narcissistic perspective that it's all about you). Rather, when you write for the purupose of rationalizing why your marketing approach reflects the paradigm of propriety, you invite scrutiny. And as someone recently said, criticism comes with the territory.

But I'm not saying lawyers should write interesting blogs. I'm saying lawyers should write about things that matter, that make a difference for the betterment of others. I am not saying lawyers should try to be "interesting" as they hawk their wares. So it looks like you missed the point all around.

As to your PPS, it takes no special skill to become a Rakofsky defendant. Lots of "risk averse" and otherwise uncontroversial bloggers are in there. It hardly makes you special.

Comment on Who's The Boss?

2012-02-12T20:02:54Z

I think the UK is a useful example of televised Supreme Courts. We have had a Supreme Court for considerably less time than we have had TV cameras. That meant there was the chance to decide if there should be cameras in the Supreme Court from the very beginning, rather than taking a long-running institution and fiddling with it.

I can say that I watched the first 90 minutes of my country's Supreme Court just to say that I did, given that I was a law student at the time and it's legally quite a big deal, and never have again.

Comment on Coming to a PD Near You!!!

2012-02-12T18:38:43Z

I'd really like to see SWAT teams stripped of qualified immunity. They come in with such force and violence that any mistake is likely to be fatal to someone just standing there wondering innocently WTF is happening. The dogs aren't safe either.

Comment on Who's The Boss?

2012-02-12T18:37:02Z

If the Supremes decide to have a web we can see how well they can compete with ant farm cam.

Comment on Fear of Flying

2012-02-12T17:38:18Z

After cutting through the thicket of personal hostility towards me, I think we agree that lawyers should write interesting blogs.

P.S. Not sure how I gave Jim Dedman a "backhanded compliment." He discounted the risk of cross-exam-by-blog, I agreed, and I wrote about some other risks, too, risks you seem to agree are all real and are more likely than being cross-examined by your blog.

P.P.S. It's interesting that you would refer to me as an "excellent poster-boy for risk aversion." AFAIK, we're co-defendants in some little case in NY precisely because we aren't "risk averse." Readers can peruse my posts and come to their own conclusions about that.

Comment on Coming to a PD Near You!!!

2012-02-12T15:20:38Z

Third Amendment? Anyone? Bueler?

Comment on CyberBullying: "We know it when we see it"

2012-02-12T14:35:43Z

Heh. If you don't know who the bully at your school was, then it was you.

Comment on CyberBullying: "We know it when we see it"

2012-02-12T14:01:49Z

I was never bullied. In fact, I don't even recall seeing anyone bullied, couldn't tell you who the bully at my school was.

Could be repressed memories though.

Comment on Who's The Boss?

2012-02-12T00:55:12Z

Dang, that's good. I would trademark it before Fox steals it.