Monthly Archives: September 2008

Ike (1)

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

Ike seems to be drifting away from us. But you can't be too careful. We're open Monday. Here's the latest official law school news:

The University's Emergency Advisory Committee (“EAC”) met today at 3:00 P.M. to discuss the progress of Hurricane Ike. The University and the Law School will be open for all daytime classes and activities tomorrow, Monday, September 8th, 2008, and the current plan is to be open for all Monday evening classes and activities as well. However, the EAC will meet tomorrow at 6:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m. to decide if any changes have to be made to the evening schedule. We will send an updated email and update the Law School's website following each of these meetings. For those of you with evening classes and activities, please make sure to check your email and visit the website during the day tomorrow. No decisions have been made about Tuesday.

I wouldn't be surprised if the U. closes on Tuesday, and it feels like an excess of caution on Wednesday.

It's perfectly nice out at present…

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Zinger

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

Someone at Jack and Jill Politics has a wicked sense of humor.

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Annette Taddeo Wins

Posted on September 7, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

No, not the election — not yet anyway.

But, Annette Taddeo won the contest at Act Blue by getting the most online donors. So thank you to all readers who sent something in.

Here's the letter from Taddeo announcing the victory,

We won the Blue America online contest with 557 votes, 161 more than any other candidate!

Thanks to you – we banked $15,813 and became the #1 candidate across all of ActBlue.

Thank you to all who voted by contributing $1 or more – and thank you to those who had friends and family vote.

Your small contributions and your relentless grassroots outreach made a big difference!

Thank you so much for your support,

Annette Taddeo

Now, if Debbie Wasserman-Schultz would just get with the program and open her checkbook before it's too late…

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Like You Need This

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

For all those parents who think their kids don't play with their food enough: HOWTO Make Tetris brownies.

I don't think so.

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Much Ado About … What?

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Michael Froomkin

The item to which Andrew Sullivan links in Here We Go is slashdotted, so I don't know what this is all about, but other people seem to be seriously tantalized. Here's all Sullivan said,

Todd Palin's former business partner files an emergency motion to have his divorce papers sealed. Oh God.

Myself, I'd rather people were talking about how the more war, less jobs candidate has tried to become Richard Nixon, and run as a candidate of peace and prosperity. Or maybe how weird it is for McCain to try to run away from the same George Bush he (literally) embraced and voted with 90-95% of the time for each of the past four years.

Update: Thanks to the helpful Coralize function, I've got what seems to be the docket to which Sullivan linked, reproduced in full below. What's all the fuss about? In any case, the motion seems to have been denied, so I guess we'll know…

Update2 (9/6): Thanks to reader mcg, whose comment points us to The Smoking Gun, in which the motion to seal seems to be about protecting phone numbers and addresses from the prying eyes of a hoard of reporters.

It seems to me that while the court was surely right in denying the full sealer request, there ought to be a mechanism that would allow a party to request redaction of phone numbers, and perhaps even addresses, in these sorts of circumstances.

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