Yearly Archives: 2009

Dog Bites Gator

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

EYE ON MIAMI: Dog Pack Attacks Gator In Florida … by gimleteye

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Jay Rosen on L’affaire Froomkin

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

This Glenn Grenwald interview with Jay Rosen is quite amazing..

Also piles of links chez DeLong.

Me? Still staying muzzled.

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Law Student Claims Acceptance of Unilateral Offer

Posted on June 20, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

Via Dave Hoffman's I'll Pay You $1,000,000 if this Blog Post Is Wrong, a link to this casebook-ready complaint in a unilateral offer and acceptance case…with a criminal law angle. And the plaintiff is a law student.

Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company, anyone?

Posted in Law: Everything Else | 5 Comments

Sotomayor Quits the Belizean

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

Sotomayor quits women's club after GOP criticism – Yahoo! News

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor resigned Friday from an elite all-women's club after Republicans questioned her participation in it. Sotomayor said she resigned from the Belizean Grove to prevent the issue from becoming a distraction in her confirmation hearings.

Meanwhile, in the lucky-in-her-enemies dept., Judge Sotomayor was snubbed by Senator Inhofe:

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) is dead set on voting against Sonia Sotomayor's nomination. In fact, he's so certain of his position that he refuses to even meet with her.

Sotomayor has been meeting privately with Senators over the last few weeks, but when it was Inhofe's turn, he declined.

Inhofe's spokesman explained that since the Senator has already decided to vote against the nomination, there's no reason to waste time on a sit-down discussion.

Earlier this week, Inhofe called his vote against Sotomayor a “foregone conslusion,” citing his vote against her nomination to a circuit court in 1998.

Given that he's about the craziest Senator not actually known to be guilty of a sexual peccadillo, this is a pretty good enemy to have.

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April Fools Is Early This Year?

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

The UK Daily Telegraph appears to believe that US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive

Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.

The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.

Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.

Not only will this not happen (outside of Flint, anyway), it's probably backwards as increasing gas prices will drive people into city centers for shorter commutes. Only way this happens if if people instead head for exurban centers because the cities are too decrepit. But even so, there's no way the media-savvy Obama administration will sign on to a plan with such lousy optics.

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My Brother Told Me Not to Say Anything

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Michael Froomkin

If you're coming here to read about that, see Glenn Greenwald, Wonkette, or Andrew Sullivan.

Update (6/19): Dan's comments and the Post Ombudman's account.

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