Category Archives: law

another one

Everyone’s doing it, and now David Friedman is doing it. What’s wild is that my bookmark chooser showed me his home page, with a prominent link to “My New Blog”, about eleven hours after his first post.

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a symptom of something or other

Each member of the California State Bar Association (which is a state entity) has a number, and the Bar’s website lets you search by number or by name. Barrister No. 1 was William Harrison Waste, admitted in June 1894. The … Continue reading

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how are cases named?

How did the medical marijuana case now before the Supreme Court come to be called Ashcroft v Raich? I gather that it began life as a criminal case, which would normally be titled US v Raich. Or it could be … Continue reading

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heard on the wind

Gary Becker and Richard Posner have a blog (any day now)

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oh goody, an obscure question of common law

(This item was written in October but somehow never got out of “draft” status.) Constructive Trusts and Restitution After Theft: Rasmusen discusses a legal quandary. It hits me that this item calls for a law category not under politics. I’m … Continue reading

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who stole whose concept?

Atheism and Unalienable Rights by Robert E. Meyer (also cited today on RRND): Skeptics want to deny that rights come from God, but if they are correct, then there is no sound philosophical footings undergirding their perpetual claim to any … Continue reading

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GPL goes to court

netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH “To my knowledge, this is the first case in which a judicial decision has been decreed on the applicability and the validity of the GNU GPL”, says Dr. Till Jaeger, … Continue reading

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