The BBC reports on a lawsuit by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals against Sea World. The case argues that killer whales have rights just as humans do and that keeping such whales in captivity violates the constitutional prohibition against slavery. The lawsuit is pending in federal court in San Diego and purportedly was brought [...]
Posts Tagged ‘law’
Provocative Lawsuits, And The Constitutional Rights Of Killer Whales
Posted in America, tagged America, Killer Whales, law, Lawsuits, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA, Slavery, United States Constitution on February 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Up To The Supremes
Posted in America, Healthcare Reform, Politics, tagged America, Health Care Reform, law, President Obama, United States Supreme Court on November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to accept one of the appeals addressing President Obama’s health care statute, and thereby has set the stage for one of the most anticipated legal rulings in years. In its order accepting the case, the Supreme Court identified four issues for the parties to brief and set aside five-and-a-half [...]
Latin Jazz Lameness
Posted in America, Music, tagged Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, America, Grammys, Latin Jazz, law, Lawsuits, Music on August 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In April, the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences voted to reduce the number of categories for which “Grammys” are rewarded, from 109 to 78. One of the categories that will be eliminated is “Latin Jazz.” The artists who formerly competed in that genre-specific category will now have to compete in a more general category, [...]
Eyelid Woman And Unnecessary Surgeries Gone Bad
Posted in America, tagged America, law, Life, modern culture, News, Plastic Surgery, Surgery Risks, Unnecessary Surgery on March 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
From New Jersey comes the unhappy story of a woman whose plastic surgery left her unable to fully close her eyes. She went in to fix “bumps on her eyelids” left by an earlier cosmetic procedure and was left with her current condition. So, she’s suing the surgeon. It turns out that she has [...]
Uncle Mack Hangs Up His Spurs
Posted in Family, World, tagged Corinne Webner, Family, Intellectual Property, law, Mack Webner, retirement, Watership Down, Work, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I got an e-mail from William Mack Webner — known to me as Uncle Mack — announcing that he is officially retired from the practice of law. His decision to retire marks the end of more than 40 years of practicing as one of the premier intellectual property lawyers in the country. It has [...]
Golf In The Courtroom
Posted in America, sports, tagged America, Golf, Golfing injuries, law, New York, sports on November 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Who is responsible for personal injuries caused by an errant shot in golf? In a recently argued case, New York’s highest court will decide that question. The scenario is familiar to anyone who has taken clubs out onto the links. One golfer is getting ready to hit a shot from the rough while a fellow [...]
More Diversity Please !
Posted in America, Politics, tagged America, Elena Kagan, law, Politics, United States Supreme Court on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I read Bob’s recent post on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the United States Supreme Court and I was quite happy to see the president nominate another woman to our highest court in the land. Bob’s post mentioned that there is diversity of race and gender on the court, but I guess I don’t feel that there is enough diversity [...]
You Don’t Have To Be A Judge . . .
Posted in America, Politics, tagged America, Elena Kagan, Harvard, law, Politics, United States Supreme Court, Yale on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
. . . to be on the Supreme Court, and therefore it doesn’t bother me one bit that Elena Kagan hasn’t served on the bench. Over the years, many Supreme Court Justices, including some who had an enormous impact on the Court and its jurisprudence, had no prior judicial experience. No, what bothers me is [...]
A Fine Line And A Delicate Balance
Posted in America, Politics, tagged America, Congress, law, Politics, Presidency, President Obama, Separation Of Powers, United States Constitution, White House on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The disturbing “gatecrashing” incident at the White House has resulted in one of those difficult judgment calls that Presidents and their legal counsel inevitably are required to make. The incident is, quite properly, being investigated by Congress. Congress no doubt will look at how the security breach occurred, consider how it could have been prevented, [...]
You Give Law A Bad Name
Posted in America, Reflections, tagged law, modern culture, News media on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a lawyer, I dread this kind of news story. A disappointed graduate who doesn’t have a job sues her college for tuition payments, and it is covered as another weird news story, just like the stories about women who live with 125 cats or twins separated at birth who find each other after living [...]
Ads and Subtraction
Posted in Reflections, tagged law, newspapers on May 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This article argues for an antitrust exemption for newspapers, so that all newspaper owners can get together and collusively decide to begin charging for on-line content at the same time. What’s interesting about the article is not the opinion — after all, every struggling industry could argue that the path to salvation is allowing participants [...]
Withheld Judgment
Posted in Politics, tagged law, Politics, President Obama, Supreme Court on May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, has served for 11 years on the United States Court of the Appeals for the Second Circuit, which is one of the most important of the federal appellate courts. The Second Circuit’s jurisdiction includes New York City, and for that reason many of the most [...]
Trial By Tribunal
Posted in Politics, tagged law, President Bush, President Obama on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is an interesting take on the President’s decision to resort to a form of military tribunal to address charges against certain Guantanamo detainees. I recognize that there are multiple views on this issue, but the reality is that there is no clear answer to how to deal with the problem of what to do [...]
