En deux temps, trois mouvements, une palette de transport de carrelage a été transformée en un nichoir de fortune pour un couple de cendrées. Le dispositif, placé il y a une semaine dans le parc a été visité par une femelle qui a creusé dans la paille un semblant de nid... verdict dans quel...

Two more amicus briefs supporting the petitioner in Empress Casino Joliet Corp. v. Giannoulias, No. 08-945 (cert. petition filed Jan. 21, 2009) are available. In that case, the Illinois Supreme Court held ( 896 N.E.2d 277 (Ill. 2008) that a regulation which imposes a 3% "surcharge" on Illi...

Bioethicist Jacob M. Appel, who has written that mentally ill people should not be denied the "opportunities" to commit assisted suicide, now pushes mandatory pre-implatation genetic testing in all IVF fertility treatments in order to weed out the unfit (my term) and for whom care would be expensive...

Reasonable people can disagree as to whether cameras should be allowed in the courtroom.  I personally think they should not, because cameras tend to make people do stupid things like wear Star Trek uniforms to court.  But I am willing to suspend that opinion for purposes of any oral argument that...

The U.S. Court of Appeals has denied a petition for rehearing and rehearing en banc in Casitas Municipal Water District v. United States , No. 2007-5153 (Sep. 25, 2008), a decision we noted here.  In September 2008, a panel held that contractual water rights were taken when the federal governm...

An Alaska borough has sought Supreme Court review of the Ninth Circuit's determination in Fairbanks North Star Borough v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , 543 F.3d 586 (9th Cir. 2008) (a decision we analyzed here). The cert petition is posted here (No. 08-1052). The Ninth Circuit held a property o...

The Cato Institute has filed an amicus brief supporting the petitioner in Empress Casino Joliet Corp. v. Giannoulias, No. 08-945 (cert. petition filed Jan. 21, 2009). In that case, the Illinois Supreme Court held ( 896 N.E.2d 277 (Ill. 2008) that a regulation which imposes a 3% "surcharge"...

ProCamera helpt je scherpere foto’s maken. Het bevat ook een zelftimer optie die ervoor zorgt dat je foto’s kan maken met jezelf erop. De accelerometer trekt foto’s indien deze de iPhone in een toestand zonder beweging detecteert. Alsgevolg kan je kiezen tussen verschillende precis...

Plus rustique, mais bien pratique quand l'urgence pointe le bout de son nez, voici un nichoir que les colverts et les sauvagines utilisent volontiers et dont la matière première est... un bête tas de bois. Les cavités font une cinquantaine de centimètres de profondeur , la terre est r...

While at HLS, alumnus Lam Ho was a public interest dynamo. As president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, a supervising member of Reaching Out About Depression (R.O.A.D.), and Founder & Coordinator of the Giving Tree, which raises holiday gifts for children of the HLS clinical and student practic...