That slipped out along with some lofty comments about how people need to read more and how he's forced to do his serious reading in the summers between Court terms. That makes some people, like Tony Mauro, the author of the linked article, wonder about rumors that he may be leaving the Court: If he ...

* Much like everything else so far, the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts are stumbling out of the gates. The administration presented Russia with a reset button, which is cute because a) they mistranslated the word “reset” for “overcharge,” (and do they really ...

I've been a bit busy the last couple days, so this will be brief. Included in this post is one opinion out of the other Washington, the Supreme Court opinion in Wyeth. Because there's a lot to do though, I will keep it boiled down to the bare essentials: March 3, 2009 Div. II City of Gig Harbor v. N...

Peter Schuck asserts that "The Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Wyeth v. Levine gives unprecedented power to juries in deciding issues far outside their expertise." This is a very strange claim. The tort system wasn't created this Tuesday; juries, for better or worse, have had the authority to ...

Portland, Oregon has been recently declared the most depressed city in the country. BusinessWeek determined this based on "antidepressant sales, suicide rates, unemployment, divorce, and crappy weather." Philly didn't make the top 20 list. That's because we're too busy enjoying......

Now the waiting game begins. In a three-hour long oral hearing yesterday, justices grappled with the fate of Prop. 8 as gay and lesbian rights attorneys, civil rights lawyers and representatives of both the City of San Francisco and the Attorney General's office asked them to overturn the ban. ...

Plenty of people are pissed off about a NPR report yesterday that characterized gay activists as conducting a "witch hunt" against donors to Yes On 8. "This seems to be an effort to indiscriminately go after anyone who contributed money, regardless of their position on gay issues," says Frank Schube...

"Disaster. They constantly interrupted the gay side with aggressive questions, but let Ken Starr go on and on and on. They were obsessed with the fact that the domestic-partnership law gives the same rights as marriage, and they completely ignored the fact that they so eloquently argued that separat...

According to most of California's major newspapers, today was not our day. San Francisco Chronicle : California Supreme Court justices directed sharp questioning today at attorneys seeking to overturn Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage. Justice Joyce Kennard, one of the justi...

After much brouhaha on the Supreme Court ruling last month regarding rights of expression online, it was summarized that this ruling merely implied that the defendant was not excused from prosecution. We can argue ad nauseaum about the merits of such a ruling but the fact remains that the defendant ...