“This is literally a playground that’s for 2- to 5-year-olds,” says former preschool teacher Katie Courtney. Life in D.C. isn’t all sunshine and Fudge Rounds. Parody of Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond“ written and performed by Remy LYRICS: I’ve been working till the break of 4:45 I get an automatic raise and…
From Livesay Law Office v. Ricartea, decided Thursday by the Texas Court of Appeals (Corpus Christi-Edinburg), in an opinion by Chief Justice Dori Contreras, joined by Justices Gina Benavides and Nora Longoria, reversing an order by Judge Fernando Mancias: The underlying case is a divorce proceeding in which appellant … filed a motion for sanctions……
GMU adjunct law professor Brandy Wagstaff tells her own story and some of her students’ From today’s Fifth Circuit decision in Bailey v. Iles, written by Judge Dana Douglas and joined by Judges Patrick Higginbotham and James Graves: Bailey lives in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana. On March 20, 2020—during the first month of the…
The Semafor editor and former BuzzFeed News editor in chief on the online media explosion of the 2000s. In October 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a shortage of amphetamine mixed salts, the active ingredient in Adderall. At the time, the FDA indicated that the shortage could last until March 2023. But the…
8/27/1948: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes dies. The federal government might soon take an interest in how many cold ones you’ve been cracking open. George Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, tells the Daily Mail that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) might soon revise its dietary guidelines to recommend that…
The Wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBRYJbB43LQ Andrey Makarevich is an influential and pioneering Russian singer and songwriter. He founded what is apparently the oldest continuing Russian rock band, Time Machine, in 1969, and has continued to record and perform to this day. He has emerged as a prominent critic of Russian’s invasion of Ukraine, and moved from Russia……
An interesting empirical study looks at whether better briefs lead to better outcomes. When Kamala Harris was asked about whether she’d support a ban on plastic straws during a 2019 CNN town hall event, the then-senator and presidential candidate briefly made a stab at appearing human and folksy by talking about how much she hated…
I’m delighted to report that Prof. Nicholas Nugent (Univ. of Tennessee) will be guest-blogging this week about his new Washington Law Review article, The Five Internet Rights. The Abstract: Since the dawn of the commercial internet, content moderation has operated under an implicit social contract that website operators could accept or reject users and content as……
The Chicago Police Department said it is investigating an incident in which officers apprehended a man identified by witnesses as the person who attacked another man on the Magnificent Mile, then let him go without filing a report. A local media outlet reports that at least three people tried to file a report on the……
A Texas judge ordered that the airline submit to training on the rights of religious believers after losing a religious discrimination lawsuit. 8/26/1964: Lyndon B. Johnson nominated as Democratic candidate for president. He would make two appointments to the Supreme Court: Justices Abe Fortas and Thurgood Marshall. President Johnson’s appointees to the Supreme Court The…
