Thread of legal hubbub

columbia
Posts: 34731
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:23 am
Location: South Baldwin Yinzer Strokefest

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby columbia » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:32 pm

IANAL, so I don’t place law school classes on a pedestal above other forms of education.

A professor tearing apart my understanding of the Lumpenproletariat might have embarrassed me, but it did cause me to rethink some of my assessments of 19th century class struggles.

I obviously recognize that you have a very different practical view on the matter.

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:35 pm

I'm not upset, just expressing empathy for my classmates.

This wasn't borne from interaction or used as a teaching point. It's the first line of our required textbook. It just seems like odd and desperate, like a teenager that can't express themselves so they swear a lot.

columbia
Posts: 34731
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:23 am
Location: South Baldwin Yinzer Strokefest

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby columbia » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:39 pm

I really came in here to ask about the rationality of using something like Legal Zoom for a basic will.

Danke

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Mon Jan 15, 2018 10:40 pm

Just put it on a cocktail napkin. It'll stand up in court if you really meant it.

Shyster
Posts: 13093
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:08 pm
Location: Nullius in verba

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby Shyster » Tue Jan 16, 2018 6:28 pm

At least the professor didn't call the police "the largest criminal street gang in the United States," which is what I would call them if I were teaching that class.

meow
Posts: 30451
Joined: Thu Mar 26, 2015 8:53 am
Location: I have four degrees and am a moron. Don’t let that fool you

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby meow » Tue Jan 16, 2018 6:55 pm

I really came in here to ask about the rationality of using something like Legal Zoom for a basic will.

Danke
I am also interested in this.

willeyeam
Posts: 39563
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby willeyeam » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:02 pm

My mom got picked to be in a grand jury pool. There'll be 200 and out of those they will pick 50. Anyway if she gets picked she has to go for a week per month for 18 months. Nuts! At $40 a day. Pretty crazy for that amount of time

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:06 pm

In California you can't work for a year. I read a case about a federal employee that kept volunteering to be renewed and she got fired.

willeyeam
Posts: 39563
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby willeyeam » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:33 pm

That's hard to fathom. If I had to take a year off, I'd get behind on regs, plain development, lose relationships. Just crazy, I never knew they worked anything like that

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:40 pm

It is a year, but you have to apply. I didn't know the second part.

willeyeam
Posts: 39563
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 12:49 pm
Location: hodgepodge of nothingness

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby willeyeam » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:55 pm

It is a year, but you have to apply. I didn't know the second part.
Oh gotcha. Different story then

columbia
Posts: 34731
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:23 am
Location: South Baldwin Yinzer Strokefest

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby columbia » Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:57 pm

As a non-lawyer, tif is barred from this thread.

tifosi77
Posts: 51511
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:07 pm
Location: Batuu

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby tifosi77 » Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:22 pm

In California you can't work for a year. I read a case about a federal employee that kept volunteering to be renewed and she got fired.
Where in the world did you hear this? GJs are empaneled for a year at a time in some instances (the rules are different state vs fed), but what you are suggesting would narrow the pool down to the homeless and independently wealthy. I think CA federal GJs only meet one day a week.

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:27 pm


tifosi77
Posts: 51511
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:07 pm
Location: Batuu

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby tifosi77 » Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:50 pm

That is a stunted manager, not established procedure or law.

http://www.ventura.org/become-a-grand-juror
Each grand jury establishes its own work schedule. Historically, committee meetings are held Tuesday through Thursday. Mondays and Fridays are used for protocol visits, interviews, and other tasks. During a weekly general meeting a full panel of jurors is vital to productive discussion and decision making. Time off is coordinated with the foreperson.
She only needed to report 1 or 2 days a week. She would have otherwise been available for her regular duty. (Presuming the Navy allows for part-time jury duty)

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:55 am

And this is why it would be just super if your state could just go ahead and secede already.

tifosi77
Posts: 51511
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:07 pm
Location: Batuu

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby tifosi77 » Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:03 am

Oh please, the rules outlined above are less onerous than the PA rules. (one week a month for 18 months)

I mean, I get it.... "'California', amirite"...... but come on.

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:19 am

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/ ... nt_guilty/
Jurors in Comal County, Texas, weren’t swayed when the judge entered the jury room and said that God told him the defendant wasn’t guilty.

Judge Jack Robison said God told him to let jurors know that Gloria Romero Perez should not be convicted, report the Austin American-Statesman and the San Antonio Express-News. Robison spoke with jurors after they signaled they had reached their verdict, jury foreman Mark House told the Express-News.
Speaking to Shyster's earlier point that judges are just like everyone else; they're often flawed, stupid people.

Silentom
Posts: 18138
Joined: Thu Mar 26, 2015 3:00 pm
Location: NTP66 lied about watching the game.
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby Silentom » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:20 am

Wowzers.

Shyster
Posts: 13093
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:08 pm
Location: Nullius in verba

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby Shyster » Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:54 pm

Ken "Popehat" White has a new podcast series on the First Amendment and free speech. It's very well done.

https://www.popehat.com/

Freddy Rumsen
Posts: 35313
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:50 am
Location: "Order is the only possibility of rest." -- Wendell Berry

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby Freddy Rumsen » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:19 pm

He's pretty good on the twitters, even if his rabid never Trumperism has blinded him a bit in the past year.

tifosi77
Posts: 51511
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:07 pm
Location: Batuu

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby tifosi77 » Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:57 pm

My BIL lives in FL, and for the last three weeks has been dealing with all the stuff surrounding the death of his and Mrs Tif's mom. Today, he was served in a student loan debt collection.

TIL a 16 year old minor (his son) can accept service of process in FL.

dodint
Posts: 59160
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:39 pm
Location: Cheer up, bіtch!
Contact:

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby dodint » Fri Feb 16, 2018 11:40 am

One of my professors, Eric Tostrud was nominated Monday by Trump to serve as a district judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.

He is the only professor I've had that I find intimidating. Not in a bad way, but the guy is tight and crisp and when he talks you just listen. Most of my profs are either the personification of a talking dictionary or want to be your best friend. Prof Tostrud is the real deal. He's also an alum, so it's nice to see the degree isn't entirely useless. ;)

AuthorTony
Posts: 8950
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:18 am

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby AuthorTony » Tue Feb 20, 2018 10:24 pm

A question for the fellows in 5thAveLand smarter than me...

In 2005 I licensed a movie I produced to a film distribution company. That deal was for 5 years and included the right of first refusal. No additional contracts were signed. It has recently come to my attention that the company that licensed the film in 2005 is still "selling" it and has deals for online distribution via Amazon, Youtube, etc.

Am I wrong in thinking any money they've made off the film since 2010 was obtained by less than ethical means since our original contract was never extended? If so, I'm sure it wouldn't amount to more than a few thousand dollars so I don't know that there's much point in pursuing the matter legally, but I'm a little irked.

Shyster
Posts: 13093
Joined: Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:08 pm
Location: Nullius in verba

Thread of legal hubbub

Postby Shyster » Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:33 pm

You are not wrong. The contract expired, so they are distributing your product without permission.

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: MrKennethTKangaroo, skullman80 and 108 guests