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Just in: My share of the Apple e-books class action settlement is $2.10.
I shall endeavor to not spend it all in one place. Altho, since it was awarded as Amazon credit, I literally have to spend it in one place.
I shall endeavor to not spend it all in one place. Altho, since it was awarded as Amazon credit, I literally have to spend it in one place.
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I used my $1.90 from the Apple eBook Settlement to buy a 10% stake in a pair of running shorts. Wooo.
I hope the lawyers were also paid in Amazon store credit.
I hope the lawyers were also paid in Amazon store credit.
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In a post-cable world, having to find the game on FS1 seems like poor marketing.
Baseball deserves better than MLB.
Baseball deserves better than MLB.
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My Constitutional Liberties class should really be subtitled as "This week in Gay Rights" as about 10 of 13 weeks so far have had the lectures centered around that topic. It's not improper on its face but it tells me my prof is either pushing his agenda or wildly non-creative, or both.
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Ask him when the class is going to get to the most important constitutional right, namely, the Second Amendment RKBA. That should reveal his leanings.
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More important than the 3rd?
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My Constitutional Liberties class should really be subtitled as "This week in Gay Rights" as about 10 of 13 weeks so far have had the lectures centered around that topic. It's not improper on its face but it tells me my prof is either pushing his agenda or wildly non-creative, or both.
Out of curiosity, is the argument the penumbra rights thing, or the 14th Amendment, or both, or something else?
Because those two are a huge fount of creative legal thought (whether you agree with them or not).
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I think it might also have something to do with the fact that gay rights are the most topical over the last decade or so, and thus the most current eventsy.
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10 of 13 weeks in a "Constitutional Liberties" class on one single Constitutional issue cheats the student immensely.
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Transfer to Pitt.
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They don't have a night program. I do plan to apply to Duquense.
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Oh yeah. Even if the class is sticking more to "liberties" and avoiding criminal or quasi-criminal topics like warrantless tracking, warrantless email interception, etc., there are still plenty of topical matters. The RKBA is in fact an evolving area of law, as are other topics like contraception coverage, free speech and "hate speech", and the intersection of public-accommodation laws and the First Amendment (before the SCOTUS right now in Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission ).
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This is a Con Liberties course, so it's not all encompassing. I'll take Con Powers and Con Crim Procedure next semester. I don't expect everything right away, nor do I want it with both barrels like that.
This is what we've done so far:
Wk1: General Constitution foundational stuff; compare and contrast to the Swiss Constitution.
Wk2-4: 1A, unprotected speech.
Wk5: 1A, Religion Clauses
Wk6: 14A
Wk7: Abortion / Planned Parenthood / Gonzales v. Carhart
Wk8: Privacy (redwill's penumbras)
Wk9: Right to Travel, Right to Bear Arms, Equal Protection Clause.
Wk10: Race discrimination and Equal Protection, marriage, AA
Wk11: Equal Protection and sex.
Wk13: Fundamental Rights and Equal Protection
He openly derides Libertarians in his lectures so I already have a pretty good idea; he chides us as being ineffectual dreamers, which isn't completely wrong.Ask him when the class is going to get to the most important constitutional right, namely, the Second Amendment RKBA. That should reveal his leanings.
It saddens me when you fail to give me any credit. I know my prof is a LGBT advocate, it's his pet cause. He goes on MN NPR and talks about it, panels our diversity conferences, teaches LBGT centric-courses, etc. I don't have any issue with that on its own at all. I do feel the 'cause' is shoehorned into an awful lot of discussions that are out of place. This isn't the first prof that has done something similar since I've been here but he's the most persistent by a mile. I looked over the syllabus for this week and this was our video lecture schedule:I think it might also have something to do with the fact that gay rights are the most topical over the last decade or so, and thus the most current eventsy.
Many of our weeks are like this, that second video is redundant and self-serving. It's his right and I'll study it either way but it's tiresome, is all. Not because I don't enjoy the perspective but I wonder what he's not bothering to include as relevant examples that might affect other groups.View Professor's video on sex discrimination under Equal Protection analysis.
View Professors video on sexual orientation discrimination under Equal Protection analysis.
View Professor’s video on classifications based on status as an alien and the status of being intellectually disabled.
This is what we've done so far:
Wk1: General Constitution foundational stuff; compare and contrast to the Swiss Constitution.
Wk2-4: 1A, unprotected speech.
Wk5: 1A, Religion Clauses
Wk6: 14A
Wk7: Abortion / Planned Parenthood / Gonzales v. Carhart
Wk8: Privacy (redwill's penumbras)
Wk11: Equal Protection and sex.
Wk13: Fundamental Rights and Equal Protection
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I've been 'following' Masterpiece through podcasts like First Mondays. I'm going to campus next week for my residency requirement and presume we'll discuss it as a group then.
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Bryan Garner was in town yesterday doing one of his "Advanced Legal Writing and Editing" CLE seminars, which is the first one he's done in Pittsburgh in many years. Of course I went, because I view an opportunity to meet Garner (again) much the same way a devout Catholic would view an opportunity to meet the Pope. Great program as always. Garner is the master of legal writing. I also learned that Garner is writing a book that will cover his friendship and collaborations with the late Justice Scalia.
Really disappointed in the turnout, though; there were only about 20 lawyers there. There should have been hundreds.
Really disappointed in the turnout, though; there were only about 20 lawyers there. There should have been hundreds.
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It was expensive af.
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Not for me; my firm pays for CLE.
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I thought about going even though I'm not the target demographic. I have the feeling that if I'm going to make it in this profession it's going to be as a writer and not an orator, so I'm working to build that skillset early.
But he didn't have any kind of reduced pricing for non-lawyers, and I'm out of town anyway. Shame though given the sparse turnout.
But he didn't have any kind of reduced pricing for non-lawyers, and I'm out of town anyway. Shame though given the sparse turnout.
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The shitty thing about law school, and I guess any program with a grade structure like this, is that when you do poorly on an exercise of some sort the only comfort you can find is reaching deep down and hoping everyone else does worse.
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I would also comfort myself with the fact that most of what one does in law school has bugger-all to do with the actual practice of law.
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Tell that to the JARO pls k thx.
I'm carrying an A this far, I'd like to keep it.
I'm carrying an A this far, I'd like to keep it.
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law school is basically a trade school, only the trade is "law professor" and 99% of students aren't there for that job
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Anybody thoughts on the paranormal author, would be federal judge for life from Alabama? If I read correctly, he's been practicing law for 3 years.
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Wait.
Are you saying I'm not actually equipped to argue a 12(b)6 motion in open court?
Nawwww.
Are you saying I'm not actually equipped to argue a 12(b)6 motion in open court?
Nawwww.
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