1) Everything is relevant under the FRE. If you can conduct some cockamamie bullshit story about why it might prove one more thing of consequence in the case, it's relevant ( Read more... )

The house is ours.

For the win!

Japan is an island, way across the sea.
I've never been there, but I've heard of the scenery.
They get other cultures to make their stuff
and Cornelius is a pop star.

I'm not crazy about the song, but this video fucking kills.

1) Initial Disgust. What the fuck do these guys think they're doing? Instead of rocking, they're engaging in these fucking weird piano interludes and stupid ambient passages in between the rock. What the hell is with the tribal drumming? Why are there accordions here? Why aren't they rocking.

2) Slight Bemusement. This isn't terrible, but they ( Read more... )

A) Phish, who played a vacuum cleaner on stage, or
B) My Bloody Valentine, who don't play the vacuum cleaner, yet somehow the entire band manages to sound like a chorus of them.

I'm thankful that I'm not sitting next to the same dude I was sitting next to at dinner.

Holy Jesusgod.

1. Has anyone besides me actually listened to Worlds Apart by ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead?
2. Does anyone besides me care?

In 2005, I said that Trail of Dead wrote an album that was so lousy that it actually turned me off to their 2002 effort, Source Tags and Codes (which I absolutely loved) for a good six months. In retrospect, ( Read more... )

So, we're getting ready to embark on a discussion of the Doctrine of Equivalents in my patent law class. My professor recites the facts of the case -- an inventor had created a flux that made it much easier for people who weren't trained welders to weld pipes; the plaintiff's flux contained magnesium, and the defendant's flux contained manganese ( Read more... )

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I kind of hope that plaintiff-friendly torts professors like Mari Matsuda see this.

Universities and colleges, increasingly liable for tortious negligence if a student commits suicide on their campus, have been instead taking the policy that students who express suicidal thoughts should be immediately put on medical leave.

That seem right to you?