We’ll update this story as it develops, but Mojo just brought to our attention that a 5.4 magnitutde earthquake rocked downtown Los Angeles today. The Hypo’s hopes and prayers go out to those affected. Since this is a legal blog, this includes those poor slobs who were taking the California Bar today.
I’m not making [...]
Sometimes the news is just chock full of interesting legal stories that we just don’t know where to turn. the last two days have presented an embarrassment of riches, and so I’ve decided to throw them all together in our first installment of “Legal Briefs.”
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Let’s talk UN War Crimes Tribunal. Thoughts?
The UN War Crimes Tribunal has said it’s ready for the extradition of Radovan Karadžic from Belgrade. Karadžic was, of course, a war crimes fugitive captured earlier this year by Yugoslavian authorities. A Belgrade court is currently considering extraditing him to the UN War Crimes Tribunal in The [...]
So, I’ve got wine on the brain. Mrs. Sherpa and I recently spent a long weekend in the Napa Valley tasting wine and enjoying some time away from the craziness of life.
Since I’ve been back the Freakonomics blog has posted several times on the blind tasting of wine and how most [...]
Last night, I found myself watching a documentary about Heidi Fleiss, and her attempts to open a male brothel in Nevada. Like most HBO documentaries, I found myself unable to turn away. Partly, it was to stare, wide-eyed, at the plastic surgery Fleiss has had, which makes her look like Skeletor. I also [...]
Being a life long resident of Washington, D.C., I’m used to seeing Members of Congress engage in all types of election year high jinks. You’ve got to go and sell it to the good people back in Omaha or Sacramento that you’ve getting it done for them. Similarly, you don’t want your opponent to be [...]
I have always enjoyed summer school. I took summer classes in both undergrad and in my masters program. Summer was always more laid back. The classes are more compacted because of the shorter time frame, and that meant no filler and just good information that helped teach the subject. And at my undergrad and grad [...]
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