By Casebook Sherpa, on October 30th, 2008
It’s funny how gambling keeps coming up here. Some of us here at FTH like the gambling more than others. I don’t mind it, but don’t do it all that much. It just seems to offer some good fodder for hypoing.
Did you see this? Two large sports books in Las Vegas declared the Philadelphia Phillies [...]
By Dr. Bombay, on October 28th, 2008
It’s not every day that a sitting U.S. Senator goes on trial for corruption. So watching Ted Stevens get clobbered with eight counts of failure to report “gifts” is something to see. Some of us had speculated that the crappy job the Feds did in putting on the case would actually set the old man [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on October 22nd, 2008
So I’m on a law journal this year. I don’t say that to brag. Trust me. Let’s just put it this way, a friend told me that it’s good I’m being the guinea pig so the rest of our friends can see what it’s like. I got the impression she said it because it takes [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on October 21st, 2008
In light of our Con Law classes on the shocking breadth of Congress’ Commerce power, I found this column by (free reg. re’d) Robert Levy on the Legal Times website quite interesting In it he contends that the bailout was short-sighted and, most importantly, unconstitutional. Despite my serious misgivings about the bailout plan (my concerns [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on October 13th, 2008
I have the highest of hopes to have regular features on this blog. But they typically get lost in the law school shuffle. This is one that I hope will last. I’m not making any promises but it is already at least a recurring theme – if not explicit feature – in my writing here.
The [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on October 9th, 2008
We sincerely hope that our fellow 2L (at the University of Houston), Luke Gilman, will forgive our reposting his resolution praising ESPN360. His resolution is brilliant. We so strongly agree with his motivation and are so pleased that espn360.com is also available at our law school that we cannot but share in his joy and [...]
By Casebook Sherpa, on October 6th, 2008
The title of this blog notwithstanding there are actually areas where you shouldn’t fight the hypo. Evidence is one such time. As BigShow has intimated, it’s not the best class we’ve ever had. But it’s an important topic and our professor approaches the exam the way more professors should – it’s like the Bar [...]
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