The blog stylings of a few students at The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law.
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Nice Civ Pro Hypo

No.634 gives us this good and entertaining civ pro hypo.

The Subway Hypo

Tonight in Con Law we started on nonverbal conduct as speech warranting First Amendment protection and finished up the classes of speech that can be regulated with a quick overview of commercial speech.

Because one of the examples our professor used as a permissible regulation was burning things in your fireplace, I got to thinking on [...]

The IRS and “Egregious Governmental Conduct”

Quote from my Admin casebook on application of estoppel to suits against government: “Of course, no list of egregious governmental conduct would be complete without a case from the Internal Revenue Service.”

The Proverbial Question

Professor says we’ll cover a certain amount of reading during given weeks. We skip going over two weeks of reading that was listed on syllabus. Are students still responsible for knowing said skipped reading, which in this case amounts to 85 pages? (I’m inclined to say yes, but I’ve never liked the idea.)

Funyuns Would Have Been Cheaper.

Yesterday, I was having a rather intense discussion with an owner’s representative about one of my projects when it was rudely interrupted by a drug bust. Four Arlington County, VA (maybe they were State Troopers) jumped out of a van, raid vests on, guns drawn and surrounded this beat to crap Honda Civic, while another  [...]

Getting to Deregulation

I had a brain cramp last night in Admin. I just couldn’t grasp what the professor was asking me when I was briefing a case. He wanted me to state the effect of a certain agency interpretation of a statute that required carriers to do business with shippers “reasonably.” The agency interpreted this to allow [...]

Going to Law School Part-Time

Luke Gilman has posted this very thoughtful post on going to law school part-time. I think there’s much merit in what he says. I certainly agree with his criteria for choosing a school, but add some thoughts on what they mean for evening students and on my current opinion (subject to change) that you should [...]