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Legal Briefs (Dubious Lawyers Edition).

Posted on October 02, 2008
If you’re like us, you’re busy making final preparation for your big “VEEP Debate” watching party tonight. Make sure you keep plenty of whatever the heck to official food of Delaware and Alaska are handy. And some Rolaids. Free the Fairbanks One! When BigShow first floated the idea that Alaska Senator Ted Stevens would walk [...

Legal Drafting, Executive Compensation, and the Bailout Plan

Posted on September 29, 2008
The bailout plan that Congress will vote on this morning is an interesting mix of handouts to failing banks and market incentives to insure failing - or potentially failing - mortgage-backed securities. The latter objective, among others, is what hung up the bill on Friday...

Speechless

Posted on September 24, 2008
I’m simply speechless. I’ll just copy the story here in its entirety: A Lexington man, now famous for how many times he’s been arrested, is again making headlines. Yesterday, Henry Earl answered to a judge on a charge of alcohol intoxication - a crime he’s now committed one-thousand times...

Going After Honda.

Posted on September 23, 2008
I have a Honda that I?ve driven for 8 years. I bought it new and maintained it properly. I was lukewarm about the car when I bought it, but I?ve come to love it for its reliability and fuel economy. I mention this because about two weeks ago, the air conditioner blew up...

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Dr. Burton Sums it Up.

Posted on September 22, 2008
In light of our discussion on political advertising and its truthfulness, I ran into this very timely article in Salon today by a Dr. Robert Burton, former head of medicine at Mt. Zion-UCSF Hospital and the author of “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not...

Alternate Careers: NFL Referee

Posted on September 18, 2008
You always hear about other jobs people can do with a law degree. Here’s the coolest I’ve heard of so far: NFL Referee. Ed Hochuli is Referee #85 in the National Football League.� A fact I didn’t know until this week when I heard that he was getting hate mail at his law firm as a [...

Pondering ?Truth? in Political Advertising?

Posted on September 17, 2008
So I’m pondering whether we need some tighter regs on political advertising. My fingers are burning as I type that. How can I possibly oppose McCain-Feingold but wonder whether we need tighter regulations on political advertising, you ask? It’s a good question...

So Amazing, I Can?t Think of a Pithy Title.

Posted on September 16, 2008
Sometimes, legislation comes along that blows your mind. You know the type: devoid of any practical considerations and fodder for hundreds of lawsuits. There always seems to be an uptick in this silliness in election years, presumably to motivate single issue voters to head to the polls...

5 Blogs and 5 Bloggers

Posted on September 16, 2008
Fight the Hypo has been tagged for the first time (by Victoria Pynchon at the Settle It Now Negotiation). Our “5 Things” task is to list 5 non-law blogs that we like and link to (or tag) 5 blawgers who should do the same. First, these blawgers are tagged: No...

Did Obama Violate the Logan Act?

Posted on September 15, 2008
The better question is: can we really even know? So, Mrs. Sherpa and I watched Charlie Wilson’s War this weekend. We had seen it before but were hoping to find a movie we knew was good and entertaining. It was. Even the second time. But a line caught my attention...

Cabs, Contracts, and Horse Racing

Posted on September 10, 2008
A couple of weeks ago, I went up to Saratoga Springs for the Travers Stakes. For those of you who are not degenerate horse gamblers (like me) you might not know that the Travers is the oldest Grade 1 stakes race in the country. You may also not know that the sleepy hamlet of Saratoga [...

Second Year Evening Students - An Exercise in Frustration

Posted on September 08, 2008
As evening students, our “first year” course load is spread out over a total of two years. Where a first year day student would have Crim, Con Law, Evidence, Contracts, Property, etc. during his first year, we in the evening division get our classes split up...

Will Someone Please Sue Major League Baseball?. Pretty Please?

Posted on August 28, 2008
I’d love to see a big-time lawsuit over steroids in baseball. I don’t know why. I’m not really a big fan of lawsuits generally. But I think it would make for great theater and there has to be a way to get at the owners who, while not injecting B12 into Clemens’s hindquarters, encouraged d-bags [...

Law School as Excuse

Posted on August 26, 2008
No real substance to write about at the moment. It’s been several weeks now of serious FTH writer’s block for me. Just can’t seem to focus my thoughts and energies enough to write something that (a) makes sense (b) actually says something and (c) doesn’t sound like whining about being back in class (because, frankly, [...

Single In School - Take One

Posted on June 13, 2008
Sherpa and the good Dr. have asked me to shed some light on being the single girl in law school. And here?s my first crack at it?. By day I have a decent desk job and by night I?m a slave to the evening law program. Through the whole experience, I?ve managed to balance work, school, [...

Just Answer My Question!

Posted on June 10, 2008
Maybe it’s just the heat, but I’m a bit frustrated at my school. The law school cafe isn’t open during the summer. I’m still waiting on grades (just one left, though). The financial aid office hasn’t been very communicative...

And For Dessert, I?d Like the Death Penalty, Please

Posted on June 09, 2008
Here’s a question for you: should someone who requests the death penalty be prohibited from receiving it? From Friday’s New York Times: [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed], the former senior operations chief for Al Qaeda, said he would represent himself and dared the Guant�namo tribunal to put him to death...

CKBL 1, MLB 0.

Posted on June 02, 2008
A tip of the hat to The Commissioner, who brought to my attention that today the Supreme Court, got one right. Specifically, they declined to hear without comment Major League Baseball?s appeal of a November ruling from the 8th Circuit stating that the 1st Amendment trumped baseball?s right to rob us...

Top 10 Things I Hate About Law School

Posted on June 02, 2008
A Top Ten list is like penicillin, the catch-all means of remedying writer’s block, and I’ve had the bird flu of writer’s block of late. So, thought I’d put together some lists of stuff I like and hate about law school, hopefully with our loyal readers adding to the random stuff I include...

Reaction to FLDS decision

Posted on May 30, 2008
I’m curious to hear your reaction to the Texas Supreme Court’s decision to return the children seized by the Texas Department of Family Protective Services (DFPS) from the FLDS’ Yearning for Zion Ranch. I’ve read the court’s decision and a few news reports...

Where, O Where Are My %$$#(& Grades?

Posted on May 28, 2008
Delays in the release of grades is frustrating for the law student, particularly if they are relying on them to get a job, internship, or transfer to another school. Is the experience of waiting for what seems like an eternity to receive grades a universal law school experience? Or is it unique to The Catholic University?SHARETHIS...

No Drinking In Class

Posted on May 20, 2008
One of the things I was rather surprised by during my first year of law school was the number of rules that professors had regarding behavior of students in class. Perhaps my age is getting the best of me, but I had assumed that the days when professors had to lecture students on raising their [...

Best Party Ever.

Posted on May 19, 2008
Mrs. Bombay and I were at a cocktail party yesterday for a dear friend of ours who was just named to the directorship of high powered organization here in town. While there, I met his daughter, who is going to be matriculating at the University of Arizona?s James E...

?So that Happened.?

Posted on May 12, 2008
It?s all over save for the shouting now, and I?ve been trying to come up with some overarching theme, some great lesson I?ve learned from my first year in law school. But truth be told, I can?t. Don?t get me wrong, I?ve learned a tremendous amount myself, my friends, this whole process, but I can?t [...

Exam Time!

Posted on April 28, 2008
The Hypo will be on hiatus this week, and we haul our sorry carcasses through exams. We?ll be back in full force on May 7th after we?ve driven a stake through the heart of Contracts, and the hangover has worn off. A few thoughts for you to consider in our absence: ?�Is there anything stranger than [...

Choosing What You?re Good At

Posted on April 23, 2008
T-minus 7 days until our first exam. Torts. I have the requisite intent of making it my b&%ch. The question is whether that intent will be transferred to a C or lower. Ugh. Actually, during breaks from outlining and when I’m not working, I’ve been thinking more about what I want to do with the law...

Scalia?s Got a Steel Chair!

Posted on April 21, 2008
Justice Scalia’s recently did his best Kimbo Slice impression on Justice Stevens in his concurence in Baze v. Rees, applying a torrent of blows that takes the entire myth of civility on the High Court and chucks it out the window. As a follow-up to our previous discussion regarding the effect of judges on the [...

Getting Served: Vinoteca

Posted on April 20, 2008
After a long day of grinding away on our Torts outline, Team Hypo decided to go out for a little R&R last night. Master of Ceremonies Sally Proust selected a new wine bar ? Vinoteca ? located on U Street. D.C. has experienced a proliferation of wine bars as of late, and Sally and [...

Fight the Hypo Gets Served

Posted on April 20, 2008
Being an evening law student (assuming you have a full time job) in a constant balancing act. I like to say that I?ve got three points of performance; my job, my marriage, and school. So between not getting fired, keeping Goody Bombay from killing me, and not failing Property, I?ve got my work cut out [...

The Best Page in the Dictionary

Posted on April 19, 2008
While looking through Black’s Law Dictionary, Third Pocket Edition today, I found the best page in the history of dictionaries. Page 545 containes definitions for “polyandry”, “polygamy”, “polygraph”, “polygyny” (similary to�bigamy), “Ponzi Scheme”, “pork-barrel legislation”, and “pornography...

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