Sunday, March 11, 2007 7:43 AM
Blawg's Sunday Paper, a quick spin through the blawgosphere and the week that was.
Professor Lawrence Solum noted that [t]he blogosphere is abuzz with discussion of Paker v. District of Columbia, the second circuit opinion that strikes down the District of Columbia's handgun ban on second amendment grounds. For more, see Paker v. District of Columbia at Legal Theory Blog.
Monica Bay pointed out an article in The National Law Journal about a New Hampshire case involving a juror who posted entries about court duty on his blog... which has raised the issue of juror blogging, which legal experts say may soon become a regular part of voir dire and jury instructions.Juror Blogs Complicate Trials. See her post at The Common Scold, Juror Blogs Complicate Trials.
BoardBuzz, the National School Boards Association's weblog, reported in the post In Voucherland, all eyes on Utah:
The big news in the world of school vouchers has been Utah, Utah, Utah. First, the state legislature swiftly approved what amounts to the nation's first "universal" private school voucher program. That is, when fully implemented, all private school students in the state will be eligible to receive taxpayer dollars to help subsidize their tuition. All other voucher programs that states have experimented with have been targeted to specific cities or certain students.
The new program is precisely what voucher advocates have long sought: Vouchers for everyone who can gain admission to selective private schools. In many ways, it unmasks the politically astute rhetoric of the past several years in which voucher advocates claim to be about helping low-income students escape "lousy schools." In fact, universal vouchers that will largely benefit wealthier families who may already have sent their children to private schools has always been the primary goal.
You can read the NSBA's full post on the subject at the link above.
Northwestern University Law Review: Colloquy posted the abstract, Why Supermajoritarianism Does Not Illuminate the Interpretive Debate Between Originalists and Non-Originalists, which according to the Editor's Note was in response to McGinnis and Rappaport, A Pragmatic Defense of Originalism, 2007 Nw. U. L. Rev. Colloquy 1 (link).]
Bruce Allen at Marketing Catalyst said Just Show Up Enough and the Results are Priceless. In his post, he related a recent positive experience at a networking event and reiterated that one should just get in the habit of showing up and the reward of good relationships will appear before you.
Ronda Muir asked The End of Profitability As We Know It? In her post at Law People Blog, Ms. Muir noted [t]he linchpin to forging a solution to the associate recruitment/retention/compensation issue may be getting partners to acknowledge that partner profits, hotly negotiated, carefully calculated and closely compared, have to take a hit. The post is significantly more comprehensive than this introductory sentence and worth the read. You can find the entire post here: The End of Profitability As We Know It?
Judge Richard Posner wrote about The Economics of College and University Rankings at The Becker-Posner Blog.
Victor Fleischer at Conglomerate reported that [a]ccording to a couple of sources, members of the Senate Finance Committee are considering a proposal to change the tax treatment of a carried interest. See the complete post Taxing Carried Interest as Ordinary Income?
Rick Klau talked up Twitter at tins: OK, OK. I give up. I’m on Twitter...For me, I think it will become an easy “status” service. In other words, via IM, web or phone, I can post a quick update message that will immediately show up on my blog. For anyone who’s using Twitter (I’m ‘rklau’ if you want to add me), my status updates will be pushed out to them however they’ve chosen to be notified.
The law firm of Marler Clark's e.Coli Blog said Senator demands E. coli outbreak results:
Senator Dean Florez is criticizing the California Department of Health Services on Friday after the department refused to release its report on September's deadly E. coli outbreak.
That outbreak, which killed several people and sickened hundreds, was linked to a California spinach farm, but the Department of Health Services refused to acknowledge which farm is responsible, and what went wrong.
Florez thinks the department is keeping the report from the public because he believes they "dropped the ball" when it comes to protecting the public from food-borne illnesses.
Paul Gronke at Election Updates highlighted The Count Every Vote Act: Richard Winger, of Ballot Access News, writes today of a House Judiciary Committee resolution (HJ4) introduced by Stephanie Tubbs Jones which would mandate same-day registration and no-excuse absentee balloting.
David Feige at Indefensible opined about Absolutely corrupting power in a post concerning FBI director Robert Mueller's admissions about the FBI and Patriot Act.
Lawyer Lyle Roberts at the longstanding The 10b-5 Daily said the In-And-Out Trader Is Out:
While the Dura decision by the Supreme Court suggests that in-and-out traders (i.e., investors who both bought and sold their shares during the class period) cannot establish the existence of loss causation, lower courts have not uniformly applied this principle. In the latest case to consider the issue, In re Comverse Technology, Inc. Securities Litigation, a court in the E.D.N.Y. has issued a decision vacating a magistrate judge's order appointing the Plumbers and Pipefitters National Pension Fund (P&P) as lead plaintiff in the case. The court concluded that the magistrate judge improperly overvalued P&P's financial interest in the action by including losses resulting from in-and-out trades.
Read the rest of Mr. Robert's post on in-and-out traders at the links above.
And, finally, offering A European’s Views on Securities Litigation, Werner R. Kranenburg at the blawg With Vigour and Zeal offered a case update: Wolverhampton v Dell, case update i
Have a great Sunday...