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Holland Oats posted:CLS people, do you have any recommendations on which 1L elective I should take? Here are the options: Law and Econ is kinda fun although fairly useless except for academia and maybe antitrust
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sigmachiev posted:NERD ALERT here's the oral argument transcript of that video game case that went before SCOTUS. http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/08-1448.pdf JUSTICE ALITO: Well, I think what Justice Scalia wants to know is what James Madison thought about video games. (Laughter.) JUSTICE ALITO: Did he enjoy them? JUSTICE SCALIA: No, I want to know what James Madison thought about violence. SCALIA SMACKDOWN. VIDEO GAMES ARE SERIOUS BUSINESS
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 14:47 |
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I love how the justices keep referring to games as "videos"
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 14:56 |
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DO NOT TAKE THE CLASS WITH STRAUSS please listen
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 14:58 |
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billion dollar bitch posted:hope
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 15:06 |
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TyChan posted:I want to slap that dean from Emory so bad. Actually he's a prof; teaches CivPro and Business Associations for Emory and BA/FedJur for BarBri NY. He also sounds like Bob Barker when he lectures which makes him immensely popular among the students, which in turn makes him completely full of himself thus the smug. I would love to do a follow up with all the people in that video just to see if their stories have changed at all. Harry Ellis fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 3, 2010 |
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BigHead posted:My brother in law did exactly this (PhD in pharmasomething from ivy league). His PhD actually made him a very desirable candidate, and from what I understand a PhD in a hard science is pretty much the only thing besides LSAT/GPA/URM that makes you desirable to law schools. With his high GPA/LSAT he was actively courted by every law school and got a free ride to a T10. Biotech type of PhD here. Applied to ~18 schools and got in where my LSAT/GPA predicted. If anything, I'd say a PhD blows the door open if your LSAT/GPA gets your foot in the door. It won't get you in where your numbers wouldn't.
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 15:23 |
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TheAttackSlug posted:Army JAG packet in. I hope you submitted it on the 1st, that was the deadline. I was alternate-listed last time and took a Reserve commission (which I have heard nothing further about since passing the medical exams a couple months ago). I re-applied for active duty again this time around. May your luck be only slightly worse than mine!
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 15:38 |
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TyChan posted:How long did it take for your process to go through? My former coworker became a FBI agent. The total application-to-interview process took him at least 2 years. He kept having interviews and offers delayed due to budgeting uncertainties and general bureaucratic inertia.
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 15:46 |
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BigHead posted:I actually applied to be an FBI special agent. FBI special agents hire from, um, 8ish fields. These fields are: military, computer forensics, computer science, language (Chinese/Arabic/etc only pls), law enforcement, hard science graduate degrees, something else, and the law. When I applied, I got accepted through the first round. In my letter of acceptance, they said, and I quote, "We have received an unprecedented amount of law and computer science applicants, and as such we will not be evaluating them this hiring round beyond the first round. If you choose to continue though the first round with only these specialties, then please be prepared to not advance." If someone who's been doing it that long can't get in with legal credentials alone, your fresh out of law school rear end ain't going nowhere.
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 15:53 |
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Also what the gently caress is ginko balboa? Is that some kind of aromatic liqueur? http://tinyurl.com/356gobk or, for correct spelling: http://tinyurl.com/mbqyrm
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Also what the gently caress is ginko balboa? Is that some kind of aromatic liqueur?
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 16:28 |
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Soothing Vapors posted:he's the head hobbit from that one movie I thought that was the Frito Bandito? You kids and your crazy violent videos...
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 16:38 |
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I'm sitting in a WestLaw training session and the instructor is using student loans following bankruptcy, discharge, etc as her example searches. Is she trying to tell us something? Wait, was law school a bad idea? poo poo.
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 16:50 |
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Phil Moscowitz posted:I thought that was the Frito Bandito? You kids and your crazy violent videos... I knew Scalia had an SA account. And it was so obvious all along!
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 17:01 |
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Tetrix posted:Not a CLS person, but if Foundations of the Regulatory State is just a fancy name for Admin Law, I'd take that. If you want to work for a federal agency or department it will be a good selling point in interviews and cover letters. Agreed. Plus Strauss is my favorite professor who reminds me of Dr. Robotnik.
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 17:13 |
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Lemonus posted:This shits a disgrace. Guess we will look forward to Judges having to make political campaign Ad's solicit donations now or something? Yeah, if they want to violate the Code of Judicial Conduct.
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 17:36 |
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What's that? Why no, of course I don't solicit donations for my campaigns. That's the responsibility of the lawyers in my election committee. Yes, they all practice in my court. What's your point?
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 18:07 |
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Petey posted:Did you go? What is your sense of where it is going? No didn't go, I'm sorta on the other side of the country. I found it on Kotaku. Also re: 1L electives: Legislation is a pretty cool class IMO. EDIT: I did read it though. My sense, this is with Con Law 1 and Legislation under my belt, is that there's a genuine overbreadth problem that the court hinted at a couple of times. I believe both Kagen and Scalia brought it up. "Deviant violence" as the statute is written sounds goofy to me and it sounded goofy to the justices. There was a lot of talk on the petitioner's side about a jury being capable of figuring out what that was but it's a flimsy argument at best that Scalia correctly points to as flawed for the purposes of this trial here. Petitioner didn't make himself friends with Sotomayor either when he basically had to concede everything about labeling these games (he didn't brief the issue at all but still got asked about it). The state makes no effort in distinguishing between a 17 year old buying these games and a five year old, which they think is fair, and only Roberts and sort of Alito seemed to indicate they'd hear that argument out. Combined with a fairly long list of similar cases at the lower level that didn't work, you have a recipe for an affirmance. Carving exceptions to speech is something the court isn't big fans of and I don't think they'll be a big enough fan of this. sigmachiev fucked around with this message at 20:21 on Nov 3, 2010 |
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Phil Moscowitz posted:What's that? Why no, of course I don't solicit donations for my campaigns. That's the responsibility of the lawyers in my election committee. Yes, they all practice in my court. What's your point? Welcome to the bullshit that I've been dealing with for the past year
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 19:02 |
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Ainsley McTree posted:granted I'm actually working now (at a nonlegal temp job) and the only reason I'm broke is because I don't get a regular paycheck because they hired me as an independent contractor (not 100% sure it's legal but I don't wanna rock the boat) but I still feel like this counts as a new low
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 20:22 |
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Kase Im Licht posted:Can pretty much guarantee its 100% illegal. You should use those lawyering skills and see if there are any statutory damages or try and organize a class action or something. Some states have really harsh punishments for inappropriately paying employees as a 1099. Although while I remember harsh punishments I don't remember much in the way of harsh payments to broke lawyers who were getting 1099ed illegally. Yes, find a job and immediately sue the people who sign your checks. In 2 years you'll have mad toilet paper money yo!
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 20:40 |
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Some days judges are goddamn idiots.
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 22:20 |
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quote:JUSTICE I'm tired of the anti-Vulcan judicial activism on this court
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# ? Nov 3, 2010 22:34 |
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Defleshed posted:I hope you submitted it on the 1st, that was the deadline. I was alternate-listed last time and took a Reserve commission (which I have heard nothing further about since passing the medical exams a couple months ago). I re-applied for active duty again this time around. Yeah, I got it in on time. Maybe we will be classmates in commissar school!
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 00:23 |
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Does anyone who does a lot of Federal practice happen to know whether you waive your objections to Requests for Production if you fail to answer within thirty days? NOTE: My client is the bigger ding-dong here, this poo poo was 3 months overdue when I got hired.
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 08:01 |
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Roger_Mudd posted:Yes, find a job and immediately sue the people who sign your checks. In 2 years you'll have mad toilet paper money yo! Pretty much this. I think I'm just going to sit on the $10 that I have left and wait for now I'm not really in a suing mood
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Ainsley McTree posted:Pretty much this. I think I'm just going to sit on the $10 that I have left and wait for now I'm not really in a suing mood
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 16:27 |
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Direwolf posted:I'm tired of the anti-Vulcan judicial activism on this court It sounds like you are a supporter of the so called Vulcan agenda.
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 17:12 |
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Roger_Mudd posted:Yes, find a job and immediately sue the people who sign your checks. In 2 years you'll have mad toilet paper money yo! If they discharge him he will have a retaliation claim too!
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 17:38 |
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Holland Oats posted:CLS people, do you have any recommendations on which 1L elective I should take? Here are the options: Hemphill is really good, as well as being one of the professors who is good at getting people he likes clerkships (the other is Richmond who apparently helped almost everyone who got a clerkship) apparently. No idea what any of the other classes are like though, I took the IP one and liked it.
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 18:17 |
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Texas bar results come out in the next half hour to an hour or so. The hit counter on the law examiners website is leaping by thousands each time I frantically refresh. I am literally shaking so hard i can barely type.
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 19:23 |
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Petey: Yeah, I went. It went quite well in favor of the EMA I think. The only justice I got a real sense that supported California's argument was Roberts.
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 19:30 |
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Cortina posted:Texas bar results come out in the next half hour to an hour or so. The hit counter on the law examiners website is leaping by thousands each time I frantically refresh. Good luck! My heart was through my eyeball when I opened up the website to see my result.
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 19:44 |
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Passed the bar!
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TheBestDeception posted:Passed the bar! Grats! You truly are TheBestDecepticon.
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# ? Nov 4, 2010 21:32 |
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TX bar results:
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TheBestDeception posted:Passed the bar! Hooray! What about that other guy though? He hasn't posted yet oh no
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Elotana posted:TX bar results: Yeah, cause I told you on your facebook page.
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Cortina is either hammered because...well actually he/she is probably hammered either way.
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