Holiday parties can be frugal and festive
Sure, times are tough, and there might not be excess cash for a holiday party. But there's no need to be a Scrooge.
Federal Evidence Review on declarations against interest; Volokh on U.S. v. Szymuszkiewicz
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Bauer on risk factors; Goodwin on confirmation in foreclosures
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Utah State Climate Center
One place I stop when looking for current and historical climate data is the Utah State Climate Center. This website contains an extensive amount of data. Some options for the researcher include building climate data sets, viewing radar loops, and dynamic climate reports.
They don’t know what ‘frivolous’ is
This week, The Dark Side is going to do something it has never done before - write something that everyone, even progressives, will agree with - with one small caveat: I don't expect the judges on the 7th Circuit to agree.
Cicchini on SPD rates,Federal Evidence Review on foreign language recordings
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Van Wagner on hunting; Federal Evidence Review on spoliation
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On cheesecakes and Constitutions
Thanksgiving is this week, which means I'm being heavily badgered by folks who want me to make them pumpkin cheesecakes for the holiday, or at least give them my recipe.
Government Attic
If you aren't familiar with Government Attic, it is a newly re-designed website that "provides electronic copies of hundreds of interesting Federal Government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act."
Schober on property condition reports; O’Hear on the federal murder statute
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Benefits of good health outweigh costs
Attorney Tony O'Malley didn't quite know what to think his wife, Sandie, gave him a gift certificate for massage therapy, meditation and yoga classes a couple of years ago. He put it away after the holidays and nearly forgot about it - he was way too busy practicing law to actually think about his own mental and physical health, after all.
Legal News
- Survey: Harris has enough delegates to be nominee
- Outside the RNC, small Milwaukee businesses and their regulars tried to salvage a sluggish week
- Biden called to resign immediately after the president announces he won’t seek reelection
- Biden drops out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Harris
- Local PA cops allegedly thought Trump’s would-be assassin was Secret Service
- Biden-Lead Secret Service admits agency denied past requests by Trump’s campaign for tighter security
- Class action filed against Walgreens
- Former Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant pleads guilty to smuggling contraband
- Two dead, one injured after Ozaukee County water rescue
- RNC Final Day: Trump accepts GOP Nomination
- Wisconsin officials intervene in Planned Parenthood action
- 7th Circuit adopts modifications to Rules 31, 34, 40, 47 and 60
Case Digests
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Double Jeopardy; Sentencing
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel; Sexual Assault-Prosecutorial Misconduct
- Contract-Negligence
- Criminal Law; Juvenile Law; Discovery
- Family Law; Child Support; Property Division First paragraph(s)
- Ineffective Assistance of Counsel- Exclusion of Evidence of Witness Bias
- Postconviction Relief-Sentencing-Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 14th Amendment – Due Process
- Criminal-Sentencing Guidelines – Enhancement
- Bankruptcy-Tax
- Civil Rights – 14th Amendment-Jury Instructions
- Contract; Foreclosure and Property