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Monday Morning Jumpstart

Posted on June 09, 2008 by Gideon

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Kuwaitis Bedouin...Persian Gulf Region; about 1950

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It’s going to be a scorcher today!

  • CT’s Supreme Court issues a gay marriage ruling.
  • Another Texas oddity: A motor vehicle known as the Cruzin’ Cooler. Take a guess.
  • Someone far smarter than me tries to untangle the hodgepodge in U.S. v. Santos
  • A law grad in Michigan was denied admission to the bar after he answered truthfully about his views on the justice system.
  • America’s prison population has hit an all-time high (particularly amusing to me since I spent all day yesterday watching the first season of Weeds. Yes, that is a pot joke).
  • Mark Bennett exposes yet another member of the seedy bar: Ollie the Cabdrivertising Attorney. We all have an Ollie in our local bars.
  • Anne Reed on gaze aversion by jurors.
  • NY appellate court upholds warrantless use of GPS to track suspect.
  • When you fight about everything in a case and file stupid motions, you get rulings like this.
  • Juries writes about CT’s new opt-in jury duty law and the Constitutional problems it might present.
  • Lowering the bar reviews the history of the use of the F-word in SCOTUS oral arguments.
  • Norm is on trial representing a long-lost Bobbitt.
  • SL & P reports that the “soft on crime” presidential mud-slinging has begun.
  • Obscenity is what 6 people think it is: “Max Hardcore” found guilty.
  • Scott comments on a judge finally using discretion to block attempts to give a defendant a length sentence.
  • CDW’s weekly edition is here.

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