litigation

Dear kindly judge your honor, this campaign’s been so rough

By Shakezula

In litigation

On October 21, 2016

With reporters all reportin' whenever I say stuff! Donald Trump targeted federal Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel in an an extended series of bigoted rants this summer, asserting that Curiel couldn’t rule fairly in cases alleging fraud by Trump University because of the judge’s Mexican...

litigation , prison reform

Prison Reform and the PLRA

By Scott Lemieux

On March 26, 2007

I strongly recommend reading this post about the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which makes it more difficult for prisoners to sue and reduces the scope of potential litigation in ways.

Jason Allen Everyone thinks that the Shirley Principle applies to them! The problem is that everyone's face is made of delicious MEAT, and the leopards are fucking hungry.
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mothra He's a smarmy, slippery fuck, but I really wish we'd stop calling those campaign Q&A sessions "debates." They are not debates. Vance is good at being glib and knows when he...
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post_postmodulator “In fact, forget the school!”
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JaaMack You're working off the Peter Principle.
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post_postmodulator It’s my favorite joke from the show Girls: “I turned down a threesome once because it meant going to Staten Island. And they were pretty hot women.”
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