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Interesting decision by the Supreme Judicial Court, reversing the dismissal of claims against Harvard arising from the theft of body parts by morgue manager Cedric Lodge, based on the "good faith defense" in the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act.

www.mass.gov/doc/weiss-v-...

Austin-area types: one of my favorite people was a career diplomat with USAID until there wasn’t one. He and family are back in Central Texas. Any job ideas, recruiters, or just generally good networking contacts I can share with him?

#31daysofgraves Day 8: Glass

The illusion of glass etched in stone at Beau Pre Memorial Park in Louisiana

Icky. And a bit lonely.

When someone does something at that precise nexus of attention-getting and tone deaf, I think: You need more friends of different ages and backgrounds. You need someone who will wait until it's just the two of you and say "what was that?"

Furlough? More like fun-lough, am I right?

…I’ll see myself out.

Successfully resisted the impulse to include voluminous details from the autopsy and medical examiner's report when writing this, so, you're welcome.

Tho, how cool is it to get detailed information, like an autopsy report, from a murder investigation and trial more than a hundred years ago.

The Trial of Oscar Russ Joseph Pelletier makes his case.

🚨 NEW! From the illustrious, the industrious, the incredible *drum rollllllll* @anyuse.bsky.social

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Devastating news for all of us yesterday. Please keep giving to okappleseed.org

kfor.com/news/local/t...

This is how I sext:

Ooooh. Very interesting.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

Nobody knows.

Hamsters won't necessarily eat you as much as convert you into affordable luxury housing

👂LISTEN — (U.S. Navy veteran) country Singer Zach Bryan’s lyrics about ICE that triggered the White House

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But, wait. Is cape cod coded as upstate New York?

Because of some unexamined bougie ick about “ew, but the lawyer is also getting paid” are we supposed to just not have state court litigation, unless both parties have money to burn and nobody to tell them no?

The “but the trial lawyers made all the money” bullshit annoys me to no fucking end. (Yes this is a what’s it. You know. Skeet about a skeet. Side-skeet?)

I am a *cheap* nobody state-court lawyer. Still, the cost of taking a case to trial will often exceed the amount in controversy.

This anti-unhoused bullshit makes me SO ANGRY.

If seeing unhoused people bothers you, maybe try advocating for affordable housing, jackasses.

When I was younger, I got somebody to flip a table once.

Oh wait, this is Bluesky, I don’t have to deal with someone coming into my mentions to stir shit.

If low-dollar or incremental violations can’t be redressed in a context that accounts for multiple damages and fees, cases won’t be brought, and statutes would be toothless.

Also, $300,000 for multi-year litigation is dirt cheap. Almost as cheap as me. And I’m like, gum-in-your-pockets-cheap.

I litigate and try wage and hour and employment discrimination cases *on behalf of employers,* and I read the article.

Statutes providing multiple damages and fees usually reflect a policy decision concerning individual stakes weighed against the cost of litigation, and the conduct to be deterred.

This is how I sext:

Small firm partner who knows where this is going, client about to go wayyy off-script at his own deposition, nepobaby associate.

Town Meeting - October 6, 2025 YouTube video by BCAT Government YouTube Channel

People are getting vocal about ICE’s Burlington MA facility FINALLY

Oh no. I am so sorry.

The first year legal writing assignment, second term, was on whether a plaintiff with chronic fatigue syndrome was impaired in "major life activities." A year later (or two), that whole concept was gone!

Reading pre-ADAAA cases is like:

"Employee's ulcerative colitis necessitated urgent access to rest facilities, every fifteen to twenty minutes. Unfortunately, not-pooping is not a major life activity."

And successfully attach both a "clean" version and a redline -- without comments -- to an email.