Have Opinion, Will Travel
"Observations, thoughts, occasional rants, things I find interesting and anything else that I feel moved to share or comment on—sometimes, they may even involve the law, lawyers or the judicial system."
Author: "Have Opinion, Will Travel" is a male lawyer.
Blawg Related Categories: Legal History • Legislation & Lobbying • Trials & Litigation • Legal Technology • Anonymous
Recent Posts from Have Opinion, Will Travel
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Apparently, elections can kill you.
What with all the fund raising letters, telephone polls, negative campaigning and 24 hour news cycle spin, I guess it was inevitable that someone would discover that elections are hazardous to your health. In fact,…
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The Pink Panzer?
I guess I'm dating myself but I remember when the only muscle powered vehicles that people attempted to build involved orange crates and old roller skates. Now they apparently involve pneumatic cannon and bizarre urban…
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Maybe I should go on a junket factfinding tour.
The New York Times had this interesting piece the other day about how judges are more involved in making foreign policy.
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Remembering 9/11
Everyone remembers where they were on that fateful day, seven years ago. I was in court hearing oral arguments when we noticed both attorneys and our bailiffs suddenly begin to leave the courtroom. Finally one…
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Tagged!
Even though he is on vacation, Ken has managed to tag me. As he says, the rules are simple: name 5 blogs I read and tag 5 blawgers. Note the difference between blogs and blawgs…
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If you cross the Da Vinci Code with any John Grisham novel, this would be the result.
From last week's Daily Telegraph comes a story that struck me as what the result of a literary collaboration between John Grisham and Dan Brown might look like. It seems that the Knights Templar, or…
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Divorce Economics - New Jersey Style.
From the State of New Jersey, here is a higher profile example of a mindset that judges see every day. It is where the parties to a broken marriage would rather give the money to…
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No mistrial for a fake heart attack. Instead, how about 42 years.
Whenever somebody decides to represent himself, every lawyer and judge in the vicinity shakes their head because they know the likely result will not be pretty. In the case of Keison Wilkins, it actually…
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Happy Birthday America!
There are now 232 candles on the cake.
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The Chinese idea of a S.W.A.T. Team,
I'm hardly an expert on anti-terrorism but I do know that "S.W.A.T." stands for " Special Weapons and Tactics" and it seems to me that a Segway is not exactly a "special weapon" and shooting…