Friday, Sep 13 2024
My love: I am writing this just in case. For the past several days since I’ve been in Williamsburg, I’ve had a low-grade fever, which was one of the symptoms Dr. Lee said would indicate something to not let slide. When it wouldn’t go away for a few days, I went
Every year at this time, it seems, we realize once again that as you get older, you overlook birthdays. Time speeds up, or maybe slows down. Very Proustian. Thus, it occurred to us only yesterday that that this blog’s “birthday” was looming and we almost let it slip by without notice.
It hardly seems like
paragraph of the Answer responsible for all this:
Take that, Kohler Act.
Check out some of the history behind the decision. “Pillar robbing.”
In granting the injunction to Mahon, the county trial judge played the “I’m just a simple country lawyer” card:
Yeah right, Your
We’ve noted this before, but we shall say it again: if you ever have the opportunity to teach in a law school — either as a full-time legal scholar or part-time as an expert adjunct practitioner — do it if you are at all able. You might think you know a lot about a particular
Too busy writing those briefs and writs, and haven’t found the time to hit your local store or the interwebs and fulfill your seasonal duties? Or maybe you just have gifter’s block about an appropriate present for the dirt lawyer in your life this holiday season.
Well, you could go the Charlie Brown route and
A crisp autumn day at the Old School (truly – founded 1779)
We have just wrapped another semester of dirt law classes at William and Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia. Today was the last day of instruction in our Land Use course, as well as in our Eminent Domain & Property Rights class.
On this Thinks…uh Thanksgiving holiday, we’re grateful for all you property law and property rights mavens out there. Drive on, friends.
And no Thanksgiving gathering would be complete without the obligatory dramatic reading of John Stossel’s timeless holiday classic, “Private Property Rights Made the First Thanksgiving Possible.” We’re certain your relatives are
We were all set to write up our in-depth analysis and post our deep thoughts on the California Court of Appeal’s opinion in Pacific Gas and Electric Co. v. Superior Court, No. C097529 (Sep. 21, 2023), a case involving the question of “necessity,” the burden of proof, and whether a legislature’s assertion that a
On the day we celebrate Constitution Day (or should we say Khaaaaan-stitution Day?) we have to admit that pretty much nothing beats One Named Kirk’s reading of the Preamble.
KIRK: This was not written for chiefs!
Hear me! Hear this!
Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands
