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Admittedly, there is a need to stop frivolous lawsuits especially in cases where parents are blaming McDonalds instead of themselves for their child’s sudden increase in weight. Now comes a report from the Bush Administration claiming that these frivolous lawsuits were one of the reasons behind our current unemployment crisis.

"Lawsuit abuse is the ultimate disincentive for hiring new people," Snow said in prepared remarks to a closed session of the American Tort Reform Association. "The cost of doing business is substantially increased by a litigious environment."

Fact: A minority of lawsuits are frivolous, and the lawyers who bring such lawsuits are subject to discipline under the code.
Fact: Without the lawsuits there is one less avenue for regulation. Have we forgotten Enron so quickly.
If the government wants to protect small business then let it protect small business, but not at the detriment of the consumer. They have the right to sue. As for blaming the lawyers for the lack of jobs, well this is the same Bush Administration that claimed there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq so what else is new.

I meant to announce this yesterday, but I was too busy being social or at least pretending to be.
The fellows formally from En Banc have a new weblog, De Novo, and it’s fabulous. The symposium, which is the new addition to blog, is an excellant idea, and I might even submit to it if the topic seems right.
This weeks first symposium in particular has had me thinking about how well I’m prepared for "the outside." Coming from a law school that was so dedicated to bar classes and less on clinics and hands on experience other than the summer clerkships (because quite frankly employment during the semester was discouraged), the minute I get my license I won’t know what to do with it. I do have clerkship experience and I’m happy that I took trial advocacy, and I was an avid competitor in mock trial, but it isn’t real world.
Granted, I’m not paranoid about it because I learned quite a bit as a clerk, and after all these months of being unemployed studying for the exam I’m just dying to jump in and get my hands dirty in some kind of civil work, but I don’t want to be blindsighted by it.
That and I did not go to the best school, but that’s not a secret.

A French court has ruled in favor of Disney and Pixar stating that they did not "Find Nemo" from author Franck le Calvez. He sued last year claiming that Nemo was too similar to his character, Pierrot, who also happens to be a clown fish that gets lost. The difference here is that Pierrot has a dolphinlike smile, therefore he cannot be like the adorable Nemo.

These are the things I’ve discovered today:
– Wonderfalls made me laugh out loud, not once, not twice, but countless times. It definately deserves a second chance.
– I’ve discovered Blue October thanks to my roommate. My playlist is all the richer because of this, and this makes me happy.
– I will own the MPRE tomorrow. Ahem.
– When I post this I will have more posts than comments. I guess I’ve really bored people. But please, no spammers!

Oh look, I wrote a poem. The only catch is that it’s in Spanish. I know, it’s not fair. What was I thinking hiding my crappiness behind my native tongue. Actually, because the subject is someone dear to my heart who happens to be on my Mexican side, the words just came out better in espa�ol.

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CNN is just reporting that the California Supreme Court has issued a halt to same-sex marriage licenses in San Fransisco.
So there it is, a judicial order keeping two people from their fundamental right to marry. I don’t care that they are both female or male. They should have that right to marry, and the fact that other people want to prevent that makes them so cold-hearted and prejudical it’s sickening.

Picture this. It’s early evening and you’re driving home after a long day at the job. The road is mostly empty except for the SUV ahead, which you disregard because Tori is on the radio and you’re jamming along to Precious Things. Suddenly, the song is over, the announcer is describing the previously listened to songs and you’re head to head with SUV. You absently glance next to you to see the driver. Afterall, he could be a hotty, and lo and be hold he is, except he’s engrossed in a 10 x 10 screen latched ten inches from his windshield. His buddy in the companion seat is fixiated on the same thing, a naked gay couple doing a 69. It’s a wonder they haven’t crashed the SUV into another car.
What was once considered the road trip solution for little kids is now being used to fulfill sexual fantasies, except that cars were meant to be driven people, not drive and orgasm at the same time. Seriously, what were they thinking.

I am such a spoiler whore!!!!! I couldn’t even handle three miserable hours. After the third I clicked on the link. Damn my curiousity. I’m going to hell.
Oh Jonni and Steph, I dare you to look. ::smiles evily::

These days if a movie has a little nudity it’s enough to give it an R rating where as twenty years ago it was an easy PG or maybe PG-13. Now there’s this recommendation to give movies an R rating if the actors smoke. The reasoning? To shield children and adolescents from the dangers of smoking. Let’s not give them the temptation to light up and poison their lungs.
Note to the group: Limiting the sex to R rated films has not stopped teen pregnancies. STD cases are on the rise, and they don’t show signs of stopping.
Second, should we ban violence too. Especially the shoot-em-up flicks, the Vin Diesel’s and the Rock fight films. Look at MTV’s JackAss. Teenagers did try to mimic some of the stunts on that show.
The fact of the matter is, teenagers are mindless fools who can’t think for themselves, but suggesting that censorship or barring certain images won’t solve the problem. It hasn’t yet.
And please, don’t give the MPAA anymore ideas. Their guidelines are screwy as is.
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My lovely domain is back up, though it is missing a few things. There is no forum or link database. A few hostees are missing as well as the guestbook and the mailing list.
The shell is there. This is what matters. I’m high on migraine drugs. I’m a happy camper. We can all be happy together!
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