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I am Tom Freeland,
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I’ve come to a conclusion after watching the USM fans in the stands at the College World Series this week: Mississippi can claim complete victory over anorexia.
COA handdowns yesterday. I’m curious who thinks this one will stand up on cert. Classic plaintiff-doesn’t-meaningfully-designate-medmal-expert-on-time case, where a scheduling order was in place. COA held that even the factor of prejudice to the proponent — where obviously, no expert, no case — “weighs in favor of neither party.”
Not that I don’t agree with the decision, or find it useful to my clients; I’m just curious where the current MSSC lineup will fall on this one. Will the “train has left the station” precedents like Bowie be applied?
NMC, are you going to MS Bar Convention?
Forget it.
NMC, are you looking forward to Iphone 3.0 software?
Also, I downloaded the FRCP application. I swear its better then having the book in front of you (except that it lacks annotations/comments). For $2 I would recommend it to any lawyer.
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The mustard yellow shirts add about 10 pounds on television, Ben. I wonder if any of those fans could pitch?
I haven’t been to the bar convention but once, and that was in the early 90s (when my brother was being coronated as president of the young lawyers, of all things). I could use some time at a beach, but not for a while yet.
I’m sorta looking forward to the iPhone2 software.
I’m also looking forward to getting this damn brief I am writing finished. But then there’s two more right behind it.
I could use some time at a beach, but not for a while yet.
“Beach covered with lawyers” has never sounded especially idyllic to me.
Vacationing with a bunch of lawyers is not my idea of a vacation. No offense intended to anyone.
Actually I found the best time to show up at beach with the kiddos at Sandestin was the last day of the Phelps Dunbar annual retreat. Lawyers don’t like taking home sandy beach toys in the Beamer so they give them away for free.
Remember that guy from law school that sat on the front row and raised his had constantly? You can see him again.
Remember that guy from law school that sat on the front row and raised his hand constantly? You can see him again.
Aw, I miss you too, Meri!
Anything to report on the MUW rebadging kabuki? I got a new name for ‘em: Tombigbee University. It’s no worse than the others they’ve ginned up.
Actually, the guy with his hand always up was on the next to last row in my 1st year section. He’s on billboards all over Hinds County now, and for a long time owned the phone book back cover down there.
On the last day of civil procedure, up went the hand (as always, shaking a pencil. Up till that moment, I always wondered if it was as annoying to the professor). The professor shook his pen back and said, with mock anger, “WHAT IS IT, SCHWARTZ?”
Complete laughing bedlam resulted.
Brief writing hell: intersection of “hard cases make bad law” meets the Miss. courts love for opinions that go like this: State Facts. Cite a few general principles. State result with no analysis whatsoever.
Dear NMC,
Before broaching this subject, I’ve given this subtext a considerable amount of thought. It seems to me, and at least one other distaff commentor since April this year, that some folks would rather put a “No Gurlz Aloud!” sign on the NMC tree house. And I’m not referring to the blog’s owner by any stretch of the imagination. Their propensity for going above and beyond the bounds of civility is worrisome to be certain, but this whole Iran Protest thread is just truly crass and particularly loathsome. If this was some meet-market social-blog, and I were not already spoken for, it possible that I might care to know who shared my sexual kinks and neuroses, but not so much as DLS is a very naughty sub and he will be dealt with directly ;))
Perchance the culprits should hand over their iPhones for at least a week?
- DLM
As I think you know, DLM, I am very loath to delete comments or to attempt to control what is said here. The only time I’ve deleted comments related to explicit racism; the only person I’ve banned was AROD.
That said, it never occurred to me I’d get the sort of thing that broke out under that Iran protest photo; if I’d thought there was any chance it would have provoked that, I’d not have posted it in the first place. I’ve never seen that sort of comment here, or on other blogs I’ve regularly read were the comments tended to be from grown-ups; I suppose that’s part of why it had not occurred to say something discouraging it in the comment guidelines. I’m going to change that today.
Other than Iran protest thread, I don’t have a sense of who or what sort of comments produce the sense of not welcoming women and would appreciate some sort concrete example.
Eeewwwww, I hadn’t seen those “Picture from Iran” comments.
Way to make the case for sharia law, people.
Well, a third of the comments turn out to have bogus email addresses so they’re now spam. I’ll figure out what to do with the other six folks later today.
NMC – Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Personally, I wouldn’t dream of asking you to delete anything. I am nearly as pro Bill of Rights as AFOTL, and highly recommend using all 10 as fully as possible to prevent them from being aggressively pruned. However having items like that remain on the blog can draw undesirables via search results and attention of some sort may therefore be required. The care in handling the AROD matter was extremely admirable in my humble opinion. For the somewhat unwelcoming things to which I alluded, I’ll have to go back and look for those old threads. It may take a while since like you I am oversubscribed with legal matters like depositions, hearings, or trials for the next two weeks. My earlier comment was meant to be in the vein of Tina Fey, and I hope I didn’t miss the boat.