by: John Norkus The natives are restless. You’ve read about them, watched them – hell, some of you may have even participated in them. Of course I’m talking about protests. Protesting is the new black. (Wait did I just use the “________ is the new black” line? Damn it. That’s so cliché. I don’t know [...]
by: Lauren Sarkesian Tired of being stuck in the library with the gunner from your section who wants to know if you, too, have already finished the fourth Torts practice exam and didn’t understand how to work IIED into question #2? Yeah, we’ve all been there. You need to get out! Take a break from [...]
By: C. Maeve Kendall Wednesdays are difficult. It’s too early in the week to start thinking about the weekend and too late to feel the excitement of a “fresh” new week. For the Food Stamp Challengers, getting over the Wednesday “hump” is more like climbing a mountain. The participants in the challenge agreed to use [...]
By: Janet Soave Movin’ on Up President Obama’s Affordable Care Act is making its way to the Supreme Court one step at a time after a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit ruled that the Act is constitutional this morning. Although the panel (and every other news source) is predicting that the Supreme Court will [...]
By Mike Hohenadel Do you want to play a round of golf with Dean Faught? Maybe you want to stay in a swanky hotel after Barrister’s Ball? Or is dinner and dancing (wild, Hangge Uppe-dancing) with a professor or Dean Kaufman more your speed? There’s only one opportunity for you to get all of these [...]
By Dan Wharton Pictures may speak a thousand words, but these dandies from Halloween 2011 leave me speechless. A Buffalo-based law firm representing big-time mortgage lenders like Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo is under fire after a N.Y. Times Op-Ed exposed the firm for its annual Halloween party. Members of [...]
By: John Norkus By now you all have heard about the NBA lockout and the fact that, despite it being November and time for the season to begin, no actual games are taking place. The lockout poses a huge problem for me because I spend a solid amount of time watching NBA games, reading about [...]
By: Joe Cohodes I was of two minds when I first heard Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s proposal to modify red-light cameras so they could “catch” speeders near school zones, parks, and the like. For, you see, my right foot worships at the pagan altar of acceleration. My ribcage, however, reminds me from time to time that [...]