May 31, 2018
Are we losing the right to oral argument on appeal in Federal Court?
May 28, 2017
Oyez! Oyez!: Organized Bars Must Challenge Attacks On Judiciary
May 24, 2018
Another school shooting raises an opportunity to review solutions. Will we finally talk about it seriously?
May 22, 2018
Criminal justice reform requires a plan.
May 7, 2018
In A Crowded Theater: Using Speech To Silence Speech
April 24, 2018
9th Circuit: Monkey has no standing in copyright infringement case over selfie.
A West Virginia School Of Excellence
Papoo Crofton transferred from Ohio Northern University to the prestigious Foreign Service School at Georgetown University in 1927, where he drove a cab to put himself through Law School. He went home to West Virginia and was elected Prosecuting Attorney for Wood County in 1936. He was a union man, a champion of the underdog […]
April 9, 2018
NPR: Should Gun Owners Carry Mandatory Liability Insurance?
Blennerhassett Island
Walter Timothy Crofton (Papoo) was an Irish tough who put himself through Georgetown University on the GI Bill, supplemented by driving a cab around DC. He always loved the Jesuits – rooting for Notre Dame whenever they weren’t playing the West Virginia Mountaineers. He returned to Parkersburg, West Virginia and when we visited in the […]
Great High Mountain
“You,” Mother Jones yelled at the gallused, grizzled men. “have stood and seen yourselves robbed.” Of every ton of coal they mined, “so much was taken out, and professional murderers were hired to keep you in subjugation, and you paid for it! Damn you, you are not fit to live under the flag. You paid […]