February 2, 2018
Why we are a nation of laws. Here and Here.
January 11, 2018
Style is thus a form of honor and courage, just as, Santayana tells us, is the pursuit of truth always. Justice Benjamin Cardozo in “Mr. Justice Holmes”
Truth Out Of Chaos
Now I’ve run out of things to say. There’s obviously no sense talking about this kind of thing … or maybe, there is at that: I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a little more objectively. And I guess that’s one of the real objectives of writing, […]
January 8, 2018
For all judges, sovereign or subordinate, if they refuse to hear proof, refuse to do justice; for though the sentence be just, yet the judges that condemn without hearing the proofs offered are unjust judges and their presumption is but prejudice. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
January 5, 2018
Voter Suppression efforts taken up by the United States Supreme Court. Reuters: With Renewed Vigor, USSC Scrutinizes Curbs On Voting
January 4, 2018
All ages shall speak with amaze and applause Of the courage we’ll show in support of our laws To die we can bear – but to serve we disdain For shame is to freemen more dreadful than pain. John Dickinson, “The Liberty Song” a Revolutionary War Era poem
Feedback 2017
Steven Spielberg’s “The Post,” which for months has been called the right movie at the right moment, felt relevant, if in less magical and obvious ways. It doesn’t have the engine of a classic fairy tale, but rather the power of a populist Frank Capra fairy tale. It tells the story of how the Washington […]
December 21, 2017
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November 14, 2017
Med Mal caps McFall down in Florida Last year’s decision overturning the compensatory damage limits in Florida Medical Malpractice Cases
Weaver v. Myers, M.D.
Lawyers are taught to be circumspect and cautious representing facts. I’m not going to do that here. Because I know better. So with apologies to old-timey practitioners, here is my reading of the Florida Supreme Court’s latest ruling saving consumers from the unrelenting pummeling of the healthcare delivery and insurance markets and their omnipresent and […]