The Lawyer Fee Trial

As a young lawyer I was involved in a trial suing for the collection of attorney fees.  I was with a small but very good law firm at the time.  I was to be the second chair in the case.  There are different kinds of second chairs.  A lot depends on the size of the [...]

Health Care Reform and the Constitution

It is amazing to hear so many politicians making proposals in both the House and the Senate regarding health care reform without even a passing nod to the Constitutional authority of Congress to enact such legislation.  I know the idea of Federalism and the Constitution must seem quaint and old fashioned to many of them [...]

Left Lies About Health Care

The air is thick these days with cross currents of accusations that one side or the other is telling lies about the pending HR 3200 health care reform bill.  Again you are all urged to read at least some portion of it for yourself.  You can google it.   The phrase “death panels” is tossed about [...]

Health Care Reform and Shakespeare

The Bible and Shakespeare are the best reference tools for any debater or proponet or opponent of any cause.  The Bard had something to say that fits almost every occasion and circumstance.  As the nation debates the health care package propounded in HR 3200 we might wish to take heed to his words and their [...]

Lockerbie and Enhanced Interrogation

The release of the terrorist who was involved in the Lockerbie bombing to Libya has certainly brought front and center the depth of the Muslim hatred for the West and their undying adulation of anyone who is responsible for killing Infidels.  Hard on the heels of that news is the Holder announcement that there will [...]

Gitmo Issues Are Not New

At first the use of Gitmo as a detention and prison facility for prisoners captured during the was on terror raised only a few eyebrows.  Most people seemed to agree that it made sense to use a special prison for this purpose and having them outside the country made sense also.  No one wanted those [...]

Stop Supreme Sotomayor, Enough Already

Wtch the current confirmation hearings in the Senate for Sotomayor as a new member to the US Supreme Court.  I have watched many of these over the years and the process didn’t really vary much until the Bork hearings in the eighties.  That is when things turned quite nasty and have remained more contentious ever [...]

Is Government Motors Unamerican?

The news of the day domestically is about GM and its emerging from the Bankruptcy Chapter 11 proceeding.  I haven’t seen the pleadings so I have to rely on the news accounts but apparently they did what is a 363 sale free and clear to create the “new” GM.  That is a standard procedure in [...]

Judge Selection From Moses to Missouri

Churchill famously said that democracy was the worst form of government except for all the others.  The recent Supreme Court ruling about the election of judges and the concomittant campaign contributions tainting judicial opinion brings that to mind.  That specific case involved large donations to a State Supreme Court judge who later ruled in favor of [...]

Defense in Trials–The Real Deal

After numerous request and demands the defendant’s part of a trial will be discussed.   We already did the first half of a trial a few months ago.  The exercise is not for the lawyers surfing the internet with idle time on their hands but for Joe the Plumber so he will have some idea how [...]