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Category: Judicial
Gilbert Submits - January 30, 2011
On commercial television, you cannot use foul language in dialog or in the title of a show. I suppose that is why the new comedy series on CBS is entitled "$#*! My Dad Says." The symbols "symbolize" "forbidden" or "offensive" language. If we peel back the symbols, what word or words do you think ...
Gilbert Submits - January 30, 2011
Last month, Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez wrote about his recent encounter with zip, schnitzel, prune, dooby, chillums, funk, spliff, boo, snop, cheo, ganja, gunja, gunney gange, gash, gasper, griff. As long as we are on the G's, he wrote that the experience made him giggle. You are ...
Gilbert Submits - January 30, 2011
We have all heard of the ripple effect, how even the most insignificant act can have far-reaching consequences. At the risk of sounding self-important, my sneeze last week may have caused an avalanche in Tibet. I hope no one was injured.Seldom are we aware of the ripple effect r
Gilbert Submits - January 30, 2011
Warning. The concluding paragraphs of this column contain scatological references, which some, if not all, discriminating readers will find offensive. We strongly advise discretion for the sensitive and parental oversight for those of tender age. Last month my column centered on the ri
Legal Legacy - January 30, 2011
Edward G. Lengel is editor in chief of the Washington Papers Project and thus has spent hours and hours in the company of George Washington. As someone who therefore has had the truth in hand, he has marveled over the tenacity of falsehoods about Washington. The purpose of this book is to explo
Legal Legacy - January 30, 2011
Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman has given us a thoroughly researched, well written, solid analysis of the inner workings of the U.S. Supreme Court during the time it was dominated by four appointees of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The appointees, the Scorpions of the title, all began as supporters
Legal Legacy - January 04, 2011
The United States presidential election of 1860 was possibly the most seminal in our history. Egerton follows the election with great care, giving the bulk of his attention to Democratic party politics. He articulates the positions of Stephen Douglas, John Breckenridge, and John Bell, and descr
Legal Legacy - December 15, 2010
I am quite aware that owing to some of its scenes Ulysses is a rather strong draught to ask some sensitive though normal person to take. But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that whilst in many places the effect of Ulysses on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat
Legal Legacy - September 01, 2010
In the book The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers by Thomas Fleming, the author addresses the issue of Marthas wealth when George married her on January 6, 1759. He notes that Marthas first husband, Daniel Parke Custis, had died without a will. He estimates the value of their 17,4
Legal Legacy - August 18, 2010
In a seven month period prior to the adoption of the Constitution, from October 1787 to May, 1788, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison (with a small contribution from John Jay) produced a series of outstanding essays popularly known as The Federalist Papers, designed to sell the idea of
Gilbert Submits - August 16, 2010
Chief Justice Ronald Georges announcement that he will not be seeking re-election stunned most of us in the legal community. If someone had asked me before the press release about his retirement, Think the Chief will step down soon? my immediate response would have been, Not a chance. But even ...
Legal Legacy - August 02, 2010
The August 2010 issue of ABA Journal has a wonderful feature on “The 25 Greatest Fictional Lawyers {Who Are Not Atticus Finch}.”
The Editors write of Atticus:
Finch was comfortable in his own skin and reasonably respectful of the frailties in others. To lawye
Gilbert Submits - May 05, 2010
Last week a good friend of mine, Gene Lees, passed away. He was one of the nation's great jazz critics and lyricists. His output was prodigious. He was a newspaper columnist, former editor of DownBeat Magazine, an author of numerous biographies that included Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Oscar ...
Gilbert Submits - April 09, 2010
Courts interpret the law. It is expected, or at least hoped, that they do so in a way that provides the public, from which come litigants and their counsel, a reasonable degree of predictability, if not certainty. From this dictum one would expect that surprise would be an unwelcome guest whose ...
Say What?! - March 05, 2010
From Joe. G. Roady of Houston (Hirsh & Westheimer) this contribution "in a Juror Information Form" used in Judge Robert Frost's 116th District Court in Dallas:In the block for information concerning the 'Highest Level of Education,' one prospective juror wrote 5'6".
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