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• May 02, 2017 @ 03:14am
  on Louisiana DA's Office Used Fake Subpoenas For Decades To Trick People Into Talking To Prosecutors

  Is it a crime? Certainly, if they used the mails, a telephone or a computer.
  Tell a lie and lick a stamp? Elements met.

• Nov 03, 2013 @ 09:41am
  on Professor Fires Off Lengthy Email In Defense Of Student Forbidden From Handing Out Copies Of The Constitution

  A reminder that the students are of legal age. But it's still high school.

• Nov 03, 2013 @ 09:12am
  on Professor Fires Off Lengthy Email In Defense Of Student Forbidden From Handing Out Copies Of The Constitution

  AC: it's not about smoking.

• Nov 03, 2013 @ 08:28am
  on Professor Fires Off Lengthy Email In Defense Of Student Forbidden From Handing Out Copies Of The Constitution

  Junior college has been described as "high school with ashtrays." The administrators' actions here prove how true this adage is.

• Dec 05, 2012 @ 01:10pm

  And in Civil Law Jurisdictions?

  on Why Copyright Shouldn't Be Considered Property… And Why A Return To 1790 Copyright May Be Desirable

  In civil law jurisdictions there is no common law yet there is copyright nonetheless. These "common law" arguments are thus US and Anglo-Saxon law-centric.
  There is a need for international consensus in this area. That we approach it from our own legal traditions without trying to find a common ground is part of the problem.