This week, a team of lawyers are asking a South Carolina judge to reopen the case of George Stinney, a 14-year-old black boy who was convicted in a kangaroo trial and executed in 1944 for the murder of two young white girls in a racially segregated mill town. The only evidence against Stinney was te[...]
Posts Tagged ‘law’
January 20th, 2014 - 4:33 am § in Misc.
Bloggers Have Freedom of The Press
Bloggers have First Amendment protections Why can’t lawyers respect the intent of the law? For example, bloggers get intimidating letters and email from lawyers threatening law suits over what seems to be normal exercise of free speech … an exercise amplified by the internet but s[...]
January 12th, 2014 - 11:16 am § in Schools & Colleges
How UW Faculty Should Deal With the UW’s Lawyers.
THE UW EMPLOYS A HUNDRED OR MORE LAWYERS WHO CLAIM NOT TO BE BOUND BY THE RULES OF THE BAR TA’s resident attorney and cabbage eating rabbit, claims that I am wrong about this. He says attorneys, even when appearing in other roles, remains attorneys under the ethical rules of the Bar. Wi[...]
September 22nd, 2011 - 11:15 am § in Misc.
Washington State: Laws for sale!
Legislation by the wealthy Last July, my friend Darryl wrote an important essay at HorsesAss. I waited till now to cross post it because I feel this issue ois one we all need to think about as the UW comnes back into full gear. If I may be a bit absurd, I wonder if we […][...]
September 16th, 2011 - 8:15 am § in Schools & Colleges
Borrowed Gravitas: Does The Existance of a Univeristy Imply Free Speech?
The public sees the University of Washington as the home for an elite faculty. Does that status imply our right to use the UW brand to promote our ideas? At one extreme, the answer is yes. The Faculty Code clearly describes our obligations as Professors as being much more than didactive pedagogy d[...]
Yom Hashoah: Roger asks, Were Hitler’s crimes immense enough for you to make an exception for him?
Mon, May 2, 2011 …. Tomorrow is the Jewish holiday, Yom Hashoah .. the day of remembrance of the Holocaust. Because I do not believe in the death penalty, my friend Roger asked this question a few weeks ago: If Hitler had been captured alive, would you have supported executing him? Were his [...]
November 28th, 2010 - 6:13 pm § in Politics, The Ave Scene
Can governments legislate truth?
What happens when the government tries to legislate truth? I find the debate over medical marijuana very disturbing to my belief that our society can be a society of laws. The problem, as I see it, is that the laws prohibiting use of marijuana are not based on facts. That law claims that MJ is [&hel[...]
Tulalips Get Authority To Prosecute Non-Indian Domestic Violence Perpetrators In Tribal Courts
Back in 1978, the Supreme Court ruled tribes can’t prosecute non-Indians for crimes committed on reservations, but also said Congress could give tribes such authority. (Oliphant v. Suquamish Tribe) Congress did exactly that in the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013, which gives[...]