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The law's power to combat implicit biasUnless you're knee-deep in contemporary legal scholarship, which certainly I'm not, the paper available for download here has to give you the creeps. A fair restatement of its premise is: While discrimination law generally prevents or remedies employment and other decisions based on explicit, i.e. intentional, bias, it is inadequate...
September 5, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
What do you call a lawyer getting the crap beaten out of him in China?I don't laugh at lawyer jokes. It's not that I'm sensitive, or, you know, a lawyer, it's that picking on lawyers is stupid. The chuckleheads who earn their money convincing the hand-to-mouth they're sitting on a pile of cash for some egregious wrong somebody with a lot of insurance did...
August 30, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Presidential signing statements III: I don't care, and neither should youPart I Part II Part III An American Bar Association task force has a report out condemning the overuse of Presidential signing statements, those "interpretations" of new laws the President issues upon signing the bills, indicating how and whether he intends to enforce certain provisions. In one sense this is...
July 25, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Someone with a lot of money must have caused my heart attackSpeaking of ringing one's bell as a civil plaintiff, they're playing that little tuba ditty they play when someone loses the Showcase Showdown on The Price is Right for Elaine Doherty, a New Jersey woman who was taking Vioxx and had a heart attack and whose lawyer has rudimentary math...
July 14, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Plame goes all Ron Goldman on CheneyInsofar as I'm pretty sure the lawsuit isn't so much about justice and redress and recompense and etc. as it is about giving the administration the finger, it probably doesn't matter, but there's a fairly profund difference between suing after a criminal acquittal and suing after the prosecutor fails to...
July 14, 2006 Author: Matt Barr Blawg Review #62Welcome to New World Man, a Library of Congress Web Resource on the Alito nomination, and home of Harriet Miers' con law crash course. The author is a reformed lawyer who enjoys reading blawgs and writing about legal issues and in particular the Constitution and Supreme Court. Look, we're...
June 19, 2006 Author: Matt Barr We're all pro-choice here!You may recall that I favor a willing buyer/willing seller solution to the pharmacists "conscience clause" issue in Illinois. The state (via Super Emergency Executive Powers) now requires pharmacists to dispense prescriptions they're presented regardless of their moral objections. My more nuanced if completely un-novel approach would be to allow...
June 12, 2006 Author: Matt Barr
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