yeasting.bsky.social
Lawyer, not brewer (and not your lawyer). Appellate. I try to overturn convictions.
Chicago. Michigan. Meteorite00 sometimes.
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If it’s a Fourth Amendment/Mendenhall arrest, it’s an “arrest”.
Is there some other special secret definition?
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AMC Concord?
Plymouth is after Plymouth, MI. Does that still count, then?
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Do you have a cite?
(This might be useful for me soon.)
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Jordan Acker, who’s been the most visible of the Dem regents, is up in 2026, I think.
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Reporting is that it’s regent-driven more than Ono-driven.
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I wonder how many naturalized citizens are erroneously listed as non-citizens bc CPD and ISP never updated their data.
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I feel like everyone should be able to see the subtext of menus in celebration of technology by now. It was done before.
mitpress.mit.edu/978395679003...
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Make them use AI for the actual recipe too, and see how well that goes.
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I keep wondering what kind of nonsense stuff might be out there in front of grand juries that we're just not hearing about yet.
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If only there were a major non-profit a few blocks away from the Sun-Times writing licensable, y'know, lists of books.
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I have questions about the scope of Ohio's arson statutes.
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Journalists need crisper ways to say “we think is illegal, but are habitually afraid of nonsense libel suits”.
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Supreme Court could of course do want it wants, but Rogers v Tennessee pretty narrowly limits those kind of ex post facto-ish due process claims.
In practice, they rarely succeed.
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Fastest I can think of that a precedent has been proven “unworkable.”
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Bet I can find someone willing to give the President a ride around Jackson Park as he tells every Black and Latin person he sees that he doesn't think they're tough.
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I’d always imagined I was at the Painting and Poetry part of that quote by virtue of my grandparents’ service in the Second World War.
I guess I’m now relegated back to studying Politicks.
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John Adams already wrote the retort:
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study …Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History…Commerce…to give their[s] a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture…
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Looks like we’ve finally found an acceptable use for AI autotext in court filings.
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I just want someone to tell us what color the revolution’s gonna be so everyone can coordinate.
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Am I gonna have to argue a Frye hearing on a glitter expert?
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What’s been written on reviving dormant state law theories on torts against federal agents?
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So, what’s the scope of district court’s discretion to impose 24-hour filings for every government pleading, while allowing the government only a typewriter and a half-complete hard copy federal reporter?
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There's a style of AI case summary I've seen popping up in briefs --- lots of unnecessary summary of procedural history, with only a glancing, questionable description of the actual basis for the decision. I hate it.
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I’m taking my kid there in a few months. Should we try to find trackways?