Judges are always complaining about a lack of civility.
I asked for a short continuance of a hearing because it had been set for my son’s birthday.
Opposing counsel sucks. So I had to file a motion. O/C opposed it. No reason.
Judge rules: “there’s no reason you can’t appear remotely”
Oh yeah, that’s right because I probably planned a day with my son where I can just duck into a wework and bring a jacket and tie with me, right? And hey, I can just catch up with him after the hearing, right?
I know I’ve got a few judges who follow me.
I just wanna remind them that if you reward incivility, you’re the reason that there is a lack of civility.
The “fighting words” exception to the First Amendment needs to be laid to rest once and for all.
The jury in the Shiloh Hendrix case was instructed that it could convict her if her words were “inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction or incite an immediate breach of the peace.”
But violence is never a reasonable reaction to offensive words, and you should not be held responsible for someone else’s inability to control their anger.
@jarvis_best Al Bundy of Married with Children said it best when his son asked him what he could do to understand women.
"Don't try to understand women. Women understand women, and they *hate* each other."
@LauraPowellEsq A fellow attorney and longtime friend graduated from UC Berkeley in '04. He described the student body as "aggressive" when it came to asserting political agendas.
I didn't have the same experience at UC Santa Cruz--there were activists, but not front and center.
Reporting a professor for ideas expressed in class? The thought never crossed my mind in college, and I wouldn’t have had a clue who to complain to. We need to blame universities for taking these complaints seriously as well as the students who have learned to fear ideas.
Mamdani wants to make it harder for landlords to run checks to ensure that tenants will be able to pay rent.
At the same time, he wants to make it harder for landlords to evict tenants who don’t pay rent.
Subtle way to facilitate what amounts to a seizure of private property.