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Diversion From Outlining

Posted on April 19, 2008
Need a break from outlining? Head on over to PrawfsBlog and vote on the Most Screwed Victim in Caselaw History. I voted for Peevyhouse. Who did you vote for? SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Diversion From Outlining", url: "http://fightthehypo.com/2008/04/19/diversion-from-outlining/" });

Bad Faith As The Key To Tort Reform

Posted on April 17, 2008
We had an okay class discussion about tort reform recently in Torts. (At this point in the semester I think we’re all too exhausted for a heated or animated debate on the topic.) It amuses me that the words “tort reform” are always put in quotes in our casebook - and even in the way it [...

Civil Law and Religious Authority

Posted on April 16, 2008
Pope Benedict the XVI is here, our Campus has been scrubbed from top to bottom, and the faithful are lining up in droves to get tickets to see the Holy Father pray the Rosary and say mass. Not being a Roman Catholic, I don?t find myself all that excited, but I respect the religious choices [...

Catholic Univ. Law Professor At SCOTUS Today

Posted on April 15, 2008
Former Justice Thomas clerk and Catholic University Law Professor Peter “Bo” Rutledge will be arguing before the Supreme Court today in the case of Irizarry v. United States. The case involves the sentence imposed on a man who threatened to harm his wife...

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Ennui.

Posted on April 13, 2008
:(n) a feeling of utter weariness and discontent resulting from satiety or lack of interest; boredom. So exams are roughly 3 weeks away, and I could not care less.� Sure, I?m aware of the effect that positive (or negative) grades can have on my overall academic and career trajectory, but I?m boiled cabbage compared with the [...

Last Lawyering Skills Class

Posted on April 12, 2008
Last Lawyering Skills Class + Heineken = Recipe For Success SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Last Lawyering Skills Class", url: "http://fightthehypo.com/2008/04/12/last-lawyering-skills-class/" });

Dram Shop Liability (for Lousy Drinks)

Posted on April 07, 2008
So Mrs. Bombay and I were at a wedding this weekend in Philadelphia, and stopped off for a drink with some friends for a drink. The selected venue was an establishment called The Continental, which holds itself out to be a martini bar. I sat down and ordered a pair of ?Dirty Goose Martini?s, Straight [...

Every Law School Needs An Official Blog

Posted on April 03, 2008
So, I’ve been toying around with SearchMe today. It’s a cool visual search engine (click on the screenshot to the right to see it). Still in beta form, but it’s open registration to try it out. I think it’s pretty cool. The whole premise is that you see the pages that come back in a [...

Epiphany

Posted on April 02, 2008
As our recent foray in poetry suggests, the 1 L rite of passage that is the Appellate Brief is now finished. Oral Arguments are next, followed by exams, and then I, for one, am going to collapse into a heap. Other than exhaustion and caffeine addiction, one of things that I find most amazing about law [...

Posner on Bell Atlantic v. Twombly

Posted on April 02, 2008
In a RICO case, Judge Posner opined on the post-Twombly standard on motions to dismiss under Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6). (H/T How Appealing) The case involved an allegation that a municipal government had pre-empted their efforts at building a marina on their land by conspiring in a “continuing violation” of the RICO statute...

Appellate Brief Haiku

Posted on April 01, 2008
Submit your very own Haiku honoring (slandering?) your 1L Appellate Brief. All schools welcome. Here’s mine: You red clad devil. Your page limit frustrates me. Can’t wait to burn you.* * after I submit you, get a grade, and get you back, of course...

On Newsstands - US News Rankings

Posted on March 31, 2008
They’ve been out for about a week already, but the US News & World Report’s 2008 Law School Rankings are out on newsstands today. Our school’s response is muted and focuses (correctly in this PR Guy’s view) on the school’s year-to-year improvement...

A Music Tax? The Extortionary Ways of the Music Industry

Posted on March 29, 2008
Mike Arrington at TechCrunch has several good stories on a proposed “music tax” which the recording industry is seeking to impose on listeners. As per usual the industry is talking out of both sides of its mouth by suggesting that the tax would not be mandatory but would instead be a voluntary scheme that ISPs [...

US News Rankings Preview

Posted on March 27, 2008
Even though we’re building a case against the US News Rankings here at Fight The Hypo (stay tuned), we were pretty excited to see this leaked Top 100 of the rankings listing Catholic U at #86 (up 11 spots from last year)!! No matter how much we read about how bogus these rankings are or [...

Springtime in Washington

Posted on March 26, 2008
There’s not much better than springtime in Washington. I was psyched this morning to wake up to a forecasted high of 67 today - so much so that I donned a golf shirt for the first time this year (big day for any pseudo-yuppy). I’ve also gotten to play some golf - including one round with [...

Practice Tip: Claim The Obvious

Posted on March 21, 2008
If you’re a Florida (or Michigan) resident suing the Democratic National Committee because their primary rules have disenfranchised you, it might be helpful to allege that you actually voted. From pages 6-7 of today’s 11th Circuit opinion in DiMaio v...

Summer Classes!

Posted on March 19, 2008
So, after overcoming the technical issues with the online registration system, the Fight The Hypo crew is registered for summer classes. We’re not taking any classes that are GPA-padders. Each course is a central part of our legal edcuation either because it meets a requirement of our school or it’s on the bar...

Why Can?t I Just Go On Vacation?

Posted on March 18, 2008
Since I entered law school, I've begun to approach some things differently. Like reading a rental agreement for a vacation property at the beach. It's fascinating to me how new things are fitting together and what was once an inaccessible, unintelligible mish-mash of legalese is starting to make sense.

Introducing New Contributor Sally Proust

Posted on March 17, 2008
It’s my pleasure to start the week off by introducing you to my friend, classmate, and new writer on Fight The Hypo - Sally Proust. I think you’ll find her mix of sass and sweetness refreshing, given our predilection around here for old-man-bitterness and cynicism...

Law Firm Harassment Flash Card

Posted on March 14, 2008
Copyranter points us to this priceless ad on sexual harrassment that ran in the Chicago area. It’s the case study method of print advertising which can sometimes be quite effective. This ad is brilliant! Sort of. Okay not really. Kind of disturbing actually and far from effective...

From The ?Please Tell Me This Is A Dream? File

Posted on March 13, 2008
This is from our Torts reading for tonight. Make sure you test the floor of the Port-O-John next time… The case for the plaintiffs was that they were tenants of the defendant, which controlled the house wherein they lived and also the adjoining house, and provided a detached privy for the use of both houses; [...

Can A Fan Sue When His Team Loses On Purpose?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Sadly, those seeking to use the courts to hold the Cheatriots accountable for their racketeering have chickened out. Dr. Bombay said then (as did others) that the suit was likely to be dismissed. The question remains though - how can you sue a pro sports team? I’ve been thinking that there must be a way to [...

Top 25 Best Values in Law School

Posted on March 11, 2008
Everyone who has been through the law school application process knows exactly where their school sits in the rankings. The general perception is that the entire legal education market is a pyramid, and if you get better LSAT scores, you go to a better school, which gets you a better job, etc...

Your School Sucks - Why Should We Hire You?

Posted on March 10, 2008
Despite the fact that we’re just 1Ls, a lot of the folks in our program are concerned with job prospects after school. A friend of mine recently interviewed for a non-legal position at one of the top law firms in town here, and while I’m not surprised at what he found during the interview, it [...

?I?m Not a _. I?m a Lawyer Who Does _?

Posted on March 05, 2008
I just caught up with a good friend who graduated recently from my law school. She’s currently looking for a new career - not because she doesn’t love the law (she does, actually), but because her personality doesn’t take well to much of the work involved in being a lawyer (i...

The Scheduling Conundrum

Posted on March 04, 2008
J. Louis May over The Legal Scoop has this good rundown of the challenges of course selection (something many of us here at Fight The Hypo are grappling with). The primary issue being: Do I take a course that’s not required but is tested on the Bar or should I pursue classes more directly relate [...

Movie Review: There Will Be Blood

Posted on March 03, 2008
“There Will Be Blood” is a good movie (for the first time ever, Mrs. Sherpa is wrong on this). Daniel Day Lewis - though he’s playing a similar character to Bill “The Butcher” Cutting - is excellent and his character is exceedingly evil...

Wikipedia As Study Tool

Posted on February 28, 2008
I like to link to wikipedia articles. I like the value added by a site that aggregates knowledge while setting up controls - computer and human - to screen contributions for self-promotion and inaccuracy. Of course, the law-related entries on there are not SCOTUS truth nor are they to be quoted for exams...

Attack of the Wiener Dogs.

Posted on February 27, 2008
A close friend of mine was recently bitten by her beloved dachshund. (Mercifully, she?s alright.) I’m also told that her husband was able to stay his murderous wrath and not punt the dog, which makes him a better man than me. Like everything these days, it got me wondering what the legal ramifications of being [...

Extra Last Minute Assignments

Posted on February 26, 2008
I’m generally busy at work. So when I get an extra reading assignment from a professor at 2:20 p.m. for that night’s class, I’m not happy. I got such an assignment today - and I was livid. Particularly since in tonight’s Torts class we’re discussing proximate cause and that hopelessly ridiculous case, Palsgraf v...

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