Read this, please: “John Fund [of the WSJ], after discussing how disgruntled the GOP base may be, has it exactly right: ‘Republicans have appeared to the world to be as unprincipled and rudderless as the politicians they campaigned against back in 1994. Unless they change course dramatically in the seven…
I am a little late in posting today because I have been busy preparing for a speech and panel discussion in Knoxville. The Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy is honoring Justices Drowota, Anderson and Birch today; I have been invited to speak about the impact that these gentlemen have…
Cameron Diaz has won her lawsuit over unauthorized sale of photos of her topless.
I am out of town today giving a speech for the Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys. I won’t likely get a chance for a substantive post, unfortunately.
Tom Delay is resigning from Congress. For the latest on this issue, see this article from the Washington Post. This article tells us how the circle is closing around Delay. Or should I say noose.
The Appellate Cour Nominating Commission will be meeting on April 20 and 21, 2006 to select three people to recommend to the Governor to serve on one of the two open spots on the Tennessee Supreme Court. As of the application deadline of March 31, 2006, at 4:30 p.m. CST,…
Kim McMillan has announced that she will not run for re-election to the Tennessee House of Representatives. Kim is a Democrat from Clarksville and has served for six terms (twelve years). She is the first female Majority Leader of the House in the history of the state. Kim is one…
This article from Lawyers Weekly U.S.A. explains that insurance defense lawyers are seeing an increased in the number of professional negligence claims filed against them. An excerpt: “According to an ABA study released last summer, malpractice claims against personal injury defense lawyers increased 6 percent from 1999 to 2003 –…
Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. my grandmother died at home at the age of 97. My wife Joy and I leave for Wisconsin this morning; the funeral is Saturday in Platteville, a college town of 10,000 people. Platteville is in the Southwest corner of the state and about nine miles…
The death of Natalee Holloway is a tragedy in every sense of the word. It is a tragedy compounded by screaming skulls (as opposed to talking heads) like Nancy Grace, a pseudo-journalist who has successfully managed to purge any gray matter she might have of anything she was supposed to…