mastodon 4.7.3Attorney with a concentration on construction litigation, land use and government issues. Ride or die for Greta Gerwig. Occasional contributor to Bloomberg, one third of @emp@esq.social. Admin of esq.social assisting @andrew@esq.social.
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I absolutely love small claims pretrial conferences. Someone's called in while getting a massage. He doesn't have to be on video, but he is, shirtless in his massage chair. We get to hear his grunts as the woman behind him (does she know she's on video in open court?) works on him.
The stuff that people were saying proved Jonathan Majors was innocent made the former Public Defender part of me cringe. Thing looked very familiar to anyone who has litigated a lot of DV cases.
I knew in my heart that they’d be out of the Dune 2 buckets but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t hurt.
Small update on the #ReedyCreek #Disney lawsuit against #DeSantis and #Florida: the 11th Circuit just indicated that Disney is on very strong footing.
By 3-0 decision, they held favorably for a State Attorney removed in part for retaliation against political speech, showing willingness to wade into state internal business.
Trump appointee Newsom's concurrence made clear his view that "anti-woke" retaliation and speech restrictions violate the First Amendment.
https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202310459.pdf
@gulovsen@mastodon.social my roommate in college used to play “Crazy Rap” by Afroman constantly. It is not a subtle song.
@Hamm@mastodon.social yeah, that’s the thing--if you can add one additional party as collateral damage, does that mean that it’s ok?
LSD, Psilocybin, ketamine, and ecstasy are going to struggle with the reputational hit of being associated with Elon Musk
As a land use guy I’m fascinated by this project. I think that the local government level is in some ways an ideal way for these venture-idealists types to build their “city of the future” stuff, as they will have freedom to create many of their own rules, but can always be subject to the supervision of State laws. It worked for Disney.
Proposal: an app that will use generative AI to keep a scammer busy by automatically responding to text messages with more and more excuses and questions about buying apple gift cards.
Interesting suggestions for my simple math problem, Copilot.
The scary truth about our society is that our quiet enjoyment of life is dependent on unspoken, jointly agreed upon fictions that prevent us from exercising the maximum of our abilities. Our son has unfortunately discovered that bedtime is a ruse and that there is functionally no penalty for violating this hallowed tradition. I fear for the peace of our household.
Watching a once-in-a-decade astronomical phenomenon: 👎
Doing my civic duty by sitting in the fluorescent-lit jury assembly room just in case the other panel doesn’t work out: 👍🫡
I've started to lose hope that the universe's writers ever actually had an answer to the "chicken or the egg" question when they started. At this point I don't think we'll ever get a clean answer. Really disappointing.