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So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community. Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780): Commentaries on the Laws of England, 9th ed., book 1, chapter 1, section 3, p. 139 (1783, reprinted 1978).

... University's In Focus features law prof Deborah Denno, a leading scholar of lethal injection studies, "Legal Scholar's Research Uncovers 'Cruel and Unusual' Nature of Administering Lethal Injection." The name William Kemmler doesn't ring a bell for ... to comment that it would have been more humane to have killed him with an axe. As a law clerk in 1990, Deborah Denno, Ph.D., the Arthur A. McGivney Professor of Law, was fascinated with the details of the gruesome case as it applied to the Eighth ...

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... Jones Magazine. A recent arbitration involving a Coffee Beanery franchisee serves as a cautionary tale to anyone considering a franchise. Deborah Williams and Richard Welshans of Annapolis, Maryland, paid $25,000 in 2003 for a 15-year Coffee Beanery ... up and running, however, they realized that the Coffee Beanery franchisor made money by selling franchises, not coffee. Williams and Welshans started getting bills for surveillance equipment, a music system, an obsolete $14,000 lighting system, an ...

... for other nursing homes) tend to rule for the nursing homes and rig the system in favor of the homes. On the second panel: Deborah Williams, a Maryland woman (and another lifelong Republican) who, along with her partner Richard Welshan, had a franchise ... fault for not researching the Coffee Beanery on the internet and discovering in advance that they were defrauding people. Ms. Williams described the various steps that she had taken to do due diligence about the Coffee Beanery prior to becoming a ...

... Dunn Law and Finance Professors, represented by Frances S. Cohen of Bingham McCutchen (Specifically, the professors are William Baumol, Michael Bradley, William Carney, Stephen Choi, Robert Clark, John Coates, Allen Ferrell, Joseph Grundfest, Ehud Kamar, ... of America National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys North American Securities Administrators Association Professors Deborah DeMott and Mark Ascher Professors Robert Litan, Robert Mason, and Ian Ayres The United States Even by ...

Deborah Williams, 56, Pasadena, Maryland, the owner of a Severna Park title company, pleaded guilty to mail fraud related to a scheme to divert settlement funds to her own benefit. According to her plea agreement, Williams was the sole officer and director of Day Title, Incorporated, a title company with offices in Severna Park, Maryland, that conducted residential and commercial real estate closings and issued title insurance policies. From April 14, … Read More...

Stanford hosted lecture entitled "Brainstorms: Computing and the Problem of Evil' is tomorrow, Wednesday Nov 7 at 7:30 - 9 pm, William R. Hewlett Teaching Center, Room 200. I'm planning to attend, along with folks I know from SRI. Check the blurb at http://csp.stanford.edu

Toss a hedgehog, go to jail.... NZ man 'used hedgehog as weapon' A man in New Zealand has been charged with using a hedgehog as a weapon, the New Zealand Herald has reported. Police said William Singalargh, 27, had hurled the hedgehog about 5m (16ft) at a 15-year-old boy. "It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks," said Senior Sgt Bruce Jenkins, in the North Island town of Whakatane. It was unclear whether the hedgehog was still alive when it was thrown, ...

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), U.S. president: Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States, vol. IV, p. 103, ed. Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 5 vols. (1922-1926), Diary (January 23, 1883).