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We, at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, are both proud and sad to announce today that a major leader in the ADR movement, our dean, Nancy Rogers, will serve as interim attorney general. She is still a member of our faculty, though, and has taken a leave from the university to [...]

(HT: Dirty Harry) Movie critic and screenwriter of 1970's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Roger Ebert, has opined on Sarah Palin: Palin is a shallow, chirpy person with those vaguely alarming eyeglasses. Now her fans all want a pair. Remember back when women wore glasses that departed their ears in plastic swoops and swirls? My theory is, anyone who wears glasses that look weird is telling me ...

... by the Times-News: Supreme Court weighs Johnson case Idaho Supreme Court justices will have to decide whom to blame for Sarah Johnson's botched defense: the judge or her attorney. Guessing from the blasting that Johnson's absent attorney received, the furious scribbling ... , the triggerman must have been somebody else. Never did that defense seem more regrettable than Friday when Justice Roger S. Burdick, at Johnson's appeal, called that once memorable line "some silly jingle." As it turned out just ...

After I briskly kick off a discussion of the bad "creative writing" in Sarah Palin's memoir, Palladian says that should have been the first line. And, for more Palin memoir fun, don't miss the unusually wacky "Duct tape" thread. Click here to get to the comments after the 200th. 201, by Roger J. is: "This has got to be abolutely the most screwball post I have ever seen, and damn if its not going hit 200 comments! Wow--just wow." Andrea had me ...

by Roger Alford One of the remarkable differences between the Obama Administration and the Bush Administration in terms of international litigation is the utter silence of this State Department in filing amicus briefs and/or statements of interest. I know that Harold Koh has only been Legal Adviser since June and Sarah Cleveland has only been Counselor on International Law since September, but I frankly am quite surprised by the passivity of this State ...

... the lefty FireDogLake observed: ... there is a striking lack of awareness of the context into which they launched it. Fifteen percent of people in this country believe that Obama is a Muslim. You have to be really stupid to believe something like this, but as Roger Simon notes, it probably doesn't encourage people to vote for him in America today. Most people who see this cover are just going to see the image of Obama in a turban. It reinforces a critical piece of misinformation that right wing ...

... handle J.T. Leroy's business interests and a woman who acted as a manager for Leroy, the corporation, and Albert. Though Sarah was published as fiction, defendants allegedly made a number of public statements strongly suggesting that it was based on J. ... Dastar, crafting medium-specific rules rather than defining words in the Lanham Act to cover all products and services. Rogers also left open the possibility of liability for explicit falsehoods in titles, like Ginger Rogers: My Story, whereas the ...

... McCain/Bush/Palin: Completely Unqualified Sunday Pam Spaulding, Pam's House Blend, Sarah Palin's diversity in action as governor: cronies and classmates - and definitely no ... of time.") National Security Network, Heartbeat It seems that it's not just that Gov. Sarah Palin hates cats. She hates other animals too: see Defenders of ... , The Atlantic, The Palin interview Deepak Chopra, Obama and The Palin Effect Roger Ebert on Sarah Palin: The American Idol candidate Matt Damon Condemns Palin Ben Smith, ...

... Daniel Hollenbaugh emails: "Glenn - As a Republican, I almost hate to say it, but after seeing Sarah speak, I can't wait for Saturday Night Live to return. Tina Fey ... "Too bad it's not a Palin-McCain ticket." A reader emails: "New Sarah Palin Topic: Is Air Force One safe from E-bay?" Lorie Byrd: ... yourself -- John Stephenson has the video. Beldar is swooning. And some thoughts from Roger Simon, who was there. Dale Carpenter: "On the substance of it, I was relieved the speech was free of red-meat ...

Source: From the Desk of: Sarah (Sally) Holterhoff - AALL President. May 17, 2007. Three to Receive Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award Carol Billings, Roger Jacobs, and Cossette Sun, three longtime and respected law librarians and AALL members, ... American Association of Law Libraries, the New Orleans Association of Law Libraries, and the Louisiana Library Association. Roger Jacobs has had an active 44-year career in law librarianship and legal education, including ...