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14 Nov 2023, 7:47 am
Is the Federal Trade Commission taking this indefensible legal position out of blind hatred for big tech companies? [read post]
13 Mar 2010, 9:06 am
And from the paper: Nowadays there seems to be a growing sense that the middle-ground approach which now exemplifies the mainstream of legal philosophy of the last fifty years is indefensible. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 4:00 am
I found this quote from a link to COUNSEL for the INDEFENSIBLE, an article in American Heritage magazine: William Fallon, the ‘Great Mouthpiece” of the 1920s, said, ‘Even when he’s drunk, Earl Rogers is better than any other stone-sober lawyer in the whole damned country. [read post]
12 Jun 2010, 9:01 am
That’s one reason why I have little faith the Congress will ultimately do much to remedy the indefensible carried interest tax dodge, which “allows private equity firm managers to pay tax on a large portion of their compensation at the 15 percent capital gains rate, rather than at the 35 percent top income tax rate that would otherwise apply. [read post]
22 Nov 2024, 5:41 am
Ethically, this situation is indefensible. [read post]
SCOTUS Decision Allowing Violent Video Sales To Teens: Devastating Blow To Public Safety and Decency
8 Jul 2011, 9:36 pm
It is absolutely indefensible that the Supreme Court in the late 1960’s used sexual “obscenity” as the basis for allowing the sale of adult magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, yet now refused to expand the definition of “obscene” to include these perverse, twisted violent video games. [read post]
4 Dec 2009, 7:15 am
There is no question that the BRT is seriously flawed, has not accomplished its assigned task, has produced indefensible assessments when it has generated work product, and has had all sorts of other administrative and ethical difficulties.So when the a hearing was held to explore the prospect of eliminating the BRT, six of its members showed up and not only defended their track record, but also expressed outrage at the accusations and criticisms that had been directed at them and the BRT. [read post]
15 Apr 2008, 8:37 am
" This raises a deeper problem with both the op-ed and the article-the unarticulated assumption that Justices who say one thing in a confirmation hearing and then do another are necessarily acting in bad faith or being inconsistent in an indefensible way. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 1:24 pm
They have objected on the bases that (1) the 2009 determination appears to have been created solely to settle the lawsuit without any scientific support; and (2) the timeline set by the decree is entirely unrealistic and will lead to the adoption of scientifically indefensible standards. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 5:39 pm
Today’s children, workers, and students will be especially hard hit, as will future generations that will be stuck with the consequences of this fiscally irresponsible and morally indefensible measure. [read post]
29 May 2015, 1:26 pm
Davis and DiCarmine have offered the traditional “Splendid Isolation” defense—it’s lonely at the top because no one ever tells you anything, or at least tells you anything clearly enough so you can appreciate, with the limited financial acumen characteristic of those running billion-dollar partnerships including some of the most sophisticated lawyers in the world, that the only thing standing between your empire and catastrophic loan defaults that will precipitate an… [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 12:37 pm
Somehow this put me in mind of the ancient tradition of the Spanish bullfight, which may seem like an odd cognitive leap, but go along with me for a moment: The bullfight is one of the few modern occasions where death becomes a spectacle that crowds congregate to witness, recalling public executions of the past.Philosophically, the bullfight is practically indefensible, though many have tried to make a case for it. [read post]
19 Jun 2008, 8:40 pm
The Court upheld the s.204 appeal finding that the failure to consider that this was a case where Reg 8(2) was engaged was indefensible and unlawful. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm
It is indefensible to assert that other dogs are permitted to run loose in the neighborhood in violation of the said ordinance. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 1:45 pm
The Court of Appeals decision is indefensible. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 1:55 am
" As I explain here, that OLC "legal analysis" was indefensible and was plainly concocted for the specific purpose of justifying waterboarding, which quite obviously is intended to result in severe physical suffering. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:31 pm
I suspect the police are fully aware that their actions are indefensible and are therefore willing to exhaust every possible option to prevent any scrutiny whatsoever of their actions. [read post]
11 Jun 2024, 10:40 am
Lond Sumption also commented that the recent convictions against 14 democracy activists are legally indefensible because their plans were merely to exercise power expressly authorised in the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s mini-constitution. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 10:05 am
" It is certainly nice to see Obama going to Baltimore to take on his enemies, but he surely must realize at some point that they are his enemies, who wish only and exclusively his political destruction, and that they will continue to use the absurd and indefensible rules of the Senate to deprive him of anything that he will be able to claim as a truly important "achievement" in 2012. [read post]
22 Nov 2012, 4:00 am
” Well Governor Haley, you may have overstated the truth in your zeal to defend the indefensible. [read post]
