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13 Jun 2007, 4:21 pm
1) Sir Stephen's DNA is and will remain on file indefinitely. 2) The court's reasons for acquittal were impeccably expressed but are still unlikely to placate the 'it's a fix' brigade.3) A senior lawyer who knows all three parties on the bench as well as Sir Stephen says that this will set an irresistible precedent for DJs to sit with lay colleagues in the future. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 12:09 am by Paul Caron
Saturday: This Week's Ten Most Popular TaxProf Blog Posts 12th Annual Junior Tax Scholars Workshop Concludes Today At Toronto How Professors Can Avoid The "Summer Slump" Sunday: As More States Kill Their Estate Taxes, Will The Push To Repeal The Federal Estate Tax Become Irresistible? [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 10:25 am
The temptation to use funds from your 401k are often irresistable. [read post]
1 Jun 2022, 12:05 am by Paul Caron
Following up my previous posts on law school co-deans (see below): Patrick McKenna (Legal Evolution), Sharing Law Firm Leadership: NOT for the Faint of Heart: Many lawyers and law firms find co-leadership irresistible, as they evaluation only the "plus" side of the equation. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 2:50 pm by Bruce
We don’t write about legal doctrine very much—make that hardly ever—but every once in awhile a ruling, precedent, or line of cases strikes such a discordant note that it’s irresistible to question the rationale behind it. [read post]
21 Feb 2018, 7:15 am by Matthew R. Arnold, Esq.
Despite the calls for restraint, many find social media simply too irresistible and can inadvertently undermine their cases by saying or doing the wrong thing and then broadcasting it far and wide. [read post]
7 Sep 2022, 8:02 am by Patrick A. Malone
The round, shiny, and ubiquitous batteries have proven to be irresistible to the pint-sized and curious, who gulp them down after they find them scattered around or pry them free from an array of gadgets, including, the New York Times reported, “television remotes, key fobs, thermometers, scales, toys, flame-free candles — even singing greeting cards. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 5:23 pm by Bill Otis
Off topic but irresistable:  Right now (8:30 p.m. [read post]
21 Aug 2009, 9:46 am
The news that Peter Mandelson, the Lord-High-Everything-Else, has had medical attention to his prostate puts me irresistibly in mind of the late (and poisonous) Evelyn Waugh, who said, on hearing that Randolph Churchill had had a non-malignant growth removed: "It is a typical triumph of modern science to find the only bit of Randolph that is not malignant, and take it out".Some years ago Tony Benn suffered a rare neurological complaint, now happily cured, that put him on crutches… [read post]
4 Jan 2009, 5:53 pm
The most recent term was irresistible impulse test, which is defined as:A seldom-used test for criminal insanity that labels the person insane if he could not control his actions when committing the crime, even though he knew his actions were wrong. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 10:39 am by Randy Barnett
(Randy Barnett) On her blog With Irresistable Clearness (a Spooner phrase), political science professor (and Spooner scholar) Helen Knowles remembers Lysander Spooner’s birthday today by reproducing a harsh letter he write to Senator William Seward three days after his birthday.Three days after his birthday in 1860, Spooner wrote to William H. [read post]
22 Dec 2006, 4:33 pm
Courtesy of my DealUniversity, one of the “deal” sites that is responsible for slowing draining away my children’s education funds, came an irresistable deal. [read post]
31 Jul 2008, 5:21 pm
You youngsters out there may not get the Rolling Stone reference (a big, big, song in the early 70s), but it is an irresistable one for me to make in announcing my newest article, because the article is featured on the cover of the August 2008 CITATIONS (along with my picture, to the great misfortune of the magazine’s subscriber base). [read post]
23 Dec 2012, 8:34 am by Taja-Nia Henderson
On Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled that an employee could be lawfully terminated because her employer found her to be an "irresistible attraction." [read post]
22 Sep 2013, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
Whether or not the Drug War counts as an irresistible force, it seems to have run into an immovable object in the form of New York City teacher tenure [New York Law Journal]: Termination was too harsh a penalty for a tenured teacher who created a spurt of news stories after he was found with bags of heroin when trying to enter Manhattan Supreme Court, where he was serving on jury duty…. [read post]
21 Nov 2006, 9:00 pm
The inmates need not participate, but sometimes do, despite their lawyers' advice not to, seeing how irresistible it can be for an inmate anywhere to open his or her mouth before a tribunal -- like this one -- that does not permit the presence of defense attorneys. [read post]
29 May 2007, 11:51 am
., is an irresistable-force, immovable-object, Chuck-Norris-like-awesome worker's compensation attorney. [read post]
29 Mar 2008, 9:30 am
A few years ago, a stranger made Jimmy Covington an irresistible offer.He was sitting on the steps of an office building when an elderly woman approached him. [read post]