Archive for May 1st, 2009

An excerpt from a footnote in my Law Review article

Here is a hope­fully use­ful excerpt from a foot­note in my Law Review arti­cle. It’s not the whole foot­note, and I’m not going to share the entire arti­cle for at least some time, as I have other plans for it. But this one foot­note, the result of many, many hours of research, could be use­ful to oth­ers and I thought I would share it. (For those who are inter­ested, the arti­cle is not really about same-​​​​sex mar­riage as such, but about an obscure lit­tle choice of law prob­lem in one of the very few areas where fed­eral courts have to look into the valid­ity of a mar­riage [ . . . ]

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“Knock, Knock!”

“Who’s there?” “Orange.” “Orange who?” “Orange you glad you didn’t vote for McCain!” I still say Stevens is due — he’ll be 89 this year. And Gins­burg has health issues. Luck­ily all three are part of the lib­eral bloc and will be replaced with lib­er­als — not likely to upset court bal­ance. I’m in the mid­dle of finals week in my last semes­ter in law school. Assum­ing I pass every­thing, I’ll grad­u­ate on May 17th, which is inci­den­tally the septen­vig­in­ten­nial of my birth.