Eugster Law & Comment

George Orwell once wrote:
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
Law and lawyering is very much like Orwell’s “serious sport.” 
Now of course you will say “not true, [...]

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Where are those few lawyers of the late 60’s and early 70’s who cared about the poor, the outcast, the overwhelmed, the environment, the public trust, the public interest?  They no longer exist, for the very most part.  The lawyers, judges, people who appoint judges, the people who elect judges, the law schools and the professors [...]

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Martha Nussbaum speaking to Bill Moyers about ethics, trust in others and the hope of such trust, and tragedy on YouTube here.  For more about Martha Nussbaum see Taimur Kahn’s website.

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The Washington Court of Appeals, Division Three, decided another case dealing with whether the Washington Public Disclosure Act (RCW Ch. 42.56) applies to non-public entities which provide government services at the behest of the government. Leonora Claire Clarke v. Tri-Cities Animal Care & Control Shelter, No. 25222-1 - III (Apr. 24, 2008). In this case, [...]

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A fallacy of logic is a method of reasoning that does not have a sound basis in reason.
One fallacy we have quick recognition of is ad hominem argument  or  argumentum ad hominem (Latin: “argument to the man”, “argument against the man”).  Using this fallacy, one replies to an argument or factual claim by saying something about the [...]

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In Richard Sobol’s book Bending the Law: The Story of the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy , a rather momentous example of earwigging of a federal district court judge is described.
In the Preface to the book, Mr. Sobol describes how A. H. Robins Company, the manufacturer of the Dalkon Shield, sought to consolidate the Dalkon Shield Litigation [...]

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The Scruggs Matter may provide food for understanding and speculation about the Oedipus Complex.
The Oedipus Complex has to do with the love - hate relationship of the child to the father or father figure. Freud, as I recall, speculated that the boy child wanted to replace the father in the affections of the mother. Maybe, [...]

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