Every Step You Take Is Forever

"You cant make it go away. None of it. You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else."

[everystepisforever]

When someone asks if I did the reading for class

[everystepisforever]

This little biznatch just drooled all the hell over my $220 antitrust casebook. COMMENCE CORPORAL CUDDLING (and face protection).

[mrbenwyatt]

[illegalities-blog]

Hey Law Students! Follow illegalities!

[everystepisforever]

Laughing at this = how I know I'm going to hell.

[everystepisforever]

Challenge accepted. #beachsmangin #summerforever (at San Luis Pass Beach)

[everystepisforever]

U.S. Judge Consults Oxford Dictionary in Case of Endangered Goat

By David Ingram

(Reuters) - This is the story of an endangered goat, U.S. law and a Washington judge with a love of words.

On Tuesday, Judge Merrick Garland issued a legal opinion in the case of the straight-horned markhor (pronounced mahr-kawr).

The markhor, he wrote, is "an impressive subspecies of wild goat that inhabits an arid, mountainous region of Pakistan."

Some conservationists and hunters in the United States had sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, seeking to downlist the

markhor from endangered to merely threatened - now that it is near record numbers. They also asked to be allowed to import

killed markhor goats as trophies. Their lawsuit alleged that the failure of the Fish and Wildlife Service to take several actions was "arbitrary and capricious" - a familiar phrase in American administrative law.

Garland, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, wrote that it would be tempting to "consider an arbitrary and capricious claim in a case involving a goat."

Why tempting? The judge's footnote said it all:

"See Oxford English Dictionary 2:868-69 (2d ed. 1989) (tracing the origins of the word "capricious" to the musical term "capriccioso," which denotes "a free fantastic style," and which in turn is derived from the Italian "capro," meaning "goat, as ... (in) 'the skip or frisk of a goat'")."

Garland's opinion for a unanimous three-judge panel ordered that the requests by the conservationists and hunters be dismissed as not ripe, lacking standing and moot.

[everystepisforever]

[everystepisforever]

Anti-Inspirations for depressing public service work.

[everystepisforever]

"...The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times. Liberty and security can be reconciled; and in our system they are reconciled within the framework of the law. The Framers decided that habeas corpus, a right of first importance, must be a part of that framework, a part of that law."

Boumediene v. Bush (2008)

[everystepisforever]

Habeas corpus case law under AEDPA

[missmysteries]

DROP THE BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

[everystepisforever]

Let the legal nerdery begin! Oral arguments for United States v. Cannon at 9. (at U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit - Houston)

[uhhh-huh-huh-huh]

[illegalities-blog]

Hey Law Students! Follow illegalities!

[joeydeangelis]

[healingstone]

Why are we told that we’ll regret getting tattoos at such a young age when at the same age we have to decide what we’re going to do for the rest of our lives?

[everystepisforever]

Real talk.

[everystepisforever]

Once more I was trying most strenuously top construct an intimate "world of light" for myself out of the shambles of a period of devastation; once more I sacrificed everything within me to the aim of banishing darkness and evil from myself.

Herman Hesse, "Demian."

[everystepisforever]

This is the last song that I write while still in love with you.

[everystepisforever]

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fuller