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Reading the Ratio

Reading the #Ratio with @ramapublishing #lawrevision #londonlawstudent

The air is chill, the nights are longer and the warmth and fun of fresher’s week is a distant memory. I would also imagine that you are now deep into term one of law school and inevitably questioning at points why am I doing this and how did I even get here. All while resisting the siren calls of Netflix to ignore your problems for a little while longer with yet another episode of RuPaul’s Drag…

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[littlebrigade]

Watch JUNO enter Jupiter's orbit live tonight!! Links for live broadcasts below. Juno is currently traveling toward Jupiter at 160,000 mph. The fastest human made object in space ever. TONIGHT she will slam on her breaks by firing her main engines in reverse. After 5 long yrs getting to Jupiter, she has a tiny 35 min window to catch her orbit. The alternatives? Crash into Jupiter or fly off into the vastness of space. Go Juno! Live feeds (simulcast): http://facebook.com/NASA * http://ustream.tv/NASAJPL2 (with chat) http://youtube.com/nasajpl/live http://nasa.gov/ntv ................ Time (with conversions): 7:30-9 p.m. PT / 10:30-midnight ET / 02:30-04:00 UTC/GMT * Facebook Live from 8-9 p.m. PT / 11-midnight ET / 3-4am UTC/GMT Juno Orbiter and Jupiter photo credit - Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech #Juno #Jupiter #NASASocial #nasa #jpl #nasajpl #obiter #orbit #spacecraft #spaceexploration #solarsystem (at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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Fantastic day at @NASAJPL yesterday with @NASASocial! I'll post all the great pics tomoro. Today is all about @NASAJUNO - she enters Jupiter's orbit tonight!!! #Juno #Jupiter #NASASocial #nasa #jpl #nasajpl #obiter #orbit #spacecraft #spaceexploration #solarsystem (at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

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Although I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon, I never understood the Constitution to require a State to give such preference. (My dissenting Brother asks me to say that this statement does not necessarily represent his views on the respective merits of Scotch and bourbon.)

Black J, dissent

Department of Revenue v. James B. Beam Distilling Co., 377 U.S. 341 (1964)

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Before proceeding further, the Court notes that this case involves two extremely likable lawyers, who have together delivered some of the most amateurish pleadings ever to cross the hallowed causeway into Galveston, an effort which leads the Court to surmise but one plausible explanation. Both attorneys have obviously entered into a secret pact--complete with hats, handshakes and cryptic words--to draft their pleadings entirely in crayon on the back sides of gravy-stained paper place mats, in the hope that the Court would be so charmed by their child-like efforts that their utter dearth of legal authorities in their briefing would go unnoticed. Whatever actually occurred, the Court is now faced with the daunting task of deciphering their submissions. With Big Chief tablet readied, thick black pencil in hand, and a devil-may-care laugh in the face of death, life on the razor's edge sense of exhilaration, the Court begins."

Bradshaw v. Unity Marine Corporation, Inc., 147 F. Supp. 2d 668 (S.D. Tex. 1991)

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This case charges defendant Sproed with catching butterflies in a National Park. (...) It would not be surprising to find that most of our citizens would be embittered if accused of such a heinous crime.

United States v. Sproed, 628 F. Supp. 1234 (D. Or. 1986)