http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com Please recite the facts for the class. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:52:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record [Insert references to Step-Saver v. Wyse Technologies here] http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/07/21/a-lawyer-must-be-to-blame-for-this/ The Clarion-Ledger ran a very interesting article today regarding a former Jackson Police Department officer who plead guilty to vehicular manslaughter and whose record was expunged two years later. The article presents several interesting topics of conversation, not the least of which being the practice of deferred sentencing which appears ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/07/21/acts-and-omissions/ Mississippi has taken another paternalistic step forward. This week, the City of Jackson voted to ban smoking in all restaurants. Reading through the comments on the article, and based on conversations I've heard, there appears to be a general concern for children underlying the support for such a measure. Says ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/07/02/jackson-in-the-age-of-paternalism/ As I noted a couple of months ago, the dust kicked up by last year's Supreme Court decision Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly will take quite a while to settle. In a recent (and ongoing) case in which post-9/11 detainees are suing the federal government, the feds tried to get ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/06/25/bell-atlantic-strikes-again/ Exams finished up last week. I barely had time to catch my breath from the incessant studying before beginning work as a summer clerk yesterday! Looking back at the whirlwind of what was my 1L year, it's hard to believe it's over. Sometimes, when I forget where I am, I ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/05/13/a-third-of-the-way-there/ The attorney/client privilege has many implications, one of which being that in civil cases, a party cannot obtain discovery from the opposing party's lawyer of information told to him by his client. The primary reason for this is that a person has to be able to have 100% trust and ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/04/14/the-dark-side-of-the-attorneyclient-privilege/ Our federal court system operates under a "notice pleading" scheme, which simply means that a complaint filed to begin a lawsuit serves the purpose of putting the defendant on notice of the subject matter of the suit. It has been well-settled that detailed factual allegations are not required at the ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/04/09/bell-atlantic-judge-posner-and-notice-pleading/ In considering restrictive covenants in land deeds, there are two general ways to approach the underlying legal theory. First, the contract theory of equitable servitudes looks at a servitude or a covenant as a device creating a contractual relationship between the parties. So if O conveys a parcel of land ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/04/06/equitable-servitudes-and-the-future-of-the-property-theory/ The goal of practically every law student is to eventually land a job. To that end, many of us begin interviewing for clerkship and internships after our very first semester. There is a detailed etiquette when it comes to how to handle oneself in interviews and afterwards, an etiquette that ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/03/19/how-not-to-interview/ Since Spring Break is now upon us, and upon many other law students around the country, I'd like to share some wise words from our Director of Placement: Do NOT, and I repeat, do NOT do anything stupid that you will have to report to the Board of Bar Admissions. ... http://www.lawschoolchronicles.com/2008/03/14/spring-break/