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Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’

Ninth Circuit Upholds Statute Giving Immunity In Spying Case

04 Jan

One of the Christmas presents the major telecommunication companies received last week is the opinion Hepting v. AT&T Corp. out of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That case considered whether Congress had the authority to retroactively immunize AT&T and…

 

ABA gives Law School Coal for Christmas, Law School uses Coal for Fuel to Sue

29 Dec

On December 20, 2011, the American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education denied provisional accreditation to Lincoln Memorial University’s Duncan School of Law. On December 22, 2011, the law school filed suit against the ABA in the United States District…

 

Where is the Legislation That Banned Christmas?

25 Dec

First published in LLB on Dec. 25, 2007. Cromwellian apologists, like the Cromwell Association, argue that there is no evidence to support the myth that Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas: There is no sign that Cromwell personally played a particularly large…

 

Friday Fun: Santa Visits the Library During Finals Week

23 Dec

Santa visits LSU Middleton Library during finals week. Student: I’ve been a good boy, Santa Santa: What would you like for Christmas? Student: A’s on my finals. Santa: I don’t know if I can quite pull that off but I’ll…