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Friday Follies 2.8

Stupid Legislative Trick of the Week: Sacrificing the higher education system to balance our state budget.

Sumo suits, those bulky foam outfits seen at office picnics and intermissions at sporting events, have been declared prohibited racist objects by the student government of Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.

Possibly The Most Idiotic Prescription Drug Warning […]

Friday Follies 2.7

Stupid Legislative Trick of the Week: A Minnesota Senate committee has approved a bill requiring state employees to only use lodging with “clean hotel policies and procedures.” And what, may you ask, are those? Well, they are “policies and procedures to reasonably eliminate within the facility the availability of sexually explicit work[.]” And here I […]

South Dakota makes a Top 10 “fairness” list

Often finding itself low in national rankings on items from teacher salaries to average annual pay, South Dakota made the top ten in a new ranking out this week. It is 10th among all 50 states in “the fairness of its litigation environment.”

Of course, all rankings should be taken with a grain of salt. […]

Friday Follies 2.6

Stupid Legislative Trick of the Week: A New York legislator last week introduced a bill that would prohibit restaurants from using salt when preparing customers’ meals.

Folly or bravery for a lawyer who may need to appear before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals? “…two judges from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wiped […]

California attorney general candidate a S.D. assistant attorney general

Seems a California man’s appointment as a special assistant attorney general by South Dakota AG Marty Jackley is causing a bit of stir in California politics.

California’s FlashReport blog reports that when Republican John Eastman formally filed as a candidate for California Attorney General yesterday, the former law school dean listed his occupation, which will […]