Archive For October, 2011
TweetShareDear President Obama, You’ve failed, abjectly, to address the housing and foreclosure crisis. What galls me most about your failures are the excuses presented for them. Your apologists explain that your efforts were the best policy politically possible, and that you consistently underestimated the crisis/had bad data. But here’s the thing: you never tried to [...]
TweetShareIn law school I was lucky enough to be mentored by sociologist and law professor Jerome H. Skolnick. We studied policing together, co-authored a couple of papers. Policing in America is the history of power in our society, and it is important context for police-#Occupy interactions. In short, ‘undesirables’ have long been targets for violent [...]
TweetShareRight on the heels of having a Federal Judge derail–at least for now–BofA’s effort to jam a self-serving securities fraud settlement through state court, BofA won the biggest battle for a friendly judge in another case. As Susan Beck of AmLaw Litigation Daily reports (sub. req.), a federal judge agreed with BofA that two mortgages [...]
TweetShareOne of the reasons I’m not a litigator is because so many things determine the outcome of a case other than what is right under the law and our Constitutions, State and Federal. A biggie is the “forum” a case will be heard in, such as State versus Federal Court. Plaintiffs in class actions–generally 99%ers [...]
TweetShareUPDATE: NO WALL STREET SHUTDOWN! The corporate owners blinked. Wise decision. Meanwhile, any evicted OccupationElsewhere can continue with either suggestion below: live in the park on same terms the homeless are forced to accept, or get your supporters to house you so you can occupy in shifts. And anyone unsure why the Occupy movement is [...]
TweetShareDear Occupy Wall Street (and all your sister cities): What you have begun is beautiful and powerful, thank you. I will not presume to tell you what to do; you are building good process and setting a good example of how to insist on being heard. You are nonviolent; tidy; polite; welcoming; expressive and actively [...]
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