President Barack Obama rang in the New Year by signing the NDAA law with its provision allowing him to indefinitely detain citizens. It was a symbolic moment to say the least. With Americans distracted with drinking and celebrating, Obama signed one of the greatest rollbacks of civil liberties in the history of our country . . . and citizens partied only blissfully into the New Year.
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Day: January 2, 2012
One of my torts colleagues sent along an article on a rather bizarre case out of Illinois where an appellate court ruled that a bystander could sue the estate of the victim of a train accident after part of the victim’s body struck the bystander. For those who read the Palsgraf case in first-year torts on proximate causation, the case offers an interesting — if gory — twist.
India is facing yet another case of human sacrifice. Lalita Tati, 7, became the latest victim of tribal sacrifice — murdered in order to offer up her liver to the gods to improve crop growth.
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I just saw this video of a man painting on water that is so amazing that I had to share it.
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Today the kids and I will formally withdraw the colors — taking down our large Bears banner in front of the house to mark the end of the season for our team. My only concern is that the performance of the Bears lends credence to the Mayan prediction of the end of the world in 2012. As God’s team, it is only natural that the apocalypse would begin with this catastrophic season for the Bears — and countervailing success of the Packers. For Bears fans, we will now welcome the End of Times . . . if it will only happen before the Packers win a second Superbowl.