That Lawyer Dude

As promised I have had a chance to read, reread and digest the Supreme Court ruling on Arizona v. United States where a majority of the Sup...

I hope to have more details on this later after digesting the 76 page decision but it seems SCOTUS has knocked out everything in the law tha...

I begin this by saying that I strongly believe in the First Amendment and believe you cannot legislate civility. The City Counsel or Board o...

Yesterday I was pretty critical of President Obama about what I consider to be a basically valueless change in Administrations policy on Im...

Mr. President, Children do not migrate to our nation on their own. They follow their parents. Once here, they try the best they can to assi...

Up front I want to thank Lenny Sienko (http://lennyesq.wordpress.com/) for putting me onto the case of People v. Leonard (http://newyorkc...

I am pleased to welcome Alena Shautsova as a guest blogger on the That Lawyer Dude Blog. Alena is quite a good young lawyer. She is a leader...

Here is the story from the Associate Press : "A Kansas teenager who wrote a disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback is rejecting h...

Thanksgiving was really good. I had a great time hanging with the family. Of course between courses, we had a long discussion about the Penn...

In the comments section of an article in an SI online blog post by Joe Posnanski, Columbia Univ. Adjunct Professor Scott Semer assails Joe ...

Well in a few hours our nation celebrates its Independence from the Tyranny of the British Royal Crown. A few years after the decision to ce...

Tonight the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (POTUS) announced that the CIA in co-ordination with the Pakistani Government located ...

May 1st ought to be a National Holiday. It is the day that America "celebrates" Law Day. Now some of you are saying "Tony wha...

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to...

I entered a poker tournament at Turning Stone Casino in upstate NY. It was part of their Winter Supe...

In an interview with the California Lawyer Magazine US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia declares that the 14th Amendment to the US Con...

ABA Headline : Jailed for Wearing Headscarf to Court caught my attention for a few reasons: 1. It offends me that someone could be arrested...

I went to see "Rain" today. It is a tribute concert to the Beetles. Rain performs the Beetles kind of in concert. There is no Broa...

Prosecutors hate quiet defendants. In fact they will go to great lengths to get them to talk, especially to confess. In New York City over t...

Anyone who blogs for business reasons will tell you: "DON'T Get Political on your business blog." So much for my listening to ...

Today, two people will be sentenced for killing innocent others. One person will have made a series of very bad decisions while intoxicated ...

I have to admit, that I am not crazy about public funding of the airwaves in America. I have no problem with Radio Free Europe and its proge...

Juan Williams is a reporter and commentator for NPR (National Public Radio). He also tries to provided the "balance" on Fox News N...

Hello all, I have found a few light fun things to tell you about. If you have some time you might want to look into them. First Al Nye th...

For a little light reading, I thought I would take you for a short tour of what I found funny (that's to read funny strange not funny HA...