Defending People

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The Coming TOS Boom.

Mark Bennett | November 29, 2008

I admit that I confine my blog reading to the small-batch artisanal blogs. These are blogs that are not supported by advertising, not written for mass consumption, and that are mostly written by a single author who has other things to do with her life.
This means that I miss out on blogs like The Volokh [...]

Lucky Stars — an Anti-Whine.

Mark Bennett | June 16, 2007

Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice informs us that, in the People’s Democratic Republic of New York, there is no right to expunction (only he calls it “expungement,” which, according to my OED, is “rare” — not that there’s anything wrong with that). So I presume that if you get arrested for something in New York, [...]