The Church where I was married- June 29, 2008 When I got married at the Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown, the Jesuit priest (who is no longer a priest) suggested privately that he would not be too strict about who took Communion.The same church is where the funeral mass for Tim Russert was held. The Post reporter Sally Quinn has drawn fire for taking communion there on that occasion.Before our wedding I told one of my relatives, who was concerned about alcoholic beverages, that not only were the Southern Baptists not required to drink...http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/church-where-i-was-married.html More pro se litigants- June 29, 2008 The Norfolk paper has this article on the perceived rise in the number of litigants representing themselves.http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/more-pro-se-litigants.html On the voters of Appalachia- June 29, 2008 Here is a pointless piece from Newsweek, a guy named Steve who grew up in Western Virginia and later was a student at the College of William & Mary. (If you can imagine such a person.) Is some of it missing, or is it sort of a parody I wonder.It says in part, "In a close election come November, the difference between President McCain and President Obama could come down to me and my people: a bunch of ornery, racist, coal-minin', banjo-pickin', Scots-Irish hillbillies clinging to our guns and...http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-voters-of-appalachia.html The ruling on the constitutionality of Va. Code 57-9- June 29, 2008 Here is the opinion by Judge Randy Bellows of the Circuit Court of Fairfax County, 49 pages on the constitutionality of Va. Code 57-9 as applied to the Episcopal church cases.http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/ruling-on-constitutionality-of-va-code.html That thing adjudicated- June 28, 2008 In the latest VBA Journal, Judge Kelsey of the Court of Appeals has a somewhat provocative article on res judicata and Rule 1:6 as a response to the perceived defects of the Supreme Court's analysis in Davis v. Marshall Homes, Inc., 265 Va. 159, 576 S.E.2d 504 (2003).And, I'm not sure that I entirely agree with it, which usually means that it doesn't fit with some cockamamie theory that I have been cooking up about a particular case.http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/that-thing-adjudicated.html Papa Joe Smiddy documentary- June 28, 2008 It says here that U.Va.-Wise has released a documentary on DVD of the life and times of Joe Smiddy.Here is one of the best Joe Smiddy stories.Here is one place where you can buy a "Butter Beans" CD, which is mainly what I like to listen to when I am riding in Dad's truck. This bean story has the lyrics.http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/papa-joe-smiddy-documentary.html Peer-to-peer network administrator convicted in W.D. Va. for pirating copyrighted material- June 28, 2008 The United States Department of Justice issued this press release detailing the conviction on Thursday in Big Stone Gap of a peer-to-peer network administrator for pirating movies and such.The press release says: "The case is the first criminal conviction after jury trial for P2P copyright infringement. Doves conviction is the eighth conviction resulting from Operation D-Elite, a nationwide federal crackdown against the illegal distribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music over..http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/peer-to-peer-network-administrator.html President Bush to attend session of W.D. Va.- June 28, 2008 The Charlottesville paper reports here that President Bush will attend the naturalization event at Monticello on the 4th.http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/president-bush-to-attend-session-of-wd.html The insignificance of Miller-Jenkins- June 26, 2008 This article on Findlaw, titled "The Virginia Supreme Court Enforces Vermont's Custody and Visitation Order Regarding a Same-Sex Couple's Child: Why an Anti-Same-Sex-Marriage State Recognized a Same-Sex Union For This Purpose", points out that the recent Supreme Court case was decided on technical grounds, and even so came with a warning from the Chief Justice in his separate opinion that might be a preview of how he (if not others) would decide future cases on the merits.http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/insignificance-of-miller-jenkins.html On the right of the people to keep and bear arms- June 26, 2008 The Supreme Court decided today by a 5-4 vote in the D.C. v. Heller case, that the "people" in the Second Amendment include "all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset" and to "bear arms" was used back in the day to "refer to the carrying of weapons outside of an organized militia.http://swvalaw.blogspot.com/2008/06/on-right-of-people-to-keep-and-bear.html |