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• 107° in the Shade

  When I got into the car this afternoon around 2pm, the outdoor temperature register, which I think monitors the temperature under the car, said 107° (41.7° Celsius).

  I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen it above 100 before. It went down to about 95 after we drove around a bit.

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• Gloomdogglers

  Adam Winkler, The Roberts Court is Born:

  Roberts may have voted to save healthcare because he wants to preserve the Court’s capital to take on other big issues heading toward the Court. Legal experts predict the Roberts Court will invalidate a key provision of one of the most important laws [...]

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• Inteviewed by NBC 6

  I may be on the local news NBC 6 at 5 and at 6 tonight as I was just interviewed by Ari Odzer about the Supreme Court’s decision this morning on the Affordable Care Act.

  We did a standup outside my house. It was very hot, and if [...]

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• When Is a Tax Not a Tax?

  The Supreme Court has upheld the very large majority of the health care bill. In particular, it upheld the individual mandate 5-4 (with Roberts, without Kennedy) on the grounds that it is a tax — having rejected it as a valid application of the Commerce Clause.

  But for purposes of [...]

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• It’s SCOTUSBlog’s Health Care Moment

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  Like much of the US legal world, I’ll be following the liveblog at SCOTUSBlog this morning to see what the Supreme Court does to representative government. SCOTUSBlog says they spent $25,000 just beefing it up to handle the slashdotting they expect to get around 10am today.

  Fortunately, there’s a [...]

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• Good Companies

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  At some point during the past Spring semester I made a snarky comment during a class about one of the corporate parties in a case or a hypo, and a student challenged me to name a corporation I liked. Which seemed like a fair demand — especially as it took [...]

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• Local Food Note Update

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  In response to yesterday’s Local Food Note I had a chirpy email from a person who asked to be identified only as “a Shake Shack representative” saying that the Shake Shack opening near the UM campus is planned for “mid-to-late July.”

  (Sadly, no promotional considerations were offered [...]

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• Local Food Note

  Some time ago I blogged about the death of the Smoke’t near the UM campus which was to make way for a Shake Shack. I drove by the other day, and it didn’t look like a lot was going on there. Online, however, I learn that Shake Shake [...]

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• UM Law Employment Numbers Are Much Better than In Erroneous ABA Report

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  Last year’s class’s employment numbers for the University of Miami School of Law are not wonderful, but they’re not hideous either. They are much better than reported by the ABA and echoed all over the internet today.

  I have no idea if the error was in UM’s reporting or the ABA’s [...]

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• U Miami Has Its Own App

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  Maybe everyone else knew, but I was surprised to learn that the University of Miami has its own Android/IPhone app.

  Of course it’s a bloated 10MB monster, but even so. Rumor has it you can use it to check out books from the library, but I haven’t figured out [...]

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