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• The Mail Is In the Bill

  Scrivener’s Error has a great idea:

  One of the major consequences of the forthcoming end of Saturday mail delivery will be a spike in late fees, interest charged, overdraft fees, and so on as consumers’ bills arrive on Monday (or Tuesday, all too often, after a three-day weekend) instead [...]

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• Jotwell Needs a Summer Student Edtior

  Jotwell, the online journal of reviews of recent faculty scholarship relating to the law, needs a Student Summer Editor. The student editor supports faculty editors both at UM and elsewhere, and has a role that is a blend of a substantive editor and a managing editor.

  The ideal candidate will [...]

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• Italian Election Corrective

  There have been astonishing volumes of nonsense written about the Italian election. If you believed the MSM, ranging from NPR on over, you would believe the world was about to end, the barbarians were at the gates. It seems the Italian electorate has acted so terribly irresponsibly, by failing to [...]

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• Awesome Chart

  Florida Rules Again! Slowest Voting at Eye On Miami.

  One chart says it all.

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• POW!

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  Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a blistering statement today concurring in the denial of cert in Calhoun v. US. While agreeing with the Supreme Court’s decision on procedural grounds, Sotomayor — with (only) Breyer joining in — tore into the prosecutor in the underlying case for making an “argument[] calculated [...]

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• Down Again

  Law school faculty email is down … and so is the UM Law web site. They did a big server move Saturday night, and all was supposed to be well by Sunday.

  But it isn’t.

  Since most law school workstations are set up to rely heavily on the network, I hear [...]

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• Innocence Project Handbook for Law Students

  Congratulations to colleague Sarah A. Mourer who has just published her first book, Working in Innocence Programs: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Innocence Work But Were Afraid To Ask.

  Here’s part of the synopsis:

  This book is written for anyone interested in the innocence cause. The problem of [...]

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• Guide to Coral Gables Candidates Forums

  …or is that Fora? Anyway, based on emails and comments to my earlier posting on the elections, here’s what I think I know about the schedule for candidate debates for the 2013 Coral Gables Commission and Mayoralty elections:

  Ponce Business Association. To be held [...]

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• Estate Planning for Your Digital Afterlife

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  Over the weekend I attended parts of a great symposium put on by the Miami Law Review on social media and the law.

  The Law Review had drafted me to moderate a panel on “Will You Have a Digital Afterlife?” It was an interesting experience: the estate planning/probate version [...]

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• Loomio — Enabling Group Decision-Making

  Micah L. Sifry, a canny observer of social organizing and the internet, writes a very positive article about Loomio in Can Social Software Change the World? Loomio Just Might.

  A taste:

  At its heart, Loomio does just two things. First, it makes it easy for anyone in a Loomio group [...]

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