The city agreed on Monday to pay nearly $1 million to participants in the monthly Critical Mass bicycle rides who claimed they had been wrongly detained and arrested by police officers.

What is Long Island?

Pleasant little op-ed about limiting tax-deductions for charitable bequests. This is the best part:
"Ray D. Madoff, a professor at Boston College Law School, is writing a book on immortality and the law."

"To provide for the retrocession of the District of Columbia to the State of Maryland" Return most of DC to MD.

Laurence Tribe owns Philip Johnson's 1943 GSD senior thesis, a single family house in Cambridge

us constitution with relevant case law. note: do not trust the internet

The city of Boston may convey to the BRA, for urban renewal, [the parcel bounded by] Sterling, Marble, Warwick and Westminster streets and commonly known as Madison park. Approved August 22, 1966.

Great news, but which candidates does it help/hurt? [Romney/Giuliani, probably]

What, Microsoft is still around?

Grow poppies for fun and paranoia

"the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more is entitled to forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him of that illumination."

Kenneth Jackson is part of the 5BBC lawsuit against the new NYPD parade rules!

93 US Attorneys serve in the 94 US District Courts (Guam & the N. Marianas share).

yes

Revolutionary puritan constitution, written in 1st-person plural. Biennial parliamentary elections, no drafts, no compulsary religion, equal protection.

"Victor H. 'Vic' Kramer, 93, an antitrust attorney who turned his back on a notable career with a Washington law firm to devote himself to public interest law and education"

"As a result of the chemicals going [directly] into Diaz's arms [rather than a vein], he had an 12-inch chemical burn on his right arm and an 11-inch chemical burn on his left arm"

no-man's land (or no-European's land, more strictly). Still, useful concept.

The ABA wants a moratorium

"Tthe most dangerous place was Custer Cty. A total of 13 persons were tried for sedition in Miles City, the county seat" (my grandfather was born there). [via slavin_fpo]

John Brown prepares for a total overthrow of the union.

"the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion"

Whales evolved their large brains 30 million years ago--25 million years before humans appeared on the scene and 29 million years before the present brain size of humans developed.