Two of my favorite law profs provide the following advice to improve the Supreme Court:
Take away the Justices’ law clerks

Force them to decide common-law cases

Bring back circuit riding

Eliminate signed opinions

Their article is here.

Check out the picture at the top of the Utah Democrats

Today Writely.com announced that it had been purchased by Google. This means that Google has an online word processor and soon Yahoo will have an online word processor. This increase in online Office products means that Microsoft’s new Office products are going to have to be good, especially since Open Office is a pretty decent application suite (and it is free).

Check out these screenshots of the new Microsoft Office. If nothing else, the new Office will be a good looking set of programs.

After four days of the Paris-Nice, Landis is still leading. But it will be tough for him to win since his team isn’t very strong. Here’s the official website. And here’s what wikipedia has to say about it.

Floyd Landis won the Tour of California last month and now he is leading Paris-Nice. I haven’t paid any attention to the Spring Classic in Cycling, but it’s nice to see a good guy like Floyd Landis leading one of the most prestigous bike races there is.

From GMU’s website:

By an 8-0 margin, the Supreme Court decided that Congress can give the military a statutory right to recruit prospective lawyers at law schools whose universities receive federal aid, grants or contracts. Rumsfeld v. FAIR, No. 04-1152.

The Court’s decision closely follows the amicus brief filed by members of the George Mason law school community — the only members of the national community of law schools to brief the case in behalf of the armed services. Many amicus briefs were filed on the losing side (including briefs in behalf of the professors at Yale University, Harvard University, Columbia University, New York University, the University of Chicago, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania), arguing that the Solomon Amendment’s requirement of equal access for military recruiters was unconstitutional under the First Amendment.

The George Mason brief was signed by Dean Daniel Polsby and Professors Nelson Lund and Joseph Zengerle in behalf of six other George Mason professors, seven George Mason law students, and some eighty professors and students from other law schools. Lead counsel on the George Mason brief was Will Consovoy,

Panning the Gold.