Getting Stuck With The Tab For G20 Security: a Modest Proposal.

Well, we all got of taste of what it might be like when the G20 meets in Pittsburgh next month. There was a motivational seminar at the Mellon Arena today and the seminar attendees (probably over 20,000 of them) attacked downtown Pittsburgh from every direction. It was a gridlock in a town that doesn’t have too many. Then they swamped all of the eateries at lunch time (at least those near the Arena). Who knows what other mischief they performed just by being here?

A Second Life? What Would You Do?

But if there is any good news that came from this tragedy, it is that many others did not die. All of the wounded are expected to recover. Others who were in that dark room when the shooting began were spared by fate. And there were many others who heard the shots and experienced various degrees of awareness that their time on earth might come to an abrupt end.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Attorney General May Preemptively Challenge Ordinances That Violate State Agricultural Law.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle August 9, 2009 Law of the Land Blog.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog:CAN-SPAM Statute Does Not Create Private Cause of Action for Spam Recipients, 9th Circuit Says.

Posted by Cliff Tuttle August 8, 2009 Jurist

Rivers Casino Opens Sunday. You Don’t Have To Go There. Ever.

Local news broadcasters are providing a great deal of free advertising to the grand opening of the Rivers Casino. The City, County and State can’t wait to start receiving their share of the take. The excitement is growing by the minute. The financial success of this enterprise is guaranteed whether or not you and I participate. So let’s not.

The Anonymous Lawyer is Having a Field Day with Jones Day and Other Biglaw Interoffice Literature.

By the way, if you are a managing partner thinking about writing a memo to the yearlings, read a few Anonymous Lawyer posts. It may protect your memo from receiving top billing tomorrow in Above the Law, followed by immortality in Anonymous Lawyer.

LA Fitness Shootings

It has been only a few months since three Pittsburgh Police officers were gunned down while responding to a domestic dispute call. And this event took place not far from the site of some of the Baumhammer multiple killings, still fresh in the memory of Pittsburghers.

Pittsburgh Legal Newslog: Congratulations to Judge Marmo

Posted by Cliff Tuttle Michael Marmo, an Allegheny County lawyer who has served on the Board of Viewers for several years, has been appointed a judge of the Court of Common Pleas by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. According to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Judge Marmo will begin to serve on September 1. […]

A Short Sermon from the Foothills of the Beer Summit.

No matter what the situation, hold your temper when in the presence of a police officer. Speak politely and quietly. Do not become indignant, even if the officer’s conduct is outrageous. Do not attempt to take control of the situation in any way.

He Said, She Said.

I am not the only writer who is having problems accommodating the rapid change in the role of the sexes. In my law school graduating class of 1973 (deep in the last century) there were only a handful of women. Today, law school classes everywhere are about equally divided. The profession as a whole has already reflected that change. Exactly half of the judges in Philadelphia are members of the fair sex. (Are we still allowed to say that?)

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