August2015

Aug. 31, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Begin with F. Scott Fitzgerald from The Crack-Up (1936): The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and...

Aug. 31, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — “We want an indictment. The cops don’t like it.” These words pierced the freezing Ferguson air as protesters marched in front of the Clayton County Courthouse in November of 2014....

Aug. 31, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Tennessee, living up to its moniker of “The Volunteer State,” has bounded down the path of naming and shaming parenting done “wrong.” It’s chosen to publish the Department of Children’s...

Aug. 31, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — When you are a patent licensing company and lose a patent case, the market reaction can be swift and punishing. A look at the after-hours chart for InterDigital, after the company...

Aug. 28, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — In his discussion of the Black Lives Matter policy agenda at the Washington Post, Radley Balko called it “practical, well-thought out, and in most cases, achievable.” And indeed, it includes a...

Aug. 28, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — America has created one of the fairest and most equitable institutions in the world. Each side is given equal resources and adequate counsel, the arbiters are neutral and closely scrutinized,...

Aug. 28, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The Lake Charles, Louisiana Police Department recently issued a public service announcement video on what a person should do when they are pulled over by the police. The video correctly...

Aug. 27, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Rachel Baker, by contemporary accounts, is a hero to the modern college student who should never feel threatened or hurt by allegedly harmful actions, words or deeds. She is the...

Aug. 27, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The 2007 murder trial of Kareem Johnson was a slam dunk for the prosecution. Sure, the motive that Johnson shot and killed Walter Smith outside of a North Philadelphia night...

Aug. 27, 2015 (Mimesis Law) —On Wednesday morning, WDBJ-TV viewers in Roanoke, Virginia witnessed the fatal shootings of reporter Alison Parker and camera operator Adam Ward during a live broadcast of the station’s morning show. Authorities...