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		<title>Lady Justice Is Only Blindfolded, Not Blind</title>
		<link>http://goldenstate.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/lady-justice-is-only-blindfolded-not-blind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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We’re at the end, until the Court issues its decision in the Hertz case, of our discussion of where fictitious corporations live and why it matters.
Our discussion presupposes that determining where a case is brought — in a state court or a federal court — can determine the outcome of the case.  That’s not how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1397&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Anthropomorphizing Corporations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we explained last time, the law pretends that corporations are persons.  When the law anthropomorphizes corporations like that, it has to decide where they live.  And, as explained last time, the Supreme Court is about to declare that corporations live in the place where their corporate headquarters are, even if those headquarters are in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1382&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Does a Corporation Live and Who Cares?</title>
		<link>http://goldenstate.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/where-does-a-corporation-live-and-who-cares/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hertz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need to explain what a corporation’s “principle place of business” is and then why you care. That will take awhile, so please bear with me, remembering always Ambrose Bierce’s definition of a corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
We’ll begin with a quick review. In the United States two court [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1372&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The History of Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I have your attention, I’m going to briefly tell you about the history of sex.  Not the real thing, but a book written some years ago by Michel Foucault. Actually, three books and he was only half-way through the project when he died.
Not that I’ve read the books.  Combined, they would be thicker [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1363&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Circumstantial Evidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Circumstantial evidence, said Thoreau, is when you find a trout in the milk.
Conclusion based on the evidence? Someone put the trout in the milk.
That chain of reasoning goes like this: Trout do not ordinarily inhabit milk so, if you find one swimming in the milk, a human must have put it there.
Likewise, circumstantial evidence is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1359&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Claude Levi-Strauss Dies</title>
		<link>http://goldenstate.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/1352/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Claude Levi-Strauss died last week at the tender age of 100, which means he was born during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, not that Levi-Strauss would have cared: He was a Frenchman, not an American and Roosevelt had as little impact on his life as Bridget Bardot has had on mine.
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		<title>2009 World Series</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not much of a sports fan now, but I was when I was a child and  I’ve hated the New York Yankees ever since they beat my Milwaukee Braves in the 1958 World Series.  Not that I hold a grudge, you understand.
I was a baseball player myself as a child.  I played first base [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1337&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Stuck&#8221; by Raymond Chandler</title>
		<link>http://goldenstate.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/stuck-by-raymond-chandler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raymond Chandler never blogged.  The art form of the blog — that wasn’t a snicker I just heard, was it? — hadn’t been invented yet.  But Chandler would never have been at a lost for something to write about, like I am sometimes.  In fact, he had some pretty good advice for writers, all of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1333&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Lord’s Prayer</title>
		<link>http://goldenstate.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-lord%e2%80%99s-prayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christians are taught to pray the Lord’s Prayer which begins, “Our Father, who art in heaven.”  In other words, Christians pray to an authority figure who lives somewhere else, a place no one can even visit in this life. The prayer signals that this authority figure is insecure and needs lots of praise.  So Christians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1328&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punditry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Punditry, the ability to render opinions whether founded or not, makes money for a select few who are willing to put their opinions before the public.  Mostly, no one ever checks up on the pundits after the fact.  (Except for William Safire, who checked up on himself once a year.) It seems to be an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=goldenstate.wordpress.com&blog=698707&post=1319&subd=goldenstate&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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