Etc.

Police decided to do a mercy killing on a 15-year-old with Asperger syndrome.
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Don't worry, the economy is doing great for those in the top 1 percent.

Here is a handy-dandy graph:


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Mitt has a new, improved "Southern Strategy": Get in line or else.

"Or else" means Obama wins. Naturally there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two candidates, but some on the religious right believe there is.
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Murder victim Karen Harkness feared her fiance's ex-wife Dana Chandler, according to testimony today at Chandler's trial:

When Karen Harkness came to work as a sales manager at Capitol Plaza Hotel one day, she was shaking and had been crying, a co-worker testified Tuesday.

Harkness was upset because due to Dana L. Chandler, the ex-wife of boyfriend Mike Sisco, witness Dena Soden testified.

“She told me the woman was a psycho,” Soden testified. Soden, sales director, and Kim McPherson, sales manager at Capitol Plaza, testified Harkness feared Chandler.

Chandler's sister took the stand today:


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The other day I wrote that the Roy Gomm E.S. mandatory uniform lawsuit was appealed to the ninth circuit. Documents are available for download there as well. Some info:

Court of Appeals Docket #: 12-15403 Docketed: 02/28/2012
Nature of Suit: 3440 Other Civil Rights
Mary Frudden, et al v. Kayann Pilling, et al
Appeal From: U.S. District Court for Nevada, Reno
Fee Status: Paid
Case Type Information:
1) civil
2) private
3) null
Originating Court Information:
District: 0978-3 : 3:11-cv-00474-RCJ-VPC
Court Reporter: Margaret Ellen Griener, Official Court Reporter
Trial Judge: Robert Clive Jones, Chief District Judge
Date Filed: 07/06/2011
Date Order/Judgment: Date Order/Judgment EOD: Date NOA Filed: Date Rec'd COA:
01/31/2012 01/31/2012 02/27/2012 02/28/2012
02/28/2012 1 DOCKETED CAUSE AND ENTERED APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL. SEND MQ: Yes. The schedule is set as follows: Mediation Questionnaire due on 03/06/2012. Transcript ordered by 03/28/2012. Transcript due 04/27/2012. Appellants Jon E. Frudden and Mary Frudden opening brief due 06/06/2012. Appellees Debra Biersdorff, Health Morrison, Kayann Pilling, Lynn Rauh, Roy Gomm Uniform Committee and Washoe County School District answering brief due 07/06/2012. Appellant's optional reply brief is due 14 days after service of the answering brief. [8083206] (GR)
02/29/2012 2 Filed (ECF) notice of appearance of Eugene Volokh for Appellants Jon E. Frudden and Mary Frudden. Date of service: 02/29/1968. [8085382] (EV)
02/29/2012 3 Added attorney Eugene Volokh for Mary Frudden Jon E. Frudden, in case 12-15403. [8085491] (EL)
03/03/2012 4 Filed (ECF) Appellants Jon E. Frudden and Mary Frudden Mediation Questionnaire. Date of service: 03/03/2012. [8089216] (EV)

Note near the bottom of this document (sorry about the formatting). Eugene Volokh is an attorney, a law professor, and a well-known and widely read blogger. I haven't read his "Volokh Conspiracy" in ages. He may have written about this case or he may not have.

I thought I'd pass this along.
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Nevada education is absolutely doomed, especially when the law was changed to allow the governor instead of the state board of education to appoint the state superintendent. James Guthrie is a Bush hack and has absolutely NO K-12 teaching experience whatsoever.

Apparently Guthrie aspires to be the Arne Duncan of Nevada.
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Rick Santorum was projected to be the winner of the Alabama and Mississippi primaries. Newt was second, and Mitt was third.

Meanwhile, Mitt won Hawaii.

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