I. THE ROOKER-FELDMAN DOCTRINE At its most basic, the Rooker-Feldman doctrine, named after the two cases from which it sprung,12 is the principle that lower federal courts do not have jurisdiction to review state court judgments.13 It is based on the congressional grant, in 28 U.S.C. § 1257,14 of appellate [*pg 645] jurisdiction over state [...]
Thursday’s post, “Tea Party” People: See Anything Wrong With This Email?, has attracted a LOT of traffic, but only one comment so far. In our opinion, however, that comment and our response to it merit more attention from our readers than it’s likely to get if it’s just appended to the original article. For [...]
A snapshot of an email received by GiN’s Norlyn and forwarded to me is included below for readers’ consideration. Norlyn’s included note… “Start here. Note the ‘From’, the speakers, and the ‘paid for by’. Does anyone else see a problem here? Anyone?” Linda and I have the same questions. What say YOU?
I don’t know, maybe it’s my inherent distrust of ALL politicians? Note the price of gas on the Exxon sign…$1.45. Wow, a lifetime ago.
“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, [...]
Kind of long, but boils down to “We WILL fight this…”
Funny, any verbal flubbery from Sarah Palin, or Michele Bachmann, hell ANY Republican or otherwise “non-liberal” is dissected and blown across the nation on all channels and every page. When it comes to Obama, not so much… They’...
In 2002 , we moved to Arizona. Two weeks later Arizona experienced the largest wildfire in its history. This year that fire damage was exceeded by the Wallow Fire. The question is Why. Having lived thru the Rodeo Chediski fire, and studying the issues, such as forest management, fire suppression, fire fighting, specifically with aircraft. [...]
Shelli is away this weekend, leaving me IN CHARGE here at the GiN joint. I recall the last time I was left in charge of something this important. My brother-in-law was getting married and asked me to take his extra set of car keys and hide his car in a parking garage near the reception [...]