By Mani Dabiri | Published September 12, 2019 | Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Tags: history, nationalsecurity |
My 9/11 Memory
Do you remember where you were? I was 22 years old, and I was at a small fitness center in the apartment complex we lived in. It was early, and I was the only one in there. I got on the treadmill, wearing earphones, listening to music, and absent-mindedly looking at a TV that was Read More
Read MoreTribute to a Courtroom Legend
“Some people walk the walk,” my wife said to me this morning. Well, the flags at the federal courthouse in the city of angels flew at half staff on Friday to honor U.S. District Judge Manuel Real, who passed away last week at 95. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he was the longest-serving active Read More
Read MoreFarewell to the Great Liberal Lion
Stephen Reinhardt, one of the most influential federal judges of the past half century, died suddenly yesterday. Here’s the news from the L.A. Times. We called him the liberal lion if we liked him and other names if we didn’t. He didn’t care. Like the late, great Harry Pregerson, he cared about which outcome was right Read More
Read MoreThe Greatest Generation, Indeed
Harry Pregerson passed away on Saturday, and if you haven’t heard of him, he’s worth learning about and remembering. If you’re like me, you never met him, but you knew who he was because you practiced law in Los Angeles (or California, for that matter, and a lot of other states, too). And if you’re like me, you’ll miss him Read More
Read MoreOnward And Upward
Happy new year to all from Think Defense, and we’ll be back next week. Here’s to a happy, healthy 2017. May the new year be full of the moments that matter to you.
Read MoreA Big Anniversary for the Bill of Rights
Thursday will mark 225 years to the day. On December 15, 1791, the Commonwealth of Virginia became the eleventh state to ratify the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. That meant that three-fourths of state legislatures had approved them, which meant the Bill of Rights was born. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a great Read More
Read MoreOur Great Living Poet
Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, and it was nice to see the news. You may not know it depending on your walk of life, but Dylan is one of the great American poets of the past hundred years, and he’s had a lot to say about law and justice, too. He’s apparently the first songwriter Read More
Read MoreThe Circle of Life
Earlier this month, the California Court of Appeal published an interesting DUI case that we may talk about next week. This week, I want to talk about something else. My wife and I welcomed a baby boy into the world on Saturday. He’s our first. He spent his first three days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, where Read More
Read MorePatient Privacy Gives Way for Good Cause
If you’re a doctor in California, here’s a healthy reminder that the Medical Board can subpoena your patients’ records for good cause, over their objection and yours. In a recent decision, the California Court of Appeal upheld an order that compelled a doctor to produce three of his patients’ records even though all three didn’t want Read More
Read MoreThey Risked Their Lives, Fortunes, and Honor, But the Rest is Up to Us
This Fourth of July weekend, there is new scholarship that suggests that the official transcription of the Declaration of Independence may bear a meaningful typographical error that does not appear on the original parchment or on other, early versions of the document. The potential error relates to the punctuation we call a period, and it appears as follows in that revered first sentence of the second paragraph (in Read More
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