Friday Links
After last week’s more wholesome legal themed comic book cover, today we return to something a bit more hard-boiled: Justice #6, published way, way back in 1948. Note the actions of the crestfallen mother as she hears the judge sentence her son to the electric chair. The defendant’s sister, however, has little sympathy. A cynical news reporter asks “When will these craven criminals ever learn that at the end of the trail of crime nothing is waiting but heartbreak – and tears!” (Why that newshound is lurking near the judge’s bench rather than the spectator’s gallery is unknown). Curiously, there do not appear to be any actual lawyers in this courtroom, or at least none we can see. One thing is for certain: there is a whole lot dialogue on this cover.
As promised, Steve McConnell of the Drug and Device Law blog has posted his magnus opus on Star Wars. (Don’t expect too much about pharmaceutical litigation in that post.). We encourage you to read it. Of note, Steve properly reserves some disdain for the recent prequels, as any reasonable person should.
Speaking of which, in last week’s edition of “Friday Links,” we directed you to our 2011 April Fool’s Day post, “Star Wars Prequels Unreasonably Dangerous and Defective, South Carolina Federal Court Finds,” suggesting that it was “the one post this site [had] dedicated to that series of films.” But guess what? That’s not entirely true. Nerds that we are, we’ve referenced Star Wars before! We searched our archive and discovered this June 2010 post in which we quoted a number of courts who referenced the Star Wars trilogy. You know you want to know which judges referenced the trilogy.
Friend of the blog Jay Hornack a/k/a Panic Street Lawyer has an interesting blog post on U2’s recent Pittsburgh concert and the 14th Amendment. Somehow, he manages to connect those seemingly unrelated things together with his mighty prose. Check it out. We have not yet had the opportunity to write about U2, but earlier this year, we did do a pretty thorough post listing songs about lawyers and judges.
The State offers this account of yesterday’s memorial service for U.S. District Court Judge Matthew J. Perry, Jr., who passed away last week at 89.
This week, we welcome two brand new bloggers to Abnormal Use! Starting this week, be on the lookout for posts from our two new associate contributors, Steve Buckingham and Childs Cantey Thrahser. Steve (whose first post ran earlier this week) serves on our Business and Commercial Law Team in our Greenville office, while Childs, also on our B&C team, works out of our brand new Columbia office. We’d also like to take this opportunity to thank retiring blogger Laura Simons, an associate in our Greenville office, for her 18 months of service on the blog. She’s definitely earned a break after being with us since our initial founding in January of 2010, and we wish her a happy retirement from this fateful enterprise.
South Carolina Lawyers Weekly reports on Mills Gallivan, our boss, being appointed to the South Carolina Bar Dispute Resolution Section. Note: You can now follow Mills on Twitter at @MillsGallivan.
