• $15M to family of Oklahoma driver who flipped his car when taking a 30 mph curve at 67 mph and passing a car in a no-pass zone. [Point of Law]
• “Jungle Democracy’s appeal is as unintelligible as its complaint and also states no grounds for relief.” [Jungle Democracy v. USA (10th Cir.) (McConnell, J.) via Bashman]
• Reform coming to New York justice courts (POL Sep. 25). [NYT]
• Judge Boggs gets it right at Federalist Society conference: judicial independence is a means, not an end. [Above the Law]
• Speaking of the Federalist Society, Justice Alito gave an entertaining speech. [C-SPAN (Real Media)]
• “Among those swept up under [Georgia’s] definition of sex offender are a … mother of five who was convicted of being a party to a crime of statutory rape because, her indictment alleged, she did not do enough to stop her 15-year-old daughter’s sexual activity.” [WaPo via Tabarrok]
• Signs of a lack of remorse: “In a follow-up e-mail, [Wesley] Snipes directed me to a Web site that praised him for not paying income taxes under the theory that careful reading of the tax codes suggests that only foreign-based income is taxed.” [Orlando Sentinel via TaxProf Blog via Lat; see also ancient Usenet post—I still haven’t fully learned not to argue with idiots]
• Betcha you didn’t know that using the n-word was morally equivalent to killing two people and seeking to profit from it, but if you cut Michael Richards more slack than OJ Simpson, LA Times columnist thinks it’s because you’re racist. [Kaplan @ LA Times]

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