Law School Discussion

I would recommend contacting the licensing board for South Carolina.

NSL is moving to a new building this fall.  The new building doubles our current space and they plan to increase the number of 1L students admitted next year.  I would say your chances are pretty good.

PTLaw 

Although our mayor was not born in the south, he actually is from VERY southern stock.  That is one of the reasons why he "landed" in Nashville.

PT

Take a look at some of the family histories of Tennessee's leading family's.


Nashville's mayor isn't exactly Ol' South.

And look at the Cooper family history. Descended from carpet baggers.

Quote from: Slyone on January 12, 2005, 11:33:09 AM

Well, I guess you can stay.....

Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

While it bothers you that Fort Negley is being preserved (Jack Kershaw agrees with you), I realize that health care and historic preservation projects are two separate issues.

Having just recovered from a serious illness that required my utilizing the health care system a great deal, I am also concerned that certain segments of our society are consistently denied adequate health care coverage.  Were it not for the health coverage offered through my employer, I more than likely would not have received treatment in time to save my life.

I am a supporter (with money, not just my mouth) of the Tennessee Justice Center and hold Gordon Bonnyman in high esteem.  However, health care costs have to be brought under control.  Health care in Tennessee is not a case of the "tail wagging the dog", its the "hairs of the tail wagging the dog". 

PTLaw

The Tennessean has a nice article about people trying to preserve a fort built in 1862 and isn't wonderful to save the past. At the same time, we're looking at adding taxes and dropping 430,000 people from public health insurance.

Sorry, but I care a lot more about health care for the needy than saving a pile of rocks.

Yes, I understand that the money to save the fort isn't government money, but it still bothers me that people are going without healthcare while there seems to be money floating around for saving an old fort.

The Court has had as many as ten justices (including the Chief Justice).  Its current membership was set at nine in 1869.

FDR got mad because The Court kept voting against his New Deal legislation, so he hatched a scheme to add six more justices to The Court in the hopes of engineering a majority in his favor.  His plan didn't work.  I think he got the last laugh, since whenever he got the opportunity, he picked the youngest men he could find to appoint to The Court.  William Douglas was his last appointee to "retire" in 1975.  The sad thing about Justice Douglas is that due to his health, his mental capacity had diminished a great deal prior to his retirement.   He was a brilliant legal scholar when he was at the top of his game.

Yeah, I admit it.  I am way too interested in Court trivia.  Did you know that there was a justice who went back to law school for a refresher course after his appointment?  He was afraid that he did not know enough law to serve on The Court.

ptlaw

The U.S. Supreme Court has nine members. They used to be called "The Nine Old Men" until Justice O'Connor joined the court. I guess now they are the "Seven Old Men and Two Ladies".

ptlaw