Somewhat OT: The SCOTUS decision yesterday was one of the most significant regulatory cases in the last several years. While narrowly written, the implications are that if the regulatory agencies do not begin to act with more caution, they will need a whole lot more lawyers.
Years ago, in one of my former lives, I edited law books. Among the books I worked on was one on trial practice. The author had written a chapter on overdoing it in front of the jury. I suggested he use this epigram of Marital’s as an intro:
My suit has nothing to do with assault, or battery, or poisoning, but is about three she-goats, which, I complain, have been stolen by my neighbour. This the judge desires to have proved to him; but you, with storms of words and extravagant gestures, go on and on about the Battle of Cannae, the Mithridatic war, and the perjuries of the insensate Carthaginians, the Sullae, the Marii, and the Mucii. Postumus, what about my three she-goats?
“In America there are no nobles or men of letters, and the people is apt to mistrust the wealthy; lawyers consequently form the highest political class, and the most cultivated circle of society. They have therefore nothing to gain by innovation, which adds a conservative interest to their natural taste for public order. If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the rich, who are united together by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar.”
A high school buddy of mine who was a lawyer working for the city of San Diego was complaining to me 20 years ago of layoffs and pay reductions. My guess is that the market took care of California.
I heard a joke many years ago: California has the most lawyers of any other state, while New Jersey has the most toxic waste sites. Why is that? New Jersey got first pick.
Land of Lincoln
What’s wrong with California?
Somewhat OT: The SCOTUS decision yesterday was one of the most significant regulatory cases in the last several years. While narrowly written, the implications are that if the regulatory agencies do not begin to act with more caution, they will need a whole lot more lawyers.
Mr. Schuler, sir, I read that chart as Illinois has 14 lawyers per 10,000. Maybe it just feels like more.
Wouldn’t that be 1.4 per 1000? I.e., nearly one and one-half-assed lawyers per 1000? (Charts and graphs have never been my strong suit.)
Speaking of lawyers…
Years ago, in one of my former lives, I edited law books. Among the books I worked on was one on trial practice. The author had written a chapter on overdoing it in front of the jury. I suggested he use this epigram of Marital’s as an intro:
He liked it and used it.
Tocqueville:
“In America there are no nobles or men of letters, and the people is apt to mistrust the wealthy; lawyers consequently form the highest political class, and the most cultivated circle of society. They have therefore nothing to gain by innovation, which adds a conservative interest to their natural taste for public order. If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the rich, who are united together by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar.”
This does remind one of the toxic waste joke.
Steve
Yeah, you’re right. Miscalculation.
A high school buddy of mine who was a lawyer working for the city of San Diego was complaining to me 20 years ago of layoffs and pay reductions. My guess is that the market took care of California.
You’re still reading the Connecticut line, Dave.
I heard a joke many years ago: California has the most lawyers of any other state, while New Jersey has the most toxic waste sites. Why is that? New Jersey got first pick.