Christian Mott

Fun fact: Sometimes a lawyer's job is to tell the client things they don't want to hear, to question a client's representations if they appear inconsistent with other evidence, and to refuse to make arguments or take positions that they know to be frivolous.

So as far as we know right now, the USMNT was the third best team in the World Cup.

The Trojans' Odyssey is called the Aeneid. Christopher Nolan movie version when?

Always a good sign when your lease contract includes a natural history of mold: "Molds are naturally occurring microscopic organisms which reproduce by spores and have existed practically from the beginning of time...."

The government providing us information infringes on our God-given right to harm ourselves without knowing it.

So as far as we know right now, the USMNT was the third best team in the World Cup.

Where can we donate to an industrial-scale vetting operation?

The ICC isn't the only body that can prosecute war crimes. US federal criminal law also prohibits them.

Soccers teams should hire someone to teach advocacy classes. Oral argument seems to be a very big part of players' in-game responsibilities.

Seeing a lot of heated disagreement about the contest to determine who gets to lose to Spain.

We'd be better off banning social media for people over 16.

I think Sotomayor's dissent is correct that the answer to this question, based on the majority's reasoning, is likely no. Hard to see how removal restrictions on inferior officers (including ALJs) could be compatible with Slaughter's view of the presidency. Hope I'm wrong, though.

Time to see if Austria and Algeria even bother trying to score, since a draw gives each country their best possible outcome.

Learned something new about the offsides rule. I don't like it. Seems like there should be room for refs to disregard marginal offsides when the offensive player clearly gained no advantage from it. (E.g., this Iran goal, the Colombia goal that was just disallowed.)

My grandfather made the desk I use in MIT's Hobby Shop when he was a professor there. (It's probably from the late 70s or 80s, since he died in 1992).

Constant internecine warfare seems more likely to kill the party than some far left candidates winning nominations in far left districts. Maybe talk about the bad things your actual opponents are doing? There are almost infinite options.

Too many posts lamenting Scotland's performance so far; too few celebrating Haiti's

It could be good for USMNT if England finishes second in their group. (If Spain wins their group and both win in the round of 32, England would then play Spain. Winner would play USMNT in quarters, if they make it. Somehow, England seems capable of both beating Spain and losing to USMNT.)

For a discussion of how many damages remedies exist under Spending Clause statutes, see this interesting student note. (Discussing the effect of a prior SCOTUS decision cutting back on remedies for suits under such statutes.)

As the article notes, to receive expanded access, the patient must have a "serious or immediately life-threatening disease or condition." A serious condition is one that "has substantial impact on day-to-day functioning." If that is true of the president, the public should have a right to know.

The president has been known to humiliate people in the past. One wonders if he is intentionally humiliating Netanyahu. (Of course, he is simultaneously humiliating himself, so maybe it is not intentional.)

And now all my neighbors try to scare my dog to death

Fortunately, you too can become a trillionaire if you just work for 50 years full time at a job that pays $10 million per hour.

My most strongly held uninformed soccer opinion is that offsides should be based on foot position rather than the part of the body closest to the goal.

I have no specific knowledge of Anthropic, but this form of inference is not generally valid. Again and again, established incumbents in new and growing areas have requested regulations, since they have the resources to pay compliance costs while may potential market entrants do not.

Does anyone who has calculated the Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment from its components know what is going on with November 1963?

I remember when my Boston Celtics won game 1 on the road in the 2022 NBA finals.

PACER is an insecure and illegally expensive disaster that’s been hacked numerous times. We and others have been working on the new bill below to finally fix it. This will make it free and modern. Let’s go!

I'm puzzled about how to interpret reports like this one. Is it just that the AI companies haven't quite worked out the right way to price their product yet? Or that the costs of the computational resources needed to replace a human worker are actually higher than a salary?

I know there are many more important things going on in the world, but I am shaken by the news that my favorite restaurant, Clover Food Lab, is closing down ☹️