Americans like to celebrate streaks. But there was a streak that should not be emulated by anyone. Justice Thomas has gone 5 years without asking a single question from the bench of the United States Supreme Court according to news reports. In my prior post, I wrote about a great Supreme Court Justice. A man…
Continue readingGreat judges can serve for many years and affect lives decades after they are gone. Courageous jurists with vision and intellectual curiosity have been at the forefront of our nation’s progress and our democracy’s evolution. At a critical time in our nation’s history, attorney Thurgood Marshall spoke for those with no voice, the disenfranchised and…
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While I can appreciate the feeling of freedom biking without a helmet, the statistics suggest that fatal bike crashes can be reduced if all bikers wore helmets or universal motorcycle helmet laws were in place. A national law that if you are riding a motorcycle you must wear a helmet could potentially save hundreds of…
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We are “down wind” from a remarkable place. Something that every client, defense counsel, insurance adjuster and judge agreed upon when they came to the Landau Law Shop in Herndon, Virginia, was that the bakery down the block gave out free samples of “darned good bread.” So it is with sadness that I recount that…
Continue readingWhen I first started practicing law in the Commonwealth of Virginia, lawyers on both sides of the case got along and did not intentionally antagonize each other. Pleadings and defenses were based upon provable facts and reason. Things have changed. Many defense firms routinely engage in “scorched earth” tactics, waste whole forests of unnecessary paper…
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