Live from the Mayflower Hotel: An AO Holiday Special

On our last podcast of the year, Sarah takes you to the 2021 National Lawyers ...

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On our last podcast of the year, Sarah takes you to the 2021 National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., and introduces you to a dozen judges from all levels of the judiciary. You get a little law, singing, bourbon and bullets, and some important advice for law students. Did you expect David and Sarah to end the year any other way?

Show Notes:

–Give someone a Dispatch subscription this Christmas

–“We’ll Be Back” by Judge Elrod and Judge Eskridge

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  1. Tom (Inadvertent Obfuscation)

    OK, it's time for AO to raise $ by selling pictures of Justice Harlan with an excerpt from his Plessy dissent. Maybe "I deny that any legislative body or judicial tribunal may have regard to the race of citizens which the civil rights of those citizens are involved." Maybe extra for signed copies? (Signed by Sarah & David, that is.) I'm ready to hang Harlan's picture in a prominent place in my home. (And no, I'm not a lawyer, though I married a lawyer's daughter.) $25? $40 signed?

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    Victor Clairmont

    So before I listened and thought: “Maybe these judges will seem more normal than I think”.

    Then I listened and went, “Nope. These judges are aliens from outer space.”

    As for when Advisory Opinions comes back….

    I have a feeling the musical thing may be as bad as Aquaman. I am not anticipating the musical surprise.

    Thank you for the podcast.

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    Kelvin Tsang

    Maybe David French ready addressed this somewhere on The Dispatch or in another AO, but apparently David French is one of the credited translators responsible for translating The Witcher from Polish to English. ( Sorry, I just finished watching season 2, episode 8, and saw David credited during the credits.......)

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  4. Dominic

    The DH opinions are cause for serious concern. Of the thousands of MLB players over the past few decades we can count on our hands the number who could hit and pitch a fraction as well as Ohtani. When the pitcher comes to the plate its time for a new beer not excitement or strategy. Worst AO take ever.

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    1. Gabriel Salas

      This is wrong. Like a punter tackling a returner or a center dribbling a basketball, certain skills are fundamental to a sport even when the challenge is too big for the player.
      The DH is to baseball as the Globbetrotters are to basketball.

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    Michael Berkowitz

    Thanks for "We'll be back". That was great.

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    Jonathan Crymes

    Listening to judge’s opinions on the MLB DH reminds me of the phrase “bad facts make bad law.” Babe Ruth, possibly the greatest player in the history of the game, is not an argument for pitchers batting. Shohei Ohtani is remarkable because he’s the first player since Ruth 100 years ago to pitch and hit so well.

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    John Russell

    I watched the singing judges via the YouTube link in the show notes: it was a great way to humanize individuals whom most of us regard as impossibly remote---but did so in a way that did not sacrifice any of their dignity. Well done!

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    Garrett James

    Such a fun episode! So excited to finally join the dispatch as my Christmas present from my wife. I think I've listened to every episode of dispatch podcast (and every remnant episode before that) so its fun to finally get behind the paywall and to the comments

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    Bill Dyer (aka Beldar)

    Nolan Ryan's grand slam, off pitcher Don Sutton, on Ryan's first appearance in the Astrodome, as recounted by Judge Elrod (before whom I had the privilege of trying a jury case when she was on the bench of the 190th District Court of Harris County, Texas): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=969410493486206

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    Bill Dyer (aka Beldar)

    No discussion among lawyers of the Rules of Baseball should omit a reference to "The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule," to which I was introduced as a new member of the Texas Law Review in 1978, and which I hope is still being handed out to new law review members today. Link: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5322&context=penn_law_review

    Contra the Penn Law Review, by the way, I believe that title needs a hyphen — to wit, in "Common-Law" — because of its compound-adjectival use here. But I recognize that some others disagree. See generally https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6072&context=faculty_scholarship. Failing to use this hyphen is a common law review problem.

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