Expert Juries

On Independence Day, 1873, Mark Twain quipped, “We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read.” It’s now 2018, and the problem is only worse.  Still we haveContinueContinue reading “Expert Juries”

Dog Bites, Dangerous Breeds, Assumption of Risk

One of my friends on Facebook was upset by a story (1) about a disabled man’s pit bull being taken away from him because his possession of a pit bull was against a city ordinance. My friend posted the following in reaction to the article: What the hell is wrong with people? I was seriouslyContinueContinue reading “Dog Bites, Dangerous Breeds, Assumption of Risk”