When the cat's away...

Poor David,

He turns over his storied blog to a friend, former defense attorney/star and law professor extraordinaire and what happens?  The prof. blogs about arbitration clauses while the Eleventh Circuit publishes a case that is as old as the "internets," as proved by a scene from War Games - student accessing school grading system to change grades.

Sadly, these students - FAMU undergrads - ended up getting caught and going to prison.  Of course, it may not have just been the grade changes that got them there:

"Using the surreptitiously obtained usernames and passwords, the conspirators accessed FAMU’s grading system, changed grades, added credits for courses which had been failed or not taken, and changed the residencies of several non-resident students to qualify them for in-state tuition. The changes were made via the Internet from the conspirators’ home computers, campus computers at FAMU and Florida State University, and from several wireless laptops."

Perhaps a bit over the line, but comeon...is this case not ready made for comment by Bascuas?  Rick, you can do a hell of a good job with United States v. Barrington, now hit one out of the park!

In other news - Europe is considering a ban on short selling.  What the heck are Republican's gonna do if this comes to America?  They won't be able to use best efforts to cause the financial markets to crash so that Obama looks bad, they profit by betting against the market and they pay almost zero in taxes!  End times.