That's pretty ... wow.

Aims, it looks like the determination was made on a fairly narrow finding that the procedural requirements were not met. That part of the decision was unanimous. So we can't really blame just Scalia and Alito on that--even Sotomayor and Ginsburg concurred on that element (if not on the other parts of the decision).

I can see why the Supremes would be leery about granting certification to such an enormous and ill-defined class of plaintiffs, even if all their claims were later found to be justified (and I'm sure most of them were).

Consuela, in my experience with preschools, if a child is a behavior problem to the extent of hurting other kids, the parents are contacted and generally it's explained that if the child can't understand the rules or control herself with certain expectations, *that* child would be removed.

And in most public schools now, there's simply a no-tolerance policy when it comes to hitting or hurting other kids.

So yeah, really strange that his daughter is coming home injured and they're not doing anything about it.

Hey everyone!! Guess who's home?!

I am once again in possession of a basically unlimited internet plan and so will therefore be a permanent fixture here until I ship back out again!!

Welcome back, zuisa. How are your sealegs?

Josh Blackman has some analysis of the Wal-Mart opinions up already if you're interested in the legalease: [link]

Welcome back, zuisa. Is it good to be land-based again?

Or maybe it'd be more accurate to say the Supreme Court is very pro-corporate?

I truly do understand the 'vast' and 'ill-defined' arguments, but sending the entire case back to square one (more time, more money, breaking the spirits of the participants, etc) seems a huge blow in favor of the 'WeSaySo Corporation.'

Dylan was "assessed" for pre-k today. I'm pretty sure we passed...his block tower was 12 blocks high and he correctly identified all the trucks and cars in the truck & car puzzle. And the teacher said she liked his picture. This means my kid's not stupid and we can go to school, right?

It's weird to be back!!! But good. My last day was a big huge emotional roller coaster and I'm still having trouble processing! The whole first half was me being a weepy mess everywhere saying goodbye to people, and then the second half of the day I spent with my best friend from the ship, who was also leaving the same day, who I'd basically been a little bit in love with my entire contract, but I was 100% convinced that he was just not interested, and I'd never tried anything because we were such good friends, and...I guess let's just say that a couple things happened while we were out and now I'm confused? Hah. But that's another story for another day :P

It IS good to be home. But it's weird that everything is stationery.

This means my kid's not stupid and we can go to school, right?

Maybe he's so not stupid he doesn't need school. Can you test out the top?

A co-worker I barely know just sent me a chocolate bar and a thank-you-for-meeting-me note by interoffice mail. We spoke for five minutes. Tres weird.

does this coworker like you? like like you?