Law Friday

Talking the Talk - Arguendo
“For argument’s sake” or “assuming what you’re saying is right, you’re still a moron.” Arguendo is a close cousin of reductio ad absurdem, an Aristotelian favorite, which means “reduced to the absurd” or “here’s how stupid your statement is.” For example, you might say the following: “Assuming, arguendo, that my headlight was indeed broken, he should not be able to recover $10,000 for running a stop sign at 90 mph.”

Hearsay

Any Facebook folks out there? Hasbro and Mattel are trying to put the kibosh on Srabulous, the Scrabble rip-off over on Facebook. (That’s about the only thing I ever do with my stupid Facebook account.)

Then there’s this video...fabulous! Just fabulous! (It’s not news, but Ms. Clinton is a lawyer, so it sorta fits here.)

And finally, a story for my brother, who is interested in making a return to the gaming industry after graduation: Microsoft’s getting sued over the Xbox Live outages that took place over the holiday season, forcing folks to—*shudder*—spend time with their families.

You be the Judge - Hold onto that spleen!
In Torts, we study a lot of medical cases, especially ones where the doctors are doing things the patients might not like. Here’s an interesting dilemma for you: A doctor removes a patient’s spleen for health reasons. So far, so good. But later, after the patient returns home, he occasionally ponders the fate of his spleen: Where did it end up? Did it go into the trash? Did the hospital flush it down the toilet? What does one do with an old spleen? As it turns out, the doctor used the spleen to develop a very profitable cell line. So the patient sues him, because he feels he deserves some money for his genetic material. Who wins?

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