If I ever stop feeling those butterflies when I'm about to go into a jury trial, make an opening statement to a jury, a closing argument...

"Frustrated" is not an accurate description for my feelings about the length of time it has taken to have a CJA Voucher processed ...

Jeroen Hoekman , an eMarketing specialist, has started his new blog eMarketing reflections . The content, however, is not only relevant to e...

On July 4, 1939, Lou Gehrig reminded the world that even though he'd had a bad break, he had an awful lot to be thankful for. Watch a tr...

I was so glad that the Obama administration decided to take on health care. And I was extremely glad when he pushed for a public option. Tru...

Is this what this guy is all about? I have been feeling that he has been the one playing the race card all along, just as his wife has, and ...

If you can read Spanish and are interested in Puerto Rico's history, you will find the columns appearing at the new blog - Puerto Rico ...

Two musical giants who have given so much joy to so many for so long.

Today's decision by the First Circuit in Carlos Calderon-Garnier v. Hon. Anabelle Rodríguez , No. 06-2222 (1st Cir., Oct. 22, 2007) invo...

Meetings will be held at the Department of Justice next Tuesday, October 23, 2007 presided by the President's Task Force on Puerto Rico...

Perhaps getting a new look on Macondo Law will make me want to post more regularly. It's not as if I don't want to post, or have ru...

The story of Macondo turns 40 as Gabriel García Márquez turns 80 on March 6th. Our congratulations and thanks to him for such enjoyable tim...

In the photo on the left is attorney Lydia Lizarribar (probably discussing a case with a client) before starting her run at the World's...

Luis Balbino Arroyo Colón, all of age 16, earned his bachelors degree with a 4.0 grade point average from the University of Puerto Rico, wit...

U.S. News & World Report 's ranking of the top 10 law schools for 2007: Yale Law School Stanford Law School Harvard Law School Colum...

There is very little that goes on in this lovely island of Puerto Rico that is not somehow permeated with status politics. Today The White H...

My friend Carlos has passed on. He had long suffered from muscular dystrophy. Recently he had some breathing problems and had to be hospital...

It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of Rosa Parks. Her last name -it seemed to us- should have been Spark rather than Parks...

Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, said a record 6.9 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Hal...

The term is up, and I have let sufficient time pass to allow everyone else in the blogosphere to comment about it. To me the following were ...

During Oral Argument in United States v. Booker last October 4, 2004 ( transcript here ), Justice Breyer and Justice Scalia had the followi...

Law.com reports here that the director of the U.S. Marshals Service, Benigno Reyna , announced his resignation Friday , following strong c...

Justice delayed is justice denied, but there is always a modicum that can be achieved even 41 years later. Such is the case with the convict...

First Circuit Chief Judge Michael Boudin, at the request of District of Puerto Rico Chief Judge José Antonio Fusté, has designated Chief Jud...

Here is the Complaint in Marquez-Marín v. Gonzales , et al. No. 05-1619 -HL. Most of the stuff alleged therein has been vox populi for some...

I actually got to see H. S. "Bert" Garcia, our Texan U.S. Attorney in Puerto Rico, on the TV news last night when they showed a po...

Google celebrates Frank Lloyd Wright. (CTRL + left click on image) And I again daydream what if's about my architectural career t...

Today the First Circuit decided United States v. Villafañe-Jiménez , No. 03-1230 (1st Cir. June 7, 2005) dealing with an appeal from one of ...

This year's Puerto Rico Heineken JazzFest is dedicated to the great Brazilian singer Gal Costa. She will be performing Saturday night a...

I'm sitting here waiting for my dial-up connection to download Scansoft's PaperPort 10 Professional (a 258.4 MB download), one of se...

We blogged on the May 12, 2005 Memorandum and Order in Igartua de la Rosa v. United States in this post . The First Circuit has now publish...

No, I'm not kidding and neither is the mayor of Icononzo, Colombia. Fed up with people targeted by false rumors turning up dead or wrong...