Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Extension denial leaves Wyoming ranch owner a week...
Extension denial leaves Wyoming ranch owner a week to convince SCOTUS to hear corner crossing case
Extension denial leaves Wyoming ranch owner a week to convince SCOTUS to hear corner crossing case: Eshelman has until July 16 to state why the court should consider the corner-crossing conflict between public access to public land and private property rights.
Rancher owner?
Well, yes, he owns a ranch. But a working owner he is not. He's a pharmaceutical industry titan.
In a more just society, frankly, he wouldn't own the ranch at all. It'd be owned by those who actually derived a living from it.
Also of interest, Iron Bar Holdings, the petitioner, is represented by Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP of Denver, with Robert Reeves Anderson as counsel of record. The respondent is represented by a local Wyoming firm. I note this as there's no reason that the common attorney bullshit claim "I'm only doing my job" really ought to hold, for civil litigation. If you run into a Colorado attorney in Wyoming, ask them who they work for. if they work for this outfit, tell them to go home, we don't want them here.
For that matter, if you are a Colorado user of public lands, as they want to take part of what you own, there's no reason to accommodate them with a seat at the table, literally. "Want a cup of coffee sir? Drive to Texas. . . ."
At the trial court level, Iron Bar had been represented by Gregory Weisz, who is a Wyoming attorney. He's left private practice and is with the AG now. A lawyer with his firm took his place, but the case was well developed by then, and in the appeal stage, so they really had no choice.
So, what am I saying. Well, I'm saying that people who don't derive their income principally form a ranch, ought not to own it. And I'm saying that by representing carpetbaggers, you are a carpetbagger. The old lawyer bromides about serving the system are BS. Regular people, including other lawyers, don't have to excuse your choice of clients when you are taking on a plaintiff. It's not like being assigned a defendant.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Lex Anteinternet: Revisiting Rerum Novarum.
Revisiting Rerum Novarum.
I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution. In our own day, the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defence of human dignity, justice and labour.
In the light of the new Pope taking the name Leo XIV, let's revisit a major writing of Pope Leo XIII
Lex Anteinternet: Reginald Pole, the last actual Archbishop of Cante...
Lex Anteinternet: Reginald Pole, the last actual Archbishop of Cante... : Reginald Pole, the last actual Archbishop of Canterbury, in case ...

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Lex Anteinternet: Saturday, September 1, 1945. Truman addresses the... : The lyrics to This Land Is Your Land by Woody Guthrie were publis...
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Courthouses of the West: A Broken Profession : A Broken Profession This is a follow-up to something I posted here just the other day, takin...
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Lex Anteinternet: We are in big trouble. : We are in big trouble.