i should be asleep. but with this nasty case of poison ivy (backs of knees, face, neck, arms and sides) and a scrip for prednisone, i finally fell asleep around 2:00 this morning and then woke up at 6:00. if this keeps up for the full course of the steroid, this house is going to be both spotless and remodelled by the end of next week. muah!

it seems i may have been prematurely thrilled about the otc availability of plan b (more on that by sappho), at least if this woman’s experience is anything to go on. i’d read similar accounts prior to the FDA’s approval, so it was probably naive of me expect anything to change that quickly.

glenn greenwald’s overview of the procedural history behind judge taylor’s ruling on the constitutionality of the NSA surveillance program should be required reading for anyone taking civpro this fall (believe me, taken with the comments in orin kerr’s post on the topic by alkali, john herbison and the text of FRCP 56 with some analysis, it’s a mini-course on the do’s and don’ts of summary judgment).

civpro is in the air, it seems — the defendants in the tobacco industry RICO suit are using FRCP 65 to argue that judge kessler’s injunctions are overly vague.

if discussions of those sorts of legal maneuvering were part of first year civpro, the class would make a lot more sense.