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On the morning of July 18, 2014, Dan Markel pulled into his garage in the upscale Betton Hills neighborhood of Tallahassee, where he was a law professor at Florida State University. Seconds later, the 41-year-old father of two was shot twice in the head. Taken to the hospital, he was pronounced dead less than 12 hours later. Dan Markel was a friend of mine. We worked together as editors of the Harvard Crimson in the 1990s, and we reconnected in the early 2000s as the founders of two prominent legal blogs, PrawfsBlawg for him and Above the Law for me.

Welcome to Original Jurisdiction, the latest legal publication by me, David Lat. You can learn more about Original Jurisdiction by reading its About page, and you can email me at davidlat@substack.com. This is a reader-supported publication; you can subscribe by clicking on the button below. Thanks! If you’ve been defamed, and it don’t look good, who you gonna call? Clare Locke (if you can afford them). Founded in 2014 by Tom Clare and Libby Locke, who left the partnership of Kirkland & Ellis to build a plaintiff-side defamation practice free from the constraints of Biglaw, Clare Locke has become the go-to firm for major corporations and high-net-worth individuals who have suffered reputational attacks.

Community title has existed in NSW since 1990 but there are a relatively small number of these developments (compared to strata title buildings) and their peculiarities mean that most strata stakeholders don’t know much about them.  You’ll see them in larger estate-style developments or what used to be called flat strata subdivisions for villas and some townhouses. [14:00 mins estimated reading time & 2777 words] Introduction Since 1990, for larger, more complex and staged estate style developments, there’s been a new and innovative way of structuring, titling and managing those multi-owner complexes in New South Wales under community title laws.

Happy Sunday! We’re back again with a new issue of the Animation Obsessive newsletter. The agenda goes like this: 1️⃣ Where to start with UPA. 2️⃣ The news in animation, worldwide. Just finding us? You can sign up to receive our Sunday issues right in your email inbox — every week, for free: Sign Up With that, let’s go! If you were to say that animation hit maturity at Disney in the ‘30s, you’d have a point.

I’ve always admired people who have the energy and motivation to bake a variety of different cookies at this time of year and love looking at the different designs and colours of all the cookies — I mean, what a feat! My mother and I did them together one year for her best friend when she had cancer and couldn’t finish doing her famous cookie tin and it was a true labour of love (here are her buttery matcha almond cookies).

For all the ink spilled on a murder trial that took place in 1960, you’d think there was ever any question about who pulled the trigger.  There was never really any doubt that Dr. Bernard Finch and his lover, Carole Tregoff, had killed Finch’s wife, Barbara, resulting in a case that would dominate tabloid headlines for months, only to fade into obscurity.  In 1959, Dr. Finch, a 41-year-old surgeon and “serial philanderer” living in Los Angeles, was having an affair with Tregoff, his 22-year-old secretary.

32 years ago on April 24th the love of my life Dev Patel was born I first became aware of Dev Patel after watching him in Slumdog Millionaire back in 2008 and he quickly became one of my favorite actors. Since then I’ve enjoyed following his career and getting to see him grow as an actor. I genuinely believe he’s one of the best actors of our generation. While the past two years he has grown in popularity, with most people understandable focusing on his good looks, I feel that he’s a bit underrated.

By H. Lowe Back in the (g)olden days of Twitter, before it was known as X and run by a megalomaniacal meme lord who is currently fighting with my home state of Delaware in court and online, Hozier had a fairly active Twitter account. For the uninitiated—or for anyone who doesn’t know me or hasn’t heard to me talk for more than ten minutes—Hozier is a 33-year-old Irish singer-songwriter who rocketed to fame in 2014 with his blues-inflected alternative rock track “Take Me to Church” and has enjoyed continued popularity in the decade since thanks to a dedicated audience of teens, girls, lesbians, the mentally ill, and the very sad, quoth Trixie Mattel.

A few months ago, before we recorded our Seen-Unseen episode on Ukraine, Ajay Shah pointed me to the YouTube channel of a man called Perun. I was as blown away as he was. One reason for that was the quality of his analysis; the other was the fact that he gained the large following he deserved with zero production value, zero marketing and zero name recognition: Perun is a pseudonym.