Althouse: Orin Kerr makes having the middle name "Ralph" and failure to be "super nice" into a federal crime.

November 29, 2008

Orin Kerr makes having the middle name "Ralph" and failure to be "super nice" into a federal crime.

How can one lawprof, acting alone, rewrite federal criminal law?

7 comments:

themightypuck said...: The non-legal vibe on the Lori Drew case is that if an adult were to mess with a kid online in order to have sex with them, the adult (if discovered by law enforcement) would be in a lot of trouble. Similar logic applies to messing with their heads. The more legal vibe is that well motivated prosecutors are awfully good at securing convictions.; 11/29/08, 8:34 AM
Darcy said...: I think you nailed it in your first two sentences, Chris. As things should be.; 11/29/08, 8:43 AM
Ralph L said...: Kerr is correct--Ralph should always be a first name. Curiously, my grandfather Ralph's middle name was Kerr.; 11/29/08, 11:10 AM
Bissage said...: "To ralph" is one of the funnier ways to say "to vomit."

Let's use it in a sentence.

Oh my God, I am so sorry, I just ralphed all over one of your lawn chairs.

See?; 11/29/08, 11:26 AM
DaLawGiver said...: "To ralph" is one of the funnier ways to say "to vomit."

In the Air Force I used to fly with a guy who often got air sick and puked during air-to-air refuelings. His last name was Spicer so from then on he was known as Ralph Spicer.

Over the years I saw Ralph puke in helmut bags, clear plastic sandwich bags, paper lunch boxes, and of course air sickness bags. He was the Duke of Puke. He was a good guy though and once he blew chunks he was OK for the rest of the flight.; 11/29/08, 11:51 AM
Hector Owen said...: Mephistopheles meets the E.U.L.A., or, the devil and the details.; 11/29/08, 1:48 PM
Don Singleton said...: "How can one lawprof, acting alone, rewrite federal criminal law?"

He can do it because his tongue was planted firmly in his cheek when he wrote it.; 11/30/08, 3:55 PM