Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'd never heard of the watch brand before, but it looks like a reasonable choice for a LEO — quality parts without breaking the bank. 000
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026static.klipy.comMichael Scott's Iconic 'Thank You' MomentAlt: Michael Scott's Iconic 'Thank You' Moment 000
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This. I've been saying for years (and soliciting panel comments for just as long) that the leading feature of a turn to originalism is that its standards don't evolve. 270
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026That can't be right. There'd be way more copyright scholarship from Yoo. 050
Reposted by Joe DudekAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings. 412384828
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The other day, my dog tried to eat some old chicken bones she found on the side of the road. I would have stopped her, but I'm trying to change a culture of paternalism in my household. 070
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026And if he did need to hold a vote, he'd reincorporate somewhere else so that he didn't. 020
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026At the top-right of this chart is the artist that put a beard in every silverleaf plant. 010
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When two A.I. agents become intimate, how do they keep from producing a new A.I. agent? They use the algorithm method. 681
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Ongoing Christa Pike litigation is even weirder than you think.tiktok.comWatch as a Davidson County judge questions the State of Tennessee over the botched execution of Christa Pike, who was convicted in the 1995 torture and murder of Colleen Slemmer. #christapike #tenness...TikTok video by WSMV 010
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026You built your entire career out of the first lyric. 010
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I'm just sad Joel McElvain had to live to see this. 020
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The Federal Programs Division used to mean something. 120
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Please do not pay my credit card bills. I'll take care of those on my own, thx. 360
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, I mean one can conclude that it's just politics or Calvinball all the way down. I mean if you had to describe it on legal criteria ... 020
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I'm curious what folks think of Jack Goldsmith's claim that "overturning Roe v. Wade ... [was] not resolved on the basis of original constitutional meaning." In a sense, it was doctrinal and not originalist, in that it applied Glucksberg. But the Glucksberg criteria seem to target original meaning. 131
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Good to know some states still harbor good faith and fair dealing. 😉 041
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The trouble with Justice Alito's experiential originalism is that the last living signatory to the Constitution died in June 1836. archive.ph/n1USb 051
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Do I not know what the word "no" means? Chance: Tony says I'm wrong about which way is up. Tony: No, I just think you're wrong about which way is up. 230
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026avoid major question doctrine review with this one clever trick 070
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I guess @annmlipton.bsky.social and @chancethelawyer.bsky.social aren't the only ones who think the Texans are in a race to the bottom. 272
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, I'm mostly identifying sometimes-waived immunities. 010
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Sometimes it is, though. Local governments, airport authorities, schools, etc. often have coverage that might help get to a reasonable settlement faster. 100
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Nobody wants to work there, which is all going perfectly according to plan. 1421
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Not to mention the next layer of analysis: Whether the existence of covered and non-covered claims creates a conflict of interest that should prevent the insurer from controlling the defense. 130
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There are a STUNNING number of tree- and assault-related cases where a plaintiff pleads something like "he negligently punched me in the face" to try to get the defendant an insured defense. Courts struggle with that gamesmanship. 170
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/20261. Split out the costs of defending each count as best you can with the insurers paying the negligence costs. 2. If the insurer has a piece, they have the whole thing. 3. Simmer the complaint to its essence and try to abstract an overall negligence vs. intent analysis. 120
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026There is meaningful interstate disagreement over how to address the duty to defend when a complaint contains covered claims like negligence and non-covered claims like assault. You could imagine lots of rules: ... 210
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah, the intentional conduct bar in CGL policies (and the related moral hazard) is fairly well-understood in the coverage bar. The only real fight here is probably over a duty to defend, not a duty to indemnify. That's still real money, but not $5b. 120
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I would have guessed the entire cast of SpongeBob SquarePants before I got to this guy. 080
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Remind them to tell their Civ. Pro. professors that appellate courts can order the entry of summary judgment in the non-moving party’s favor based on a recitation of the facts that does not apply the appropriate review framework. 120
Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If you had given me a million guesses who he had in mind, I would not have come close. 2290
![Hanna placed the noose around Bethea's neck, adjusted it, and then signaled to Hash to pull the trigger. Instead, Hash, who was drunk, did nothing. Hanna shouted at Hash, "Do it!" A deputy then leaned onto the trigger, which sprang the trap door. citation needed! Bethea fell 8 feet (2.4 m), and his neck was instantly broken.
Afterward, two doctors confirmed he was dead.
His body was taken to Andrew & Wheatley
Funeral Home. Icitation needed! He wanted his body to be sent to his sister in South Carolina so that she could arrange for him to be interred next to his father, but against these wishes, he was buried in a pauper's grave at Owensboro Cemetery (also known as City Cemetery and
"Potter's Field") in Owensboro. 14]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreiafwdmp63odeydunst4aizjbnunnu5s26f6bk22yqg6drbdmutqf4)
![It was estimated that a crowd of about 20,000 people gathered to watch the execution.!9! One man, 36-year-old Leonard A. Peters, was killed in a car accident while driving to Owensboro to witness the hanging. Three others, including his wife, were injured. 15. Afterwards, Hanna complained that Hash should not have been allowed to perform the execution in his drunken
condition. Hanna further said it was the worst display he experienced in the 70 hangings he had supervised. citation needed]
The spot where the scaffold stood
(approximately 37.775248° -87.116462°) is now part of a drop-off/pick-up lane in front of the Owensboro Convention Center. citation needed]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreidewrh2r7x4l3whf3llsqoenslqugawxzj3p43gflsa5pd4zqmuhi)
