Fresh off a week-long, snow and ice shutdown, Joe tells Christian he doesn’t want to be called Adam Smith anymore. We discuss viewer mail. Then we circle back to the emerging show specialty: whether you can be charged for warning drivers of a speed trap. Turns out it’s a debate that sprawls over more than a hundred years. We also talk about leveling up one’s understanding of law, from bare opinions about disputes to theories of institutional assignment. Roll for initiative: it’s time for Oral Argument.
This show’s links:
Electric Light Orchestra, Party All Over the World (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCduAMGXIzk)
Robbie Robertson’s mash-up masterpiece: On the nature of daylight / This Bitter Earth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW-GMG6xhtY)
Email us at oralargumentpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:oralargumentpodcast@gmail.com)
Oral Argument Episode 7: Speed Trap (http://oralargument.org/7)
United States v. O’Brien (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12229836877065678192)
DiPino v. Davis (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11064487617583107024)
Wikipedia on Liebeck v. McDonald’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants) (the hot coffee case)
INS v. AP (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16577297531712180725)