It could have been worse.

I had my civpro final today. Could things have been worse? You darn tootin'. Thirty minutes after I finished turning in my exam, my damned computer up and gets infected with malware. I never had this problem with Kaspersky. But the school made us remove it and install their program which hasn't done so well. This is the second time I've been hit with a malware infection this semester.

Things could have been worse. It could have happened 30 minutes before the civpro final.

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

At the beginning of the semester, our civpro professor addressed everyone by "Mister" this or "Miss" that. But sometime in the last few weeks, he has been addressing some people by their first names. Then there are others who he still calls "Mister" or "Miss." Even though he has called on me a few times already, it's still "Mr. Jogger". There's another dude in class he has called on more times than he has me, and he is still "Mister so&so" I thought it may have been age-related but the other guy is much closer to the average 1L's age in my class. I can't figure out the rhyme or reason.

Poor Mrs. Schnible

I didn't think a civpro reading would be funny, but I am wrong. In describing the service of process in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, a story is told about the unscrupulous Harry Grossman adroit at personally placing a summons in a defendant's hands. Obviously the bastard didn't make many friends, and the passage describes how defendants have "thrown him down a flight of stairs, shoved him off porches, and he was pinched, slapped, punched and kicked by scores of individuals, and was even beaten up one time by a family of seven."

In the story, the guy lures a widowed, little old lady aged 72 in the grips of the depression and had fallen behind in her mortgage payments and subsequently facing foreclosure. Ol' Harry lured her out of her home by yelling 'Fire', and so served was Mrs. Schnible.

Pennoyer v. Neff&The Nef Reaction

The first case I read was Pennoyer v. Neff in civpro, and I was kind of excited. What a great segue this was going from chemistry to law by having the name of one of the parties in this case also sharing a surname of one of the many 'named reactions' in organic chemistry. There are so many cockamamie named reactions in organic chemistry and we are expected to know them all lest we look like idiots.

Other than the surname in common, there is nothing else similar between a case about personal jurisdiction where the court made a half-assed attempt to notify the defendant about the case and the conversion of a nitro alkane to a ketone. It reminds me of that scene in the Richard Pryor movie Moving when the movers in Idaho posted a note on the front door at Pryor's house after being over a day late, lightly knocking on the door and running back to the truck so they could go off and party.


I wonder how many times the association with the Pennoyer Case and the Nef Reaction have been made?