Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor, around 1,000 square miles in northern Ukraine were evacuated due to radioactive contamination. Video games such as S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Call of Duty imagine the zone as a lawless wasteland, with bandits and spies fighting in Soviet-era […]

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There is a long-running debate in FedCourts circles about unpublished opinions. These decisions, by their terms, are not precedential. Yet, lawyers, and some courts, will cite unpublished opinions as precedents. The line between published and unpublished is fuzzy at best. And, as I understand things, if one judge on a panel requests it, an opinion will be published. There is another element of unpublished opinions that is less understood: because unpublished opinions are not precedent, there is less […]

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⁠É fácil criticar a letra de uma música,ou de um verso qualquer, difícil é aceitar a verdade que tá  nas palavras ralé. 

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James Caban, the twin brother of then-New York City Police Commissioner Edward Caban, impersonated his brother to trick police into going easy on nightclubs and bars that paid protection money, according to a federal complaint. James Caban reportedly used his brother’s name at the 34th Precinct in Washington Heights to stop raids on businesses breaking the law. The complaint alleges the precinct commander, Inspector Aneudy Castillo, let officers think he was his brother and made sure these businesses […]

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