Hello. Welcome to my website. It started while I was in Europe for a semester, and I've kept it up since then. I'm now at the University of Chicago Law School, living in Hyde Park, and the story continues. If you want to say hi or visit me, email cfloyd at uchicago dot edu.
"Life is nothing if not the sum of your anecdotes." -Scotty The Body, on storytelling "But it ain't that bad, man. Just figure out the system before the system figures out you." -T. Matthew Smith, on the 1L year "The beer just doesn't taste as good when you're not drinking it with your buddies." -Anon., on being away from good friends "Somebody has to pay the rent around here. Why the hell not us?" -Cotton, on studying for exams
10/14/2003
So my least favorite class, at least to prepare for, is Civil Procedure. It's all about the little mundane details that have to do with civil filings, or bringing an action in court. You've got pleadings, motions, rules; it's all very, well, procedural. But now, reading Sports Illustrated, I finally see a slight bit of light. We're studying motions to dismiss right now, and how they can be useful in that they stop a lawsuit before it ever gets going, particularly if the original pleading has a problem on, say, jurisdictional grounds. Just so happens that the Big East is suing the ACC over this whole conference expansion thing, and I actually slightly understand the ins and outs of this particular case.
I guess my tuition is worth something, after all. I can now follow the world of sports that much more closely.
10/14/2003 07:30:00 AM
