Reading through old court files that mention robots.txt... you know it's good when a Judge is party to the case!

TLDR: Judge stores "funny or bizare" sexually explicit images on a family server, then connects said server to the Internet.

"""
His son suggested installing a robots.txt file. The Judge believed that would protect his entire server from access by search engines. But due to a configuration error [...]
"""

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1213881/in-re-complaint-of-judicial-misconduct/

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"Given that #Trump and his supporters hope and expect the #conservative majority on the #supremecourt to ultimately uphold a lot of what they are currently doing, this statement was a signal that this majority cannot be taken for granted.

(2) Making sense of the Trump-Roberts exchange about #impeachment
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-the-trump-roberts

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So, I have just enough money that I should probably have a will.

I'd like to leave half that money to a friend who is chronically homeless, and the remainder to my siblings & other rellies.

But since my friend is homeless, he may be difficult or impossible to reach. I'd like to include a provision that, if my friend is still unreachable after some reasonable amount of effort to find him, all the money just goes straight to the siblings & rellies.

The problem is that I plan to name one of my siblings to be my executor, so they would be the one trying to get hold of my friend. There's a conflict of interest there, since failing to find my friend would reward them with a double share of my rather meager estate.

I trust my sibling/executor; & the biggest worry really is stopping my sibling from exhausting themselves trying to find my friend.

So, my actual legal question is:
Is there a risk that just the existence of this conflict of interest could make the will invalid; or cause some big legal hassle for my sibling/executor?

The whole point of getting my affairs in order is to minimize what I will be putting my sibling/executor through. I don't want to screw things up to the point where they wish I'd died intestate.

I'm really asking for just general "this is how general legal practice generally handles this sort of thing;" but, fwiw, I reside in Washington state, & my sibling/executor lives in California.

Thanks 😊

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Possibly useful details:
*The homeless friend has a working telephone and email address; & generally keeps in touch both with me & his son.
**The sibling has agreed to be executor, and they & I will probably discuss all this several times prior to my future demise.

Examining the legality of 38 major #actions the #president has taken in his first month.

Is That #Legal? A Guide to #Trump’s Big Moves So Far. - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/upshot/trump-executive-orders-legality.html

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"Complainants now have Supreme Court authority for being able to go to court to get regulating public authorities to do their jobs properly."

(2) A blow against the "alternative remedies" excuse
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/a-blow-against-the-alternative-remedies

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BoD: 'Take down this dangerous article magisterially framing the taboo of taboo 'Nakba' as a legal concept'

CLR: 'It's valid and serious scholarship, we won't take it down'

BoD: Fine [Nuke Website protocol activated]

If it wasn't tragic, it would be hilarious.

https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/

anyway you can read the 'infamous' article here https://static.al2.in/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept.pdf

@academicchatter

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Can someone from #lawfedi tell me how judges are “randomly” picked. Computer, straws, out of a hat? Just very curious how easily this system could be “fixed”. Anybody know how it works?

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Lawyers: Trump aside, why isn’t “catch & kill” that tabloids do illegal? How’s this not just lay-away blackmail? I don’t get it.

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