It seems that my call for the federal MDL Panel to hold a hearing in East St. Louis has fallen on deaf ears. (My quixotical quest is described here; background on the MDL panel, funded by your tax dollars, is here.) Rather than East St. Louis, the next MDL hearing will be held in Baltimore on May 27.
Oh well. Baltimore's not so bad. I once spent three months second-chairing a criminal trial at the federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland. The trial involved a government allegation that our client had faked fire tests to get its product installed in nuclear power plants around the country. Our client won, and I still get chills thinking about it--but that's blogging fodder for another day.
During the trial, I had an opportunity to get up to Baltimore quite a bit. As long as the federal judges are paying the city a visit too, they should make sure to eat some crabs and take a tour of the H.L. Mencken House. Meanwhile, I'm still working on the activities for the judges' visit to East St. Louis--if and when it happens.
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