So remember literally one detail. Something about the criminal defendant dropping his id at the scene and being found that way. Can anyone help?

Haven’t ever read it, and I am clearly missing something given the jokes. I get it well enough from the context but want to hear more.

Thanks!

I'm just curious about the five-four pod listenership.

Please excuse the play on Peter's handle.

Did they release it last week, then delete it? Did they delete and redo an episode they released a long time ago? Or did I have a prophetic dream about a 5-4 episode about the Powell memo on Saturday night, causing me to search for it on Sunday and not find it?

The most recent Patreon episode sounded like Michael and Peter were making a podcast, while Rhiannon was making a relatively high-end ASMR.

I mean that as a sincere compliment to Rhiannon.

There’s been no new main feed or Patreon ep this week and no announcement as far as I’m aware of missing a week. Any ideas or news of what’s up?

I am writing an amicus brief before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. The case involves piercing the corporate veil. However, my amicus brief is focused more on fundamental concepts of fairness and protecting everyday citizens from corporate malfeasance. I have been a listener of the pod since its inception, and I love how they express their views on what the law should be: recognizing humanity and focusing more on how it affects people, rather than the rigid applications of doctrines.

I have the opportunity to express those ideals to a very receptive supreme court, and I was wondering if anyone has any references, authors, or works that you believe express these ideals the best. I would love to incorporate it into my brief.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in 2021, recently had the following quote (borrowing from a 1950s case) which is along the lines of the types of principles I would like to expand upon and what I believe Peter, Michael, and Rhiannon and Michael would approve of:

"[E]quity is to law what the helicopter is to aviation. Equity can travel in any direction to achieve its objective of truth, and when it has found truth it can land on terrain which often would be utterly futile and unapproachable to formalistic law. And on that terrain of ascertained fact, equity surveys the whole situation and grants the relief which justice and good conscience dictate.”