The quote with which I chose to headline this post is taken from Billy Bragg's song Rotting on Remand and it captures, I think rather well, the frustrating impotence of the law. The law can take away your life, liberty or property, but it cannot do justice. As an attorney practicing in Louisiana, I deal constantly with this tension, for our Civil Code intones that "every act whatever of man of man that causes damage to another obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it." But la loi ...
Lennay Kekua
Hook, Line, and Sinker — Manti Te’o Reeled into Hoax
It was the best story of the 2012 college football season. It was a story that propelled Manti Te'o into legendary status. It helped make the Notre Dame 2012 football season seem as if it was one of destiny. It was all a lie. Manti Te'o's girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, was nothing more than a "catfish", and the Deadspin story turned every Notre Dame fan's world upside-down. Speculation ran rampant across the internet. Was Te'o involved in the hoax? Did Te'o create the hoax himself? Or was Te'o ...