Robert Anderson

@ChuckDeVore We ended up moving to Arkansas after that. Much happier here.

Ah yes, the California Mountain Lion - protected from wildlife management efforts (hunting) by the sole California ballot initiative to make it to the ballot and pass without the help of professional petition gatherers or ads to boost it. Californians with little connection to nature voted to make things more difficult - for nature.

The reality is even more ridiculous than the headline. The whole reason for this bridge is so that a handful of isolated and extremely inbred mountain lions in the Malibu area can breed with normal mountain lions on the other side of the freeway to diversify their genetics. One of these inbred mountain lions killed my dog in my backyard on a college campus in 2022. The National Park Service had a tracking collar on the animal and knew where it was at all times. They didn’t give any warning to the college or anyone else. After this happened, they only admitted it was their animal after a reporter questioned them. The animal was so inbred that its father was also its grandfather, and then it mated with its father/grandfather. Mountain lions are not endangered in California in the slightest. There are actually too many of them in this area, causing them to kill each other over territory. The NPS catches all these animals every few years to replace the batteries in their tracking collars. They could literally just drive them to the other side of the freeway in a pickup. The mountain lion that killed my dog was hit by a car and killed a few months later. What a waste.

@greg_shill Thanks, Greg. I appreciate it.

@ProfRobAnderson I think about this from time to time. So sorry for your family.

@KatieZacharia The mountain lions on the south side are so inbred that they can't even hunt deer and they go after pets. One of them killed my dog on a college campus. It was so inbred that its father was also its grandfather (seriously), and it also mated with him to produce offspring.

It’s very important that people realize that they built this bridge so there wouldn’t be inbred mountain lions. That’s the truth.🤡

@anthonyrickey Poor Vladimir! A lot of people have violated their fiduciary duties to him!

@ProfRobAnderson Kicker: one of Vladimir Gusinsky's (more expensively) dismissed cases from Delaware was among the key cases discussed at Tulane today. He's a frequent-filer well-known to those who follow Delaware dockets.

An important case under Texas law shows the power of Texas's new SB 29 for cutting off meritless claims. The 3% threshold for derivative claims is essential for eliminating wasteful litigation. Check out Foley & Lardner's memo for details (link in reply).

@brainspoon It's more than that. After the mountain lion attack the California Department of Fish and Wildlife told me that if I tried to exercise my legal rights the mountain lion fanatics would threaten my family. He said that after officers euthanized lions they received violent threats.

@ProfRobAnderson Some friends of our are neighbors to a celebrity in Malibu who lost some farm animals to a mountain lion recently. I think it was not made public for both celebrity and mountain lion reasons.

Link to the Foley memo: foley.com/insights/publi…

@RandyEBarnett I think you mean right of center?

But after conservatives came to Erwin’s defense during his appointment, he would never hire left of center. So UCI was only distinguished by its high salaries to libs.

@anthony_schutz No. More to the point, they catch all these mountain lions every couple of years to replace the batteries in their collars. They could just drive them across the freeway in a pick up truck.

@ProfRobAnderson Was it killed on the highway that the bridge crosses? (Seems relevant, and sorry about your dog)

@jadler1969 @ProfGrewal They did succeed in spending a lot of taxpayer money, and they are also doing really well on Bluesky.

@ProfGrewal @ProfRobAnderson Irvine never tried very hard.

It is difficult to overstate what Texas A&M law has accomplished in just ten years. If this momentum can be continued, even in part and even for a short time, this school will tear apart the longstanding hierarchical order in the legal academy. That would be a good thing.

@anthonyrickey @PrawfBainbridge I am fondly remembering the time a few weeks ago when former Chief Justice Strine challenged me for evidence that Delaware was captured by the plaintiffs bar…

@ProfRobAnderson @PrawfBainbridge For what it's worth, SCR17 apparently dead. linkedin.com/posts/activity…

Multiple sources now reporting that the Delaware Corporation Law Council will *not* be proposing any attorney fee reforms as provided by proposed SCR 17. This makes me think back to the Texas A&M conference when former Chief Justice Strine challenged my assertion that Delaware was captured by the plaintiffs’ bar… Delaware simply cannot see that it is hurtling straight into a train wreck.

Recently during an oral argument a judge asked me if I had any authority to support my position. I just said, "Yes, Your Honor, I refer you to the case of Nunya." Then we all have a good laugh and they ruled in my favor.

Should be 13 keys instead of 10 levers.

State universities often fail to reflect the values of the people of the state who pay for those universities. In fact, very often academics have (and express) contempt for those values. It's a wonder the state legislatures have remained as hands-off as they have.

A terrific piece by Professor Fitzpatrick. One thing I'd add is that the fix is less daunting in state schools. State schools serve the people of the state. The people have a right to (and should) say whether their money is well spent in promoting their educational values.

@derektmuller There should be 13 keys instead of 10 levers.

There are just 10 levers a school can pull for USNWR purposes. The question as to why a few can pull those levers effectively, & most schools express shock each year at where they land among the rankings, is a true exercise in management capability.