Today in Supreme Court History: November 24, 2001

11/24/2001: Salim Hamdan was captured in Afghanistan. The Supreme Court would decide his case in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006).

The Roberts Court (2006)

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[jdgalt1]

I hope it is OK to use these history posts as open threads. I suppose I could comment at last week's Thursday Open Thread but that seems even more of a stretch.

This is just a story I found outrageous and would like to see if attorneys have anything to say about it:

A 63-year-old woman said that she and her six-year-old granddaughter were kicked out of hotel in the middle of the night for leaving a 3 out of 5 stars online review. They had to walk a third of a mile to a nearby hotel in their pajamas.

Full article here.

[Jacob Grimes]

Not an attorney (yet), but kicking someone out of a hotel for posting a negative review probably wouldn't constitute "cause" under GA s 43-21-3.1. The statute has been cited in a couple cases in which people were thrown out for being disruptive.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

I hope that hotel has a liquor license, and that the state revokes it.

[Life of Brian]

If that's the entirety of the story, it is indeed outrageous.

But the red flags start going up fairly rapidly when (1) I see lots of negative reviews for the place online (it's not the Taj Majal, folks -- welcome to low-budget life on the road) with no sign whatsoever of retaliation, (2) the article purports to have a recording of the entire 911 call and police report but chooses to treat me to a few clearly crop-quoted snippets of it, and (3) the hotel owner said she had called the front desk close to a dozen times in an hour bitching about various things before finally leaving the review (which they try to dismiss by allegedly impeaching it via another crop-quoted piece of the 911 call).

Particularly if that last bit is true, I could easily see her having threatened to leave the bad review as leverage to get whatever sort of compensation she was after, and the manager realized there wasn't a thing he was going to be able to do to make her happy during her slated 3-night stay. But it's impossible to tell when the only facts available are through the drama-for-clicks expose team (who run through an obviously slanted routine in the video like pushing the front door shut with a finger and helplessly wiggling the deadbolt, helplessly flipping a light switch that may well not even connect to anything anymore after a remodel, etc.) And I'd be fairly surprised if he hadn't already tried to put her in a different room (routine in my experience when they have the space, particularly when you ask politely) and she just came up with a different laundry list of grievances -- again, the entirety of the 911 call and police report would likely make that clear.

[Sebastian Cremmington]

Trump is an American hero for surrendering to the Taliban…I wonder if Trump is a secret Muslim like Obama?? 😉

[AmosArch]

Call it what you will but given the current mindset of America it was only ever going to end at best in a negotiated withdrawal and Trump/his advisors knew it.

Either that or something even worse like a disorganized unexpected retreat which happened to be the option your side chose.

[Sebastian Cremmington]

I’m a Trump supporter—but Zalmay Khalizidad is the guy that gets the credit/blame for what transpired at the end in Afghanistan. Khalizidad was the man with the plan and he seems like a fairly typical incompetent Bush Republican.

[Gandydancer]

Biden was President but the Afghanistan exit debacle was Bush's fault?

Tell me another.

[apedad]

Since we're hijacking this thread as a Thursday Open Thread, how does three guilty of felony murder verdicts sound.

Jurors in Brunswick, Georgia, on Wednesday found Travis McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael, guilty on nearly all counts, including felony murder, capping off an intense trial surrounding the February 2020 shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery.

Jurors also found the McMichaels' neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, guilty of felony murder.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ahmaud-arbery-trial-verdict

[AmosArch]

They had to make up for Rittenhouse getting off after mercilessly gunning down two innocent black men.

[Gandydancer]

As Rittenhouse said, the right to self defense was on trial. And in GA it lost.

[jdgalt1]

My reading is that the defendants were making a citizen's arrest for burglaries which had happened on earlier days. In some states that would be valid but apparently in GA you don't get to do that. I hope the governor gives them reduced sentences at least.

[AmosArch]

They had to make up for Rittenhouse getting off after mercilessly gunning down two innocent black men.

[jdgalt1]

Bosh! The only thing Rittenhouse did wrong was to miss Jump Kick Man. Twice. I recommend remedial shooting instruction.