[there's still a little action going on in the Con Law TWEN forum, and this is something I posted there.]

While catching up on last week's TV this past weekend, I caught "Boston Legal." Because there were no admonitions during the show not to consider justiciability issues, the case they were discussing, dealing with foreign aid to medical clinics and the Global Gag Order, had me questioning for much of the trial why the case was being considered at all. I couldn't find a way to get the plaintiff standing; the issue, dealing with the Executive's operation of foreign affairs, struck me as a political question; and this particular issue seemed moot.

The case might have been similar to Rust v. Sullivan, except that it was not the (foreign) clinic that was suing, alleging an infringement of its First Amendment rights; it was a patient who lost a child due to lacking medical supplies because of the cut funds.

All told, just another statement episode. Last night's season finale had me questioning whether Denny and Alan are admitted in California, because they immediately offered Seven of Nine (as one of our classmates referred to Jeri Ryan last week) legal services after finding her standing over the guy she'd just shot.

There was some more Con Law-related fun last night, as Denny had Barry Goal ("Denny Crane West, almost," played by Robert Wagner) searching for a jurisdiction for his "living will" that would allow him to be euthanized by "a bullet to the brain." Barry informed Denny he'd been unable to find such a jurisdiction.