Tailgating at Boise State and the Law
A Guide for Safe, Happy, and Fun Tailgating at Boise State! Tips for having a safe, fun, and happy tailgating experience at Boise State Who doesn’t love a tailgate party! Great weather, great friends, great food, and great football combined into a...
¿Por Qué Siempre Preso? – Reflections of Recidivism and Holistic Representation
Two Men in a Spanish Jail Sometime in the middle third of the last century, two men sit in a Spanish jail. For one, the American, this is a new venue but not an entirely foreign experience. For the other, the Spaniard, this has become all too common. In fact, the...
The Importance of Witnesses For Your Case
If you're suing someone because of a personal injury or fighting a criminal case, you may be wonderingwhether witnesses are necessary for an outcome in your favor. The answer is that they are not. However,having someone testify on your behalf can do wonders to bolster...
Status Quo On Lockdown: The Movement for Black Lives & Police Impunity During COVID-19
On June 30th, the Boise City Council began to discuss the budget for next year with hundreds of protestors gathered outside using starkly oppositional slogans1. One group was demanding that the police be defunded and clearly expressed the importance of standing...
New Blog Post – State v. Clarke, Idaho Supreme Court Decision Changes the Way Law Enforcement Handles Misdemeanors.
Hello Everyone! I’m Jacob Gifford, the newest addition to the Baldauf Masser Law Firm. Before I get into the details of this post, let me introduce myself! I’m currently a second-year law student at Concordia University School of Law here in Boise, Idaho. I was born...
Purgatory Cannot be Worse than Hell
We wrapped up the firm's first 9th Circuit oral argument on Friday. If you want to watch, take look here. Our claims center around a pre-trial civil detainee at Washington's Special Commitment Center who faces arbitrary restrictions on his constitutional rights,...
Respect Renters’ Rights
3/7/18 Update: HB 656 will not be heard this year as the House leadership is trying to wrap up the session! There's a bill in the Idaho Legislature that, put simply, is full of bad ideas. Among the issues we have with House Bill No. 656 are: It allows landlords to...
Fourth Amendment Friday — Get Off My Lawn
NOTE: Welcome to the first post in our other new alliteratively-titled weekly blog post series, Fourth Amendment Fridays. With this series we hope to highlight aspects of search and seizure law that may not be widely-known. Our hope is that an informed citizenry armed...
WTF Wednesday- Citizens United: Not Wrongly Decided?
NOTE: Welcome to our inaugural WTF Wednesday post. With this series we hope to highlight aspects of the law and legal profession that make one want to cry out “What The #@!*?” Sometimes this will be a decision we think has been wrongly decided, while other times it...
Lawyers Love Conflict?
Lawyers love conflict. At least they would appear to, given their choice of career. For trial lawyers in particular, conflict is the name of the game. We have an adversarial judicial process and your job as a trial lawyer is to go to battle on behalf of one of the...
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