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Non-Sequiturs: 10.06.09

Mel Gibson DUI.JPG* Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest has been officially expunged from the record. It’s almost like it never happened, kind of like Apocalypto. [TMZ]

* The FTC is requiring bloggers who review products to disclose their connections with advertisers. Our sister site Fashionista has some questions. [Fashionista]

* George Washington Law School got the U.S. News law school rankings message. Man, that U.S. News is one powerful magazine. [WSJ Law Blog]

* The dangers of being a process server could make for a movie subplot. [Adventures in Process Serving]

* Is Georgetown Law professor Chai Feldblum, nominated to serve on the EEOC, the victim of a smear campaign? [Re:Act / The NLGJA Blog]

* Mental note: Do not piss off Matt Taibbi. [True/Slant]

* Last call for entries for ATL’s law firm swag contest. (We’ve been disappointed by the submissions so far.) [Above the Law]

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:28 PM

I just want to wish Justice Ginsburg good luck- we're all counting on her

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:28 PM

Fired First

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:29 PM

FIRST!

mid size secure

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:30 PM

Who wants to read the first draft of my law review article?

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:32 PM

I just want to wish Justice Ginsburg good luck- we're all counting on her

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:48 PM

Apocalypto ruled.

Come on Lat and Mystal. How many times can you watch The Crying Game?

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:48 PM

The photo at Adventures in Process Serving is priceless.

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:49 PM

Stop settling into unidimensional stereotypes, please. Lately, it seems as though Elie mostly writes about racial minorities who claim to be victims, Lat mostly writes about gay people who claim to be victims, and Kash writes about sex.

You're better than this. At least one or two of you are.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:53 PM

So, if someone recognizes the conflict between same-sex marriage and religious liberty somewhere, and elsewhere signs a petition that advocates the recognition of “[c]ommitted, loving households in which there is more than one conjugal partner" as a "family unit," it's a "smear campaign" to seek clarification?

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 5:59 PM

9 has a point (re: link #5).

Isn't that a reasonable inference to draw - that if someone supports "loving households in which there is more than one conjugal partner," they support polygamy?

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 6:19 PM

Apocalypto was one of the best movies made in recent years. It's worth renting.

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12 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 7:56 PM

9 and 10 both have valid points in that some clarification is needed. The assumption, however, that the right-wing media is intellectually or analytically capable of clarifying this document and this sentence and offering a somewhat neutral assessment is beyond the realm of possibility.

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 8:03 PM

Hear hear, Apocalypto IS a good movie!

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:26 PM

So a Court can expunge Mel Gibson's DUI, but it can't expunge my useless JD and NY/NJ bar licenses? Luckily the Yankees and Giants (barring Eli's injury being serious) can make me forget my path so it almost never happened.

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:21 AM

Denny Chin gets the official nod.

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 7:20 AM

I just want to wish Justice Ginsburg good luck- we're all counting on her

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 8:49 AM

6, 11, and 13 are wise. Lattt and Mystttal are morons.

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18 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 9:32 AM

apocalypto is actually a bitchin good movie.

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 9:39 AM

Have Lat or Fatty McFystal even seen Apocalypto? That was an incredible movie.

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:13 AM

Apocalypto wasn't even the best movie referenced in this post.

Pineapple Express, on the other hand, should have won the Academy Award -- for Best Movie Ever Made!

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:45 AM

Another thumbs up for Apocalyto. Only a douche would give that movie a bad review. If you want to slam a Gibson movie, try something with Danny Glover in it (douche).

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22 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, October 7, 2009 11:04 AM

Elie - when did this blog become just a liberal mouth piece. We already have a huffington post. Your bias is so bad that I am considering banning myself from a site I used to enjoy. So the BC professor is a bigot but this EEOC candidate is the victim of a smear campaign. Heavens to mergatroid.

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23 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, October 9, 2009 4:08 PM

Question about this whole "law school rankings" thing. Outside of the top, say, 20 schools, are firms even aware of the rankings? I only ask because on several occasions I have been told by partners at firms in the area that my school, along with another school ranked in the 40s, is seen as an equivalent to a third school, ranked in the 90s. I wish I would have known this because I would have gone to the school ranked in the 90s on a major scholarship while still having the same job prospects (read: none). Is there a plateau where everything just drops off? If so, where is this plateau?

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