7th Circuit
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7th Circuit, Drugs, Health Care / Medicine, Immigration, Malpractice, Politics, Richard Posner
Posner for President!
Should Judge Richard Posner leave the Seventh Circuit and run for president? He certainly has the beginnings of a platform. And, despite some possible leftward drift, Judge Posner’s tendencies still seem to point in a libertarian direction. From The Atlantic: 1. Remove all limits on the immigration of highly skilled workers, or persons of wealth. […] -
7th Circuit, Gambling / Gaming, Prisons, Sentencing Law, Violence
Seventh Circuit Rules Dungeons & Dragons A Threat to Prison Security
Predictably, I used to play Dungeons & Dragons in high school. Just as predictably, I didn’t lose my virginity until I stopped. It’s an established fact that Dungeons & Dragons is a bigger threat to human reproduction than all the gay marriages in the world. But I did not know until this day that D&D […] - Sponsored
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7th Circuit, Attorney Misconduct, Benchslaps, Legal Ethics, Richard Posner
A Benchslap for Kirkland & Ellis, from Judge Posner and the Seventh Circuit
Is the customer always right? In the legal profession, not necessarily. As a lawyer, sometimes your job is to talk some sense into your client — and to refuse to move forward if your client, ignoring your advice, orders you to prosecute frivolous (or borderline frivolous) litigation. Perhaps this lesson needs to be learned by […]
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7th Circuit, 9th Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Department of Justice, Diarmuid O'Scannlain, Harvard, Richard Posner, Supreme Court Clerks, Weddings, Willkie Farr
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 7.12: French Kissing
Rejoice, wedding fans! We have some compelling mid-summer material for you this week: Wachtell, SCOTUS, lesbians, French nobility — read on for the details on all of that and more, as reported in the New York Times and filtered by us. Our finalist couples: 1. Rebecca Gutner and Rodman Forter Jr. 2. Laura Hammond and […] -
7th Circuit, Federal Circuit, Richard Posner, Sex
Judge Richard Posner Knows His Sex Toys
It’s an exciting day here at ATL when we can find three excuses to cover the salacious beat (see #1 and #2). Judge Richard Posner brings us our third opportunity. Judge Posner issued a ruling [PDF] Friday in a patent infringement case involving “sex aids” companies. Posner brings his dry humor and excellent wit to […] -
7th Circuit, Richard Posner, Women's Issues
Check Your Sexist Cracks Before Entering Posner's Domain
You never know where you’ll find sexism in our society and our profession. It knows no party or ideology. But it has no place in court. In a decision yesterday, 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner took a shot at a plaintiff’s attorney who thought this was still 1950. The case, Thorogood v. Sears Roebuck, was […] -
7th Circuit, New York Times, State Judges Are Clowns, US Weekly, Weddings
Legal Eagle Wedding Watch 8.10: Hotness Disparity Edition
As some of you have noticed, we tend not to remark negatively on the innate physical attributes of our Legal Eagle contestants. There are several reasons for our reticence, but the most basic one is simply this: LEWW believes that prestige is beautiful. LEWW believes that every bride can look gorgeous on her special day […] -
7th Circuit, Advertising, Cars, Choate Hall & Stewart, Crime, Non-Sequiturs, Religion
Non-Sequiturs: 11.15.07
* Seventh Circuit to lawyer: What is this, amateur hour? [TaxProf Blog] * Some more full length attorney bio pics. [Groom Law Group] * Speaking of the whole Mac-PC thing… [Choate Hall & Stewart LLP] * Former Congressman blows by the cops while getting blown, then refuses to blow. [Times Union] * Ah jeez, the […] - Sponsored
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7th Circuit, Animal Law, Food, Nauseating Things, Richard Posner, Weirdness
They Eat Horses, Don't They?
Well, not in Illinois. In Cavel International v. Madigan (PDF; via How Appealing), the Seventh Circuit upheld an Illinois law making it unlawful to “slaughter a horse if that person knows or should know that any of the horse meat will be used for human consumption.” It’s a quirky and interesting case. Howard Bashman provides […] -
7th Circuit, Crime, Diane Wood, George Ryan, Politics, Pro Bono
Breaking: Seventh Circuit Affirms Conviction of Gov. George Ryan
Since the tireless Howard Bashman is in transit, we’ll temporarily assume his role as super-timely provider of appellate litigation news. This just in: A divided Seventh Circuit panel has affirmed the criminal convictions of former Illinois Governor George H. Ryan and his associate, Lawrence Warner. The majority opinion is by Judge Diane Wood (who is […] -
7th Circuit, Fast Food, Fat People, Food, Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner
The Seventh Circuit: The Fittest Court in the Country?
The rail-thin Judge Richard Posner (7th Cir.), who favors grapefruit for dessert, has this to say about fat people over at his blog: It makes sense, as the recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine finds, that friends’ fatness would have an influence distinct from that of the culture as a whole…. In […] -
7th Circuit, Benchslaps, Judge of the Day, Old People, Screw-Ups, Sentencing Law
Judge of the Day: John Shabaz
Not allowing the defendant to allocute before pronouncing sentence is a rookie mistake for a judge to make. So if a judge makes it, despite having been on the bench for over 25 years, he can expect to get benchslapped. From a Wisconsin reader: Not sure if this is quite up your alley, but Federal […] -
7th Circuit, Diane Wood, Frank Easterbrook, Gay, Lawsuit of the Day, Perverts, Richard Posner, Sexual Harassment, Weirdness
Lawsuit of the Day: Bernier v. Morningstar
What do you get when you put the three smartest judges on the Seventh Circuit — Frank Easterbrook, Richard Posner, and Diane Wood — on the same panel? In this case, something weird. Very weird. It’s amusing to imagine this trio of legal geniuses wrapping their minds around such a bizarre fact pattern. Questions Presented: […]
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7th Circuit, Birthdays, Celebrities, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Real Estate, Romance and Dating, Rudeness, Sexual Harassment, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 03.29.07
* A hilarious read if you’ve been there, even if I tell you that the punchline is that this 70-year-old rich lawyer dude with 40-year-old sheets now has a 22-year-old Russian girlfriend. [New York Times] * I think I heard a colleague at one of my first jobs say he wanted to f*&k me like […] -
7th Circuit, Art, Benchslaps, Education / Schools, Fashion, Kids, Lawsuit of the Day, Richard Posner
We Hope This Makes It Into F.3d
A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post about Judge Richard Posner’s opinion in the “Giftes” free speech T-shirt case. Thanks to the commenter who brought the two drawings in the opinion exhibits to our attention. We reprint them after the jump. And we look forward to seeing them in the august pages of the Federal Reporter. -
7th Circuit, Benchslaps, Education / Schools, Fashion, Free Speech, Kids, Lawsuit of the Day, Richard Posner
Judge Posner Gives the 'Gifties' an Appellate Wedgie
A detailed excerpt, plus a link to the full opinion, can be accessed here (via How Appealing). Money quote: [T]he picture and the few words imprinted on the Brandt T-shirt are no more expressive of an idea or opinion that the First Amendment might be thought to protect than a young child’s talentless infantile drawing […] -
7th Circuit, Dahlia Lithwick, Death Penalty, Feeder Judges, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Law Firm Mergers, Money, Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 02.13.07
* Dahlia Lithwick on SCOTUS and the death penalty. [Slate] * A panel of the Seventh Circuit is made up entirely of Sixth Circuit judges sitting by designation. Of course, recusal seems to make sense when the defendant plotted to attack the Seventh Circuit’s courthouse. [How Appealing] * Novak testifies: he got the info from […]
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7th Circuit, Education / Schools, Fashion, Free Speech, Kids, Lawsuit of the Day, Richard Posner
Lawsuit of the Day: Gifties v. Tards
Here’s an interesting appeal that was recently argued before the Seventh Circuit. From the Chicago Sun-Times (via Ted Frank): Four years ago, the “Gifties” of Beaubien School lost in the principal’s office. Then, this class of gifted eighth-grade students lost in U.S. district court. Undeterred, Thursday the group went before one of the highest courts […] -
7th Circuit, Chadbourne & Parke, Department of Justice, Fast Food, Food, Frank Easterbrook, Morning Docket, Peter Lattman, Richard Posner, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, WSJ Law Blog
Morning Docket: 12.26.06
As previously mentioned, we’re on a reduced publication schedule this week. We’ll be doing a daily news round-up (and maybe a few other random posts here and there). We’ll return to our normal diarrhea of the keyboard publishing schedule on January 2. * Civil libertarians, just raise the white flag. The Justice Department knows what […]
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7th Circuit, ACLU, Cars, Conspiracy Theories, Crime, Deaths, Immigration, Morning Docket, Politics, S.D.N.Y., Sex, Tax Law, Videos
Morning Docket: 12.14.06
* The feds and the ACLU wrangle over a classified document. Is such use of the grand jury subpoena creative, or improper? [New York Times] * A Swift (& Co.) crackdown: federal raids on meatpacking plants in six states result in over 1,200 arrests on immigration charges. [Associated Press] * MoveOn and those Swift Boat […]