Guns / Firearms
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Crime, Guns / Firearms
Armed Assailant Is Shot, Killed After Courthouse Knife Attack
No motive has been established for the assailant's courthouse attack. -
Guns / Firearms
The Second Amendment Right To Tase A Bro
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Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Violence
Lafayette Movie Theater Gunman Was A Law School Graduate
Which law school did the gunman attend?
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Guns / Firearms, Wal-Mart
Church Can’t Tell Wal-Mart What To Sell
We need to get the guns, but not like this. -
Guns / Firearms
George Zimmerman Injured In Florida Shooting Incident
The man who killed Trayvon Martin was injured in an altercation this afternoon. -
Courthouses, Guns / Firearms
Gunman Shoots Up Courthouse, Killing His Former Lawyer And A Judge
Another shooting highlights the security risks of courthouses. -
Federal Judges, Guns / Firearms
Federal Judge Shot At His Home In Botched Attack
Was this a targeted attack on the judge? -
Crime, Guns / Firearms
Attorney Arrested For Breaking Into And Shooting Up Ex-Wife's Home
This is truly "When Lawyers Attack! Day" at Above the Law. - Sponsored
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Canada, Constitutional Law, Crime, Guns / Firearms, Murder, Politics, Violence, War on Terror
The View From Up North: Terror In Ottawa
Reflections from Canadian columnist Steve Dykstra on the recent Ottawa shooting. -
Cars, Contracts, Guns / Firearms, Insider Trading, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Police
Morning Docket: 10.24.14
* Thanks to this Government Accountability Office ruling, the company that cleared NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis may lose a $210M contract. [Legal Times]
* After being acquitted on insider trading charges, Rengan Rajaratnam agreed to settle the civil suit filed against him for a cool $840K. At least he’s not in jail like his brother. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Those interested in going to law school may want to know that Philadelphia is purportedly home to some of the cheapest law schools in the country — not Penn Law, though, sorry ’bout that. [Main Street]
* Professors at WUSTL Law held a “teach-in” to discuss the Michael Brown police shooting case. According to them, the likelihood Darren Wilson will be federally charged is “slim to none.” [Student Life]
* Attack of the aggrieved ex: a man drove a burning pickup truck loaded with explosives into a law firm, destroying much of the building. He had apparently dated one of the firm’s former clients. [Virginian-Pilot]
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9th Circuit, Free Speech, Gay, Guns / Firearms, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 10.16.14
* TSA vs. the Nobel Prize. [Lowering the Bar] * A judge accidentally leaked the name of a juvenile in a juvenile sex case. But more to the point, this case is about a boy having a three-way with two of his English teachers on one of the teacher’s birthdays. I mean… South Park. [The Times-Picayune] * Teaching torts rots your brain. Maybe. [PrawfsBlawg] * Houston officials are backing away from their subpoena of sermons delivered by anti-gay pastors trying to get their congregation to sign petitions — even if the signatures were potentially fraudulent. [The Blaze] * Stand Your Ground laws find new ways to be dumb. More cases of abused women trying to evoke Stand Your Ground laws and being told that states really only meant for those to protect white dudes shooting black kids. [Slate] * A funny and insightful look at exactly how hearings go down at Gitmo. [New Jurist] * A federal judge has recused the entire Eastern District of California from a case on the basis of allegations that federal prosecutors systematically defrauded the court. Prosecutors misbehaving? That’s unpossible! [New York Observer] -
Antonin Scalia, Guns / Firearms, Prisons, Religion, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court, Television
Did The Simpsons Predict A Hot-Button SCOTUS Case 22 Years Ago?
A tipster noted that a controversial Supreme Court case from this Term gets a predictive wink from an episode that aired in 1992... -
Free Speech, Guns / Firearms, In-House Counsel, Politics, Religion, Theater, United Kingdom / Great Britain
On Beheadings, Shootings, And 'The Book Of Mormon'
In-house columnist Mark Herrmann looks at some hot-button issues with a fresh perspective.
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Education / Schools, Gay Marriage, Guns / Firearms, In-House Counsel, Intellectual Property, Morning Docket, Sports, Supreme Court, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Morning Docket: 09.04.14
* Most Americans want Supreme Court proceedings on video. Because C-SPAN is so popular. [Legal Times]
* It was bound to happen at some point. Eastern District of Louisiana Judge Martin Feldman, who you might remember from lifting the Gulf of Mexico drilling moratorium while holding thousands in oil drilling assets (which he sold the morning that he issued his decision), became the first judge since Windsor to uphold a ban on same-sex marriage as constitutional. [National Law Journal]
* Need white-collar representation? Milbank has Apps for that. Specifically, Antonia Apps, the federal prosecutor who took a leading role in the SAC Capital Advisors insider trading case, is decamping to Milbank. [Reuters]
* “What’s it like to be the lawyer for Mark Cuban or Jerry Jones? Depends if you’re winning.” I don’t know about that, Jerry Jones seems to be getting pretty used to accepting failure. [Dallas Business Journal]
* Gibson Dunn has left New York’s teacher tenure battle, leaving the job of gutting public education in the state to Kirkland & Ellis. [New York Law Journal]
* A professor carrying a concealed handgun shot himself in the foot. But remember the answer to school shootings is making sure all the teachers are armed. [TaxProf Blog]
* More Squire Patton Boggs defections: At least a dozen members of the IP group have bolted the newly-merged firm to open a D.C. office for Porzio, Bromberg & Newman. [Washington Post]
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Guns / Firearms, Racism
Where You At, You Hypocritical Second Amendment Advocates?
The Second Amendment groups have been strangely silent. -
Deaths, Guns / Firearms, Minority Issues, Police, Racism, Violence
Can Lawyers Reduce The Racial Divide In This Country?
Lawyers have the obligation to speak up and act, according to Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog. -
Constitutional Law, Crime, George J. Terwilliger III, Guns / Firearms, Murder
James Brady Death Ruled Homicide 33 Years Later -- Are You Impressed Now Jodie Foster?
Can a death three decades after a shooting open the door to a murder prosecution? -
Crime, Dan Markel, Deaths, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
The Latest Information On The Investigation Into The Murder Of Professor Dan Markel
How long did Dan Markel have to wait before paramedics arrived? -
4th Circuit, Barack Obama, Basketball, General Counsel, Guns / Firearms, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Sports
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.14
* The NRA’s general counsel was once convicted of murder. What’s the phrase? If you outlaw guns, only general counsel will have guns… [Mother Jones] * Seattle is looking for people donating skulls to Goodwill. Wow, if Jeffrey Dahmer had only known there was a charitable tax write-off available. [Lowering the Bar] * “A domestic helper has appeared in court accused of trying to injure her employer by mixing her menstrual blood in a pot of vegetables she was cooking.” Eww. [Legal Juice] * Can Congress sue the president? Here are multiple takes. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post] * As the confirmation of Pamela Harris to the Fourth Circuit reminds us, “that whole nuclear option has really worked out.” So far. [Huffington Post] * Money magazine is looking to create a ranking of undergraduate schools heavy on outcome-based factors. If you need any hints on how to do it, let us know. [The Chronicle of Higher Education] * Donald Sterling has lost, which is something he knows a lot about from his years of owning the Clippers. Here’s Mitchell Epner’s review of the ruling and its appealability. [CNBC] -
Crime, Dan Markel, Deaths, Guns / Firearms, Law Professors, Law Schools, Murder, Violence
Updates On The Investigation Into The Killing Of Professor Dan Markel
A police report and recent news stories contain additional information about the murder of Professor Dan Markel.