Non-Sequiturs

* A look at the Supreme Court’s IP docket for next Term. [The Fashion Law]

* The Los Angeles Rams just lost a lawsuit to its personal seat license holders back in St. Louis. [Deadspin]

* Judges in North Carolina can still refuse to perform same-sex weddings. And, it may not change any time soon. [The Atlantic]

* Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow (affiliate link), is taking a break from Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law to serve as a visiting professor at the Union Theological Seminary. [Union Theological Seminary]

* The uneven resources in local criminal prosecutions. [Katz Justice]

* Tiffany & Co. aggressively defends its trademarks. [Androvett Blog]

* Taking a phone call for one client while meeting with another leaves a terrible impression. [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* Constitution Smonstitution. A look at Trump’s new plan. [Huffington Post]

* The Avengers are taking a side in this year’s election. [Salon]

* Texas is straight-up lying to voters about its voter ID laws. [Slate]

* Disturbing allegations surrounding Anthony Weiner’s sexting habit. [The Slot / Jezebel]

* Here’s what to bring to a presidential debate party. [Law and More]

* Jim Carrey is fighting back after being sued over the death of his girlfriend, Cathriona White. [E! Online]

* Could there already be a liberal majority on the Supreme Court? At least when it comes to voting rights. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* How lawyers can establish a presence in a room. [Law and More]

* Tips for attorneys that want to become entrepreneurs. [Huffington Post]

* Are film tax credits a bad investment for states? [TaxProf Blog]

* Brianne Gorod of the Constitutional Accountability Center explains why the upcoming elections matter so much for the federal judiciary. [Democracy]

* Surprise, surprise. The federal government isn’t such a great steward of the Trail of Tears. [AP]

* Litigator and writer Jonathan Shapiro speaks with Deborah Kalb about his novel Deadly Force (affiliate link) and his latest legal TV show, Goliath, which premieres next month. [Books Q&As]

* Thoughts on fixing our broken government from Philip K. Howard, Covington partner turned author and reform advocate. [Wall Street Journal]

* The biggest scams you need to know about, before it is too late. [Pawn Hero]

* How to get juries to feel an acquittal in their gut. [Katz Justice]

* American history is owed to booze. [Law and More]

* Are political differences killing the U.S.’s economic growth? [Tax Prof Blog]

* Prison reforms may actually be coming to Rikers Island. An analysis of the case that led to the changes. [Cityland]

* A profile of Justice John Stevens that focuses on his love of baseball and his dissent in Bush v. Gore. [Chicago Daily Law Bulletin]

* Will the Roger Ailes sexual harassment scandal lead to shareholder litigation for parent company 20th Century Fox? [Law and More]

* Dissecting the work patterns of the Supreme Court (think longer opinions and more briefs). [Empirical SCOTUS]

* If you’re at Long Beach Comic Con, check out the “Lawyers of Hell’s Kitchen” panel for all the legal issues you need to know about Marvel’s TV universe. [The Legal Geeks]

* A considered case for pardoning Edward Snowden by Timothy Edgar, who was on the team responsible during the George W. Bush administration for determining that most of the secret surveillance programs had a firm basis in law. [Lawfare]

* The Virginia Supreme Court denied an effort by Republican legislators to find Governor McAuliffe in contempt over an effort to restore voting rights to felons. [Richmond Times-Dispatch]

* The “Urban Cowboy” threatens to sue New York City. Most importantly, he’s lawyered up with Richard Luthmann, the Staten Island lawyer who previously sought trial by combat. This should be fun. [Gothamist]

* An omnibus look at what the election means for the courts. Beyond Justice Peter Thiel, of course. [Law.com]

* Many University of Chicago professors have denounced the “no safe spaces” publicity stunt from a few weeks ago, but the law school has largely missed the point of the dispute stayed out of the fray. [WSJ Law Blog]

* You don’t see many paeans to the Lochner era, but here’s one. [Library of Law and Liberty]

* Oregon has settled with Oracle over the state’s troubled health exchange. [Oregonlive]

* Walking meetings improve productivity. Yeah, I’ve watched West Wing reruns too. [TaxProf Blog]

* ATL Editor Kathryn Rubino talks politics on the latest Today’s Verdict. [BronxNet]

* Bar exam results from Washington. Numbers are down… is the state’s alternative lawyer program partly responsible? [Bar Exam Stats]

* Important advice for a young attorney: consider the billing rates of your practice group. [Bobogado]

* Now the ACC is pulling out of North Carolina over the wide-ranging discrimination bill — superseding local ordinances protecting against LGBT discrimination generally — that dumb, reductionist types insist on calling the “bathroom law.” [CBS Sports]

* Acquittals require the human connection. [Katz Justice]

* And if you don’t believe that one, here’s the psychology to back it up. [Law360]

* You can get out of stuff by fearing documents? [Lowering the Bar]

* This sponsored post from our site is worth a look, featuring an interview with a general counsel and a managing partner on the fallout from the Moneylaw associate salary bumps. [Above the Law]

* Sad news tonight as Finnegan mourns the passing of Ford Farabow, one of the firm’s founding partners. [Finnegan]

* Beware of using too many acronyms in your legal writing. [Law Prose]

* All the details you need to know about Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams’s lawsuit against MLB Network. [Deadspin]

* The dirty tricks are coming fast and furious in the Louisiana Senate race. [Slate]

* Will there be a criminal probe into Donald Trump’s campaign donations? [Huffington Post]

* Working for a firm with a troubled reputation can change people’s opinion of your own. [Law and More]

* Interesting attorney ethics complaint filled with allegations of racial slurs and anti-Semitic language. [Legal Profession Blog]

* Attention associates: This is who you should thank for your raises. (Hint: you’re welcome.) [3 Geeks and a Law Blog]

* The justices on the Supreme Court sure do have a lot in common. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* This lawyer is blowing up what you expect from a general counsel. [Big Law Business]

* Does the Supreme Court lag behind the other two branches of the federal government when it comes to reporting potential conflicts of interest? [Fix the Court]

* Watch out for your cases being deemed frivolous lawsuits by Judge Clay Land. [Law and More]

* The ABA is finally cracking down on law school accreditation… and ham-fistedly came down on the wrong school. [Big Law Business]

* The EU Playboy verdict could undermine the online press. [Engadget]

* Today, on the anniversary of the Attica uprising, prisoners across several states planned a mass work stoppage to protest systemic injustices. How does something like this come together? [Wired]

* Meanwhile, across the pond, the Supreme Court is selling off art made by prisoners for £30-£500 a pop. [Legal Cheek]

* We need more judges like this. [Katz Justice]

* A chat with activist Amanda Nguyen on the occasion of President Obama’s expected signing of the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. [NPR]

* The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline is generating as much buzz as anything can over the cacophony of the election and football, but is there a legal case to be made for putting a stop to the project? [The Atlantic]

* Forget about the Prime Directive, why doesn’t Star Fleet have a duty to warn about some of the crazy stuff they run across? [The Legal Geeks]

* Speaking of Star Trek, the National Marine Fisheries Service just delisted nine humpback whale populations from the endangered species list. Thanks, Admiral Kirk! [Courthouse News Service]

* Jeremy Blachman and Cameron Stracher’s satire on legal education, The Curve (reviewed here and here), is being developed for television by NBC. [Variety]

* Netflix is doubling down on legal documentaries; now they are taking on the Amanda Knox case. [Huffington Post]

* Exploring the legal issues in a classic Star Trek episode. [The Legal Geeks]

* Which law school classes will actually predict your success at the bar exam? [TaxProf Blog]

* What are the repercussions for Donald Trump after more information is revealed surrounding his interactions with Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi? [Salon]

* Greta Van Susteren left Fox News — will there be legal action? [Law and More]

* Following the lawsuit against him alleging sexual harassment, former Berkeley Law Dean Sujit Choudry writes an open letter to students. [Daily Cal]

* Thanks to the internet we all have information overload — so how do you get through to a jury? [Katz Justice]

* Here are the changes to how the Multistate Bar Exam will be testing evidence. [Excellence in Law School]

* He may not be on the Court (yet), but Judge Garland is already impacting SCOTUS decisions. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Who are the real winners and losers? [Guile is Good]

* Is your hard drive keeping you in the past? [Law and More]

* Everything you need to know about social media marketing before you go solo. [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* Britney Spears’s lawyers are really quick to threaten lawsuits. Allegedly. [TMZ]

* The only Harry Potter analogy to tax proposals you’ll ever need. [TaxProf Blog]

* The legal case to take down an alleged Hollywood Peeping Tom. [Perez Hilton]

* EpiPen’s maker, Mylan Pharmaceuticals, is in more hot water. This time it is of the New York Attorney General/antitrust variety. [Gizmodo]

* Copyright troll caught in its own petard. [BBC]

* An update on the minor-league baseball wage litigation. [Fangraphs]

* Rating the sketch factor of Donald Trump’s donation to Florida’s Attorney General, Pam Bondi. [Slate]

* The work of a jury consultant, Dr. Bull, will be coming to a TV near you. [Law360]

Ed. note: Due to the Labor Day holiday, we will be on a reduced publication schedule today, and observing the holiday on Monday. Hope everyone has an enjoyable, restful, and long weekend. * Fans are demanding that Los Angeles bill the Rams for increased police expenditures. So… where will the Rams threaten to move next year? […]

* It’s official: a judge has ruled Beyoncé’s landmark visual album, Lemonade, did not infringe on a white dude’s indie film. [Hollywood Reporter]

* Tim Cook is pissed off about his Irish tax bill. [Huffington Post]

* Will writing these things on legal documents get you fired? [Defenestration Magazine]

* The chances of lawyers landing on their feet when they’ve been fired at 61. [Law and More]

* Does the length of a jury’s deliberation have a correlation to the verdict returned? [Versus Texas]

* SCOTUS is having none of the North Carolina voter ID bullsh*t. [Huffington Post]

* Being a good defense lawyer is about finding and owning the paths to winning. [Katz Justice]

* Some people really want to give UNT Dallas College of Law another shot at accreditation. [Texas Lawyer]

* The lowdown on the recent decision requiring class action plaintiffs to disclose litigation funding. [Dando Diary]

* A comparison of how Hurst and Whole Woman’s Health have been applied differently by state courts. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* In honor of the upcoming Labor Day holiday, FLSA compliance and the American worker. [ADP]

* What lawyers can learn from Judge Richard Posner, according to William Domnarski’s new biography (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]

* Should law reviews be worried? [Chronicle of Higher Education]

* One law school’s enrollment is down 26%. [TaxProf Blog]

* Transparency report from the most recent Supreme Court Term. [Fix the Court]

* A look at FCPA enforcement actions concerning charitable foundations. [FCPA Professors]

* Need help deciding if law school is right for you? Well, if you have doubts you probably shouldn’t go, but here are some things to consider. [Bobogado]

* Is there a way to use the law to take a stand against the police killings of unarmed black men? [Guile Is Good]

* Sometimes thinking like a lawyer can save you an awful lot of money. [Law and More]

* What lessons do you wish you’d learned in law school? [ABA For Law Students]

* Insurance is super important to the resolution of personal injury cases. [The Daily Record]

* The definitive answer to the question only Elie Mystal cares about — Who in Game of Thrones would make the best lawyer? [LinkedIn]

* It’s official: non-profit Truth in Advertising has filed a complaint with the FTC about the Kardashian/Jenner family’s sloppily labeled sponsored posts. [The Fashion Law]

* Texas is forum shopping in its lawsuits against the federal government — and it’s working. [Huffington Post]

* Sedgwick’s gender discrimination lawsuit could be headed to arbitration. [Law.com]

* Despite knowing better, people are still going to law school. [Law and More]

* A lawsuit by New York Giants player Jason Pierre-Paul against ESPN will go forward. The firework enthusiast is mad ESPN reporter Adam Schefter tweeted out a pic of the x-ray of his hand after an accident last Fourth of July. [The Hollywood Reporter]

* The Kardashians are changing their #sponsoredcontent ways. [Jezebel]

* How lawsuits against Ivy League retirement plans could help you — by William Birdthistle, author of Empire of the Fund (affiliate link). [Forbes]

* A Republican Super PAC is going hard after Fordham Law professor and Congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout. [The Slot]

* “I knew you would pull it off.” When clients help their lawyers with an impressive victory. [Katz Justice]

* Exactly how readable are the decisions from the 2015 Supreme Court term? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Are immigration glitches hurting American farmers? [Huffington Post]

* Should you feel sorry for Scott Brown because he wasn’t named in a lawsuit? [Law and More]

* This is how the Ivies bust unions. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]