Non-Sequiturs
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.24.16
* A debate between two British academics in honor of National Ukrainian Independence Day. [Debates.EU]
* Fascinating podcast with Professor Steve Drizin who heads up the legal team defending Making A Murderer’s Brendan Dassey. [Scalar Learning]
* You really don’t want a stressed out jury on your hands. [Law360]
* The University of Kentucky would rather sue its student newspaper than release documents about a professor accused of sexual assault. [Buzzfeed]
* Early retirement is probably not happening for law firm partners. [Law and More]
* The Title VII loopholes restaurants use to only hire pretty servers. [Jezebel]
* Scott Brown is denying Andrea Tantaros’ allegations that he sexually harassed her at Fox News. [Slate]
* Is law school worth the money? 1 percent of attorneys have high paying careers — you be the judge. [Investopedia]
* Analogizing law school to setting a track and field world record. [Tax Prof Blog]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.23.16
* When a case about giant inflatable cats and rats comes before Judge Easterbrook, he rises to the occasion. [FindLaw]
* Lesson from the Lochte incident. [Huffington Post]
* Analyzing the cert petitions filed with the Court this summer. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Expanding corporate speech to deny climate change. [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* The role of expert testimony in the talcum powder case. [The Expert Institute]
* Get your tickets for this Friday’s reading of two legally themed TV pilots. [The Tank]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.22.16
* Sonia Sotomayor is proving she is a different kind of Supreme Court justice. [Guile is Good]
* Nick Denton gets a nice payday in exchange for a non-compete clause. [Wall Street Journal]
* Federal judge rules Ferguson School District violated the Voting Rights Act. [Huffington Post]
* Democrats are screwing up Obamacare — does this open the door to the single-payer option? [Slate]
* Even Mike Pence can’t keep a straight face when confronted with Trump’s “ideas.” [Salon]
* The battle over #sponsored posts continues. [Speechwriter-Ghostwriter]
* No maternity leave? No problem. Just learn the basics of an office birth. [Funny or Die]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.19.16
* Is it time for Mike Pence to act on pardoning a wrongfully convicted man? [Huffington Post]
* Let the postmortems begin: Who killed Gawker? [New York Magazine]
* Lewis & Clark Law School fails Communications 101. [Law and More]
* This is a huge step backwards for Title VII enforcement. [Slate]
* The number of prospective law professors takes a tumble. [TaxProf Blog]
* Yale Law School grad J.D. Vance, author of the bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy (affiliate link), explains the appeal of Donald Trump to certain voters. [New York Times]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.18.16
* North Carolina really wants to keep its voter ID law alive. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* RIP Gawker. [Gawker]
* Even Biglaw firms know Martin Shkreli is toxic. [Law360]
* Which SCOTUS cases from this past term are already getting cited by lower courts? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Breakdown of how Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane wound up a convicted criminal. [Vice]
* Northwestern Law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer discusses sexual assault on campus. [Legal Talk Network]
* Donald Trump and Roger Ailes are teaming up, but maybe it isn’t Hillary Clinton who should be worried. [Law and More]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.17.16
* Zephyr Teachout, the Fordham Law professor and congressional candidate, wants to take on her opponent’s backers. [Gawker]
* A somewhat less expensive way for law school to take money from students is gaining in popularity. [WVTF]
* Good luck with that whole work/life balance — the law is a jealous mistress. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* If you can imagine it, Harvard Law School actually used to be more miserable, particularly for black women. [Huffington Post]
* Who will be live-tweeting the first presidential debate, or simpler, who won’t be? [Law and More]
* The conservative legacy of Justice Powell is still felt today. [Truthdig]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.16.16
* Former NYPD police office Peter Liang didn’t have to serve jail time over the killing of Akai Gurley, but he (and the city of New York) will have to pay to settle the civil lawsuit. [Huffington Post]
* The Supreme Court does no favors for victims of police brutality. [Slate]
* How will Jones Day rebrand itself if (when?) its client, Donald Trump, fails? [Law and More]
* Republican lawmakers are pushing for a perjury case to be brought against Hillary Clinton. [Law Newz]
* Donald Trump unveiled a new immigration plan, but not everyone thinks it passes the legality bar. [Salon]
* Wherein Kelly Ayotte tries to delicately dance around the issue of endorsing Donald Trump while still being a good Republican soldier. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.15.16
* This is why Merrick Garland will still be Hillary Clinton’s choice for the Supreme Court. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Robot lawyer looking to solve the problem of homelessness. [Slate]
* Justice Sotomayor explains what it takes to be a good judge. [News Minor]
* Advice for lawyers seeking a position in Hillary Clinton’s administration. [Law and More]
* On the constitutionality of the Supreme Court hearing court-martial appeals. [Just Security]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.12.16
* Conservative legal scholars generally favor Clinton with the power to nominate jurists over Trump. Losers! Pathetic! [Huffington Post]
* After securing a law degree, a masters, and a PhD, this woman also became Great Britain’s most successful female Olympian. [Legal Cheek]
* A judge explains why she finds criminal court horrifying. [VICE]
* Litigate every week like it’s Shark Week. [Lowering the Bar]
* I never really thought about how I referred to law school professors, but this raises some interesting questions about the process. [PrawfsBlawg]
* Following up on the Supreme Court clerks of 2006. Of the four justices of the Supreme Court’s right-wing, how many female clerks can you spot? [Excess of Democracy]
* Wonder Woman’s immigration fraud. [Law and the Multiverse]
* Counterpunch reviews Len: A Lawyer In History (affiliate link) about the life and times of leftist criminal defense lawyer Leonard Weinglass. [Counterpunch]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.11.16
* More cases are working their way up to the Supreme Court to define a religiously affiliated employer’s obligations to its employees. [Rewire]
* Is there a particular formula for getting yourself a coveted Supreme Court clerkship? [Empirical SCOTUS]
* The conservative interpretation of the Second Amendment has been prelude to Donald Trump’s veiled assassination “joke.” [Slate]
* Is criminal sentencing about to go all precog in this country? [FiveThirtyEight]
* Yes, even liberals can commit sexual assault. [The Slot]
* Remember — these pages and pages of redactions were probably done by some poor contract attorney trying to make a living. [Gawker]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.10.16
* “NEW CIVILITY WATCH: Dem Senate candidate and former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland: Scalia’s death ‘happened at a good time.'” [Instapundit]
* A Skull and Bones society for top NYC law firms? Professor Rick Swedloff discusses a secretive group whose membership includes some of Biglaw’s biggest names. [SSRN]
* A notable new petition (filed by Professor Orin Kerr and Marcia Hofmann) in a high-profile appeal about the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Donald Trump’s infamous “Second Amendment” quip is protected by the First Amendment — but just barely, according to Professor Noah Feldman. [Bloomberg View via How Appealing]
* Jury consultant Roy Futterman of DOAR wonders: is concern about prejudicing jurors actually driving them to using the internet for decision-making? [Big Law Business]
* Could the ABA someday lose its power to accredit law schools? Steven J. Harper thinks its day of reckoning is coming closer. [The Belly of the Beast]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.09.16
* Did Cadwalader make the wrong move in canceling its summer program? [Law and More]
* The American Bar Associate needs to embrace change or be “left in the dust,” ABA executive director Jack Rives declared at the organization’s annual meeting. [ABA Journal]
* If your legal practice includes international arbitration, get ready to head to India. The Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA) begins proceedings this month and hopes to attract corporations as a popular arbitration destination. [Forbes]
* The Paul, Weiss investigation into Roger Ailes that has grown in scope is uncovering all manner of interesting tidbits about the cable news giant. [Vanity Fair]
* Looking to elevate your Foreign Corrupt Practices Act skillz? [FCPA Professor]
* How did this Supreme Court Term fare in terms of transparency? [Fix the Court]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.08.16
* Does the future of transgender rights go through the Supreme Court? [Constitution Daily]
* There’s been a lot of chatter about it, but what do the rules say about the scenario of Donald Trump dropping out of the presidential race? [WSJ Law Blog]
* The Olympics is great fun for nationalism, but there is a dark side behind it, as Professor Ilya Somin explains. Here is one idea to do away with that. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* The latest on what went on behind closed doors at Fox during Roger Ailes’s reign. [Law and More]
* In-house lawyer Suleen Lee, general counsel to The Barre Code, gives new meaning to “character and fitness.” [Chicago Lawyer]
* Law professors in defense of the working legal standard in campus rape cases. [Huffington Post]
* Shearman & Sterling partner Richard Hsu interviews leading legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin, author of the new book American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst (affiliate link). [Hsu Untied]
* And Randy Maniloff of Coverage Opinions interviews legendary law professor Arthur Miller. [Law.com]
* Congrats to Orrick’s D.C. associates on more than doubling their contribution to Legal Aid’s Generous Associates Campaign this year! [Orrick]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.05.16
* Josh Duggar’s problems continue: he is being sued by the guy whose pic he used in his Ashley Madison profile. [Jezebel]
* Republican statehouses have been doing what they can to make Chief Justice John Roberts look dumb. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]
* Zika might be changing American opinions on abortion. [Slate]
* Olympic scandal! Moroccan Olympic boxer arrested for sexual assault. [Huffington Post]
* NRA v. Police: Why open carry laws make policing difficult. [Salon]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.04.16
* Jason Greenblatt, an NYU Law grad, is Donald Trump’s chief Israel advisor; so what if he is a real estate lawyer and has no foreign policy experience? Trump has no political experience, and now he’s the GOP standard bearer. [Politico]
* The Paul, Weiss investigation into Roger Ailes has allegedly grown in scope. [Law and More]
* Apparently you can be suspended from legal practice for sexting — well, if the sexts are unwanted and sent to a client. [Legal Profession Blog]
* A look at the Supreme Court’s historic disregard for black lives. [Huffington Post]
* An eight-member Court is really putting a crimp in SCOTUS’s style. [Empirical SCOTUS]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.03.16
* What, exactly, did it take for Donald Trump to
evadeavoid the draft? [PrawfsBlawg]* The Supreme Court just temporarily blocked a court order allowing a transgender teen to use the bathroom according to their identity. [CNN]
* Just in time for your $180K scale… Eric Schneiderman loses a talking point, and New Yorkers can all go back to making a killing at DraftKings. [Associated Press]
* FBI arrests DC law enforcement officer for helping ISIS. If he was as good a terrorist as DC is at policing, then maybe we should have left him out there. [ABC News]
* The battle over tougher bar passage standards rages on. [WSJ Law Blog]
* And the Tim Kaine love letter about law school. [ABA Journal]
* A good website really is key to a thriving, modern law practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* The ten-year anniversary of the tragic murder of Robert Wone. [Who Killed Robert Wone?]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.02.16
* Remember that Donald Trump tell-all from a former lawyer? Does the piece violate rules against the disclosure of privileged information? [New York Personal Injury Blog]
* Judge Jed Rakoff slams consumer consent to arbitration agreements as a “legal fiction.” [Law360 (sub. req.)]
* According to a HUD report, a New Orleans judge is running a home for the elderly and disabled with “dangerous health and safety risks.” [NOLA.com]
* Advice on prepping for an oral argument. [Lawyerist]
* Canadian Supreme Court justices are going to be chosen in an all new way. [The Star]
* Field-administered drug tests are not as reliable as the criminal justice system would like you to believe. [Guile is Good]
* Stuff lawyers say.
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.01.16
* An in-depth look at the 2016 cert petitions that have been granted, and those still pending. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* Ballerina Misty Copeland got married to a lawyer, Olu Evans. [People]
* Remember how awful forced arbitration clauses have gotten? The Center for Justice & Democracy at New York Law School is doing something about it in the financial services sector. [Center JD]
* Hope you aren’t expecting any good news related to attorneys and addiction issues, because there isn’t much. [Forbes]
* How is the practice of law evolving? [Prism Legal]
* One of Donald Trump’s former attorneys really doesn’t think you should vote for him. [Huffington Post]
* Nick Denton filed for personal bankruptcy. [Law and More]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.29.16
* You know who no one talked about at that convention? Merrick Garland. Here’s a theory as to why… [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* Steven Avery is not pleased with Dean Strang and Jerry Buting and he’s got a handwritten screed about it. [USA Today]
* Law professor has bats in her belfry. [Tax Prof Blog]
* Jury nullification in the murder of Bruce Banner. [The Legal Geeks]
* Professor Orly Lobel on the prisoner’s dilemma of reporting sexual harassment. [Fortune]
* This is how easily a Supreme Court vacancy is handled in a civilized country. [Legal Cheek]
* French court says Lockout was plagiarized from Escape From New York. I thought it was a little suspicious that Lockout followed the adventures of Lizard Flissken. [io9]
* What is the proper choice of law for space crimes? Um, pretty sure it’s Judge Dredd, but you write up your little piece anyway. [Seeker]
* Becoming addicted to Biglaw power. [Law and More]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 07.28.16
* Using legal technology to help low-income Americans get legal services. [Law360]
* A legal analysis of the Donald Trump’s possible relationship with Russia that has sparked a lot of debate recently. [Lawfare]
* Miss South Dakota, a knife and fee sharing — this attorney suspension has everything but the kitchen sink. [Legal Profession Blog]
* The factors that undermine the reliability of drug field testing. [Katz Justice]
* New networking opportunity? [Law and More]