Non-Sequiturs

* A look back on this noteworthy Supreme Court term. Conservatives started the term with such high hopes, but those were dashed after the death of Justice Scalia. [Jost on Justice]

* More Perfect, a podcast bringing the stories behind the highest court in the land to life. [RadioLab]

* Review of the new book (affiliate link) that posits the Supreme Court’s move to the right began with the Berger Court. [Washington Independent]

* Yay! You can sing “happy birthday” in public! Thank you plaintiffs’ bar! [TMZ]

* Remember lawyers, clients are there for you to take care of, not the other way around. [Katz Justice]

* Got a parking ticket? Maybe this robot lawyer can take care of it for you. [The Mirror]

* An excellent source for in-house lawyers, and yes, it’s free. Unless You Ask: A Guide For Law Departments to Get More From External Relationships [Association of Corporate Counsel]

* Someone disagrees with Judge Posner’s take on the role of law professors. [Law and More]

* When a judge doesn’t want the prosecutor to prosecute the case in which she is the victim because she fears she will not get a fair trial, we all lose. [NOLA.com]

* An earlier predictor on how investors are harming homeowners. [Wise Law]

* Was this Supreme Court term a rousing success for the liberal justices? If you count ties, then yes. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* 7 ways Brexit will impact Biglaw. [Law.com]

* A new book — Professor William Birdthistle’s Empire of the Fund (affiliate link), an exposé of how we save for retirement — is summarized in this fun video inspired by Hamilton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3WxNAAgTMI

* An article advocating why we should prioritize free expression over intellectual property laws, and why the Led Zeppelin case is important. [Katz Justice]

* Gay marriage is legal, but that doesn’t mean it is easy for gay couples to have children. [Esquire]

* The best tips for dealing with bar exam stress. [Law.com]

* Why is it that conversations about the future of legal education turn into flame wars? [Medium]

* Evidence now suggests that the murder of Dan Markel was the second attempt on his life. [Tallahassee.com]

* Looking for a new job, or even a new career? Some great advice. [Law and More]

* The real hidden cost to Brexit? Brits can’t look down their nose on dumb Americans anymore. [New Yorker]

* A deep dive into Justice Thomas’s dissents this term. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Without Justice Scalia, Supreme Court outcomes are a lot more difficult to predict. [The Guardian]

* A definitive list of portmanteaus for countries thinking of leaving the EU. Portugo. Beljump. Czech-Off. I love these. [Quartz]

* Federal court orders preliminary injunction in favor of transgender bathroom rights. [Buzzfeed]

* What goes into making a Biglaw brand? [Law and More]

* Kicking your procrastination habit and becoming a productive law student. [Law School Toolbox]

* A “frustrating” and “heartbreaking” decision: U.S. v. Texas. [Friend of the Immigrant]

* Latham partner, Abid Qureshi, is being vetted for a seat on the D.C. district court. [Law.com]

* David Lat’s take on surviving in the digital age. [Infinite Spada]

* New Mexico is totally cool with putting a bunch of restrictions on judges using social media. [New Mexico Appellate Law Blog]

* In the merger between LinkedIn and Microsoft, Wilson Sonsini (LinkedIn’s counsel) left their fingerprints all over the agreement. [Big Law Business]

* If the legislative body you’re a part of refuses to get down to business, I guess this is what you have to do. Rep. John Lewis is leading a sit-in on the House floor to force a vote on gun control. [Slate]

* Council on American-Islamic Relations Action Network might be held liable for someone pretending to be a lawyer. [Legal Profession Blog]

* Polygamous Mormon sect leader Lyle Jeffs is on the run, after being put on house arrest as he awaited trial for food-stamp fraud and money laundering. According to his half-brother, “Blame the judge for this. Everybody knew that he was going to do this. Everybody.” [Jezebel]

* Proposed law to stop the ‘Brock Turner Problem.’ [Huffington Post]

* ATL columnist Jeena Cho is featured in ALM’s “STEM Cells” series. [CodeX]

* The details behind the Trump campaign’s non-disclosure agreements. [Associated Press]

* Make sure you are getting paid for the legal work you are doing. [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* A deep dive into the Supreme Court coalitions for dissents. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Your daily dose of lawyer jokes. [JSTOR]

* Podcast with author James B. Stewart, New York Times best-selling author of Den of Thieves, about Wall Street arbitrageur Ivan Boesky and junk-bond king Michael Milken. [Hsu Untied]

* Donald Trump has been hanging out with McCarthy-era lawyer Roy Cohn. What does that mean for the candidate? [Katz Justice]

* $180,000 goes a lot further outside of New York. [Law and More]

* Does your schedule already include three summer lunches this week? Here’s how to avoid packing on the pounds. [Corporette]

* Judicial overload in federal courts in South Carolina is getting out of hand. [Greenville Online]

* A look at how the Jones Day brand might be hurting. [Law and More]

* Taking the abstraction out of the homelessness problem. [Guile is Good]

* That New York Times article about Valpo Law School is creating a lot of buzz. [TaxProf Blog]

* An in-depth look at the sad story of Biglaw partners who were de-equitized. [Law360]

* A plea to strike down Mississippi’s “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” which gives special privileges to opponents of gay marriage. [Bloomberg View]

* Not every litigation financier is Peter Thiel, and I think we are all pretty happy about that. [Wall Street Journal]

* What can Judge Maryanne Trump Barry teach her brother about the federal judiciary? [Real Clear Politics]

* Musings on why some law firms still haven’t matched the Cravath pay bump. [Law and More]

* These are the facts people need to know about gun laws. [Slate]

* This is what estate planning attorneys wished you knew about death and dying. [Forbes]

* Superfans of Seinfeld will remember the Michigan bottle scam, wherein Kramer and Newman try to return bottles to Michigan for the 10 cent deposit. Apparently, that’s a felony punishable by up to 5 years in prison, as this poor sap is learning the hard way. [11 Points]

* Intelligence Squared is circulating a petition to fix the presidential debate. They want to see robust policy discussions not gotcha questions… maybe this’d work if Donald Trump weren’t one of the candidates. [Change.org]

* You need to take care of yourself in order to fight the legal battles that need to be fought. [Katz Justice]

* Now that the D.C. Circuit has upheld the FCC’s right to enforce net neutrality, what will the Supreme Court do about it? [Slate]

* Has the fact that there are only 8 justices on the Supreme Court affected its cert rate? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* U.S. District Judge David Godbey ruled, no, Texas, you can’t sue the federal government over Syrian refugees. [Huffington Post]

* Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) is leading a filibuster to demand Congress actually act on gun control. Many Democrats and Republican Senator Pat Toomey have all spoken on the issue. [Slate]

* Music is the first order of business in a copyright trial — well, when the subject of the complaint is Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, it is. [Courthouse News Service]

* An analysis of the role of a human rights worker. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Gawker is under more legal threats, this time for writing an article about Donald Trump’s hair. [Law and More]

* But Nick Denton assures us, despite legal threats and filing for bankruptcy, the business will be just fine. [Gawker]

* So, you lucky associate you, expect a bit of extra cash this summer? Here’s how you should be spending it. [American Lawyer]

* Chris Christie allegedly took document preservation tips from Dick Nixon. [WNYC]

* DLA Piper looks to join the ranks of employing droids, announcing a new partnership with Kira Systems to produce an AI tool for conducting due diligence. [DLA Piper]

* Oh, the stupid things law schools do. Like how a bunch of Touro 3Ls are ineligible to sit for the bar exam this summer… [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* Bands from Google Legal, Kirkland & Ellis, Lieff Cabraser, Simpson Thacher, Kazan Law, and Morgan Lewis are competing in a Battle of the Bands at 1015 Folsom nightclub tomorrow night in San Francisco in support of The Family Violence Appellate Project. [Family Violence Appellate Project]

* M&A is having a pretty good 2016. [Fortune]

* “The Scrooge Effect” for Biglaw firms that refuse to give pay raises to their associates. [Law and More]

* The previously lost Marx Brothers musical, “I’ll Say She Is,” is currently playing at the Connelly Theater in the East Village. And it stars, Kathy Biehl a practicing New Jersey and Texas lawyer. [I’ll Say She Is]

* The Supreme Court’s support for the death penalty is waning; how may this lead to further reform in the future? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* This tool can help solos and small firms address one of their biggest concerns. [Now Counsel Network]

* When lawyer pranks go too far it could earn you a 30-day suspension from the Delaware Supreme Court. [Legal Profession Blog]

* This is incredibly depressing — a timeline of pleas to increase gun control after mass shootings. [Slate]

* U.S. District Judge Richard Jones has blocked the city of Seattle from releasing information the FBI says may jeopardize ongoing investigations. [Associated Press]

* Lawsuits matter: in the wake of the $140 million verdict against it in the Hulk Hogan sex tape case, Gawker Media is filing for bankruptcy and putting itself up for sale. [Gawker]

* Declaratory judgment: according to Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Judging Statutes (affiliate link), by fellow feeder judge Robert Katzmann, is “a pleasure to read,” “succinct,” and “educational.” [Harvard Law Review]

* SCOTUS sez: a judge shouldn’t hear an appeal in a death penalty case that he worked on as a prosecutor. [How Appealing]

* Speaking of the Supreme Court, Gabe Roth of Fix the Court makes the case in favor of mandatory retirement for the justices. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]

* Worst fellow airplane passenger ever (yes, even worse than the drunken law firm partner). [U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit]

* 9 “Musts” for Privacy & Data Security Risk Management and Compliance. [Legaltech News]

* Justice Thomas calls a woman a "venireman." First of all, say what you will about PC language policing of generic terms, but when "juror" is available, you consciously chose to be a sexist. Plus, the proper term is veniretrix. [Clear Writing] * The pay raises on this of the Atlantic are helping our legal brethren on the other side too. [Legal Cheek] * Best. Press release. Ever. Nicely played, Nancy Pelosi. [Wonkette] * These are the law firms that GCs actually recommend to their friends. [Law360] * Read Joe Biden's moving letter to the survivor of the Stanford rape. [Buzzfeed]

* Everyone wants to know which Biglaw firms aren’t moving up their pay scale. [Law and More]

* The SEC announced two non-prosecution agreements involving Nortek and Akamai Technologies over alleged FCPA violations, but don’t believe the hype. [FCPA Professor]

* Law school alums get suuuuper testy when those institutions turn around and ask for donations. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]

* Why has the Supreme Court has been so slow to make decisions at the end of this Term? Does that hurt their popularity? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* Yikes, proof that student loans actually backfire and make people worse off. [Tax Prof Blog]

* David Lat talking all the details of the newly minted Cravath pay scale. [CNBC]

* Not much else to do but stare at this headline in horror: “Florida AG asked Trump for donation before nixing fraud case.” [Associated Press]

* This is the lawyer standing between hackers and prison, and yes, he is a Deadhead. [Buzzfeed]

* What’s up with this law professor getting the cold shoulder from the Department of Justice? [FCPA Professor]

* Don’t lose your opportunity to connect with judges and jurors. [Katz Justice]

* Donald Trump may not like Judge Gonzalo Curiel, but Trump’s lawyer disagrees. [Yahoo]

* Opportunities don’t walk up and tap you on the shoulder. Here’s how to find the opportunities you need to build your practice. [Reboot Your Law Practice]

* Not your most typical legal job: the life of a PETA lawyer. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Joe Scarborough has weighed in on Donald Trump’s statement about Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage. For the record, the former Republic Congressman thinks “[i]t’s completely racist.” [Politico]

* Based on comments Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have made, what will our next Supreme Court justice be like? [Empirical SCOTUS]

* They may hate him, but with the perspective of three years, it is clear Edward Snowden actually helped the legal intelligence community. [Lawfare]

* Donald Trump “fought back” against Elizabeth Warren, saying she made a “quick killing” in real estate after the economic downturn, but what do you know? Facts suggest otherwise (namely that she bought real estate in Oklahoma to help her family and their construction business). [Washington Post]

* You can win an early copy of The Curve, a brand new novel by Jeremy Blachman and Cameron Stracher, about a corrupt Trump University-style law school. They’ve set up a website for the fake law school in the book, and would love readers to check it out and submit their own worst law school story for a chance to win an advance copy. [Manhattan Law School]

* Who knows what the composition of the Court will be like when they hear it, but the Supreme Court will take on another racial gerrymandering case. [Election Law Blog]

* The D.C. Disciplinary Counsel took seven years to pass judgment on an administrative law judge who sued a dry cleaner for $60 million over a pair of pants. [Legal Profession Blog]

* What Muhammad Ali lost when he went to the Supreme Court. [Slate]

* Using the life of a passed appellate attorney as inspiration for practice. [Guile is Good]

* Does a sound legal case exist for indicting Hillary Clinton? [Beck’s Law]

* BuzzFeed turns down cold hard cash over its decision to turn away Trump for President ads. [Buzzfeed]

* The “Gig Economy” — things are only getting worse for adjunct professors. [Law and More]

* On the importance of having your criminal clients dressed for court, not for jail. [Katz Justice]

* An eight-justice Supreme Court has inspired some fanfic! No, there aren’t any group sex scenes, it isn’t that kind of fanfic. [Medium]

* A group of law professors have now joined Massholes in supporting Tom Brady’s Hail Mary for a Second Circuit rehearing. [Profootball Talk]

* We need to protect the free speech rights of teachers too. [Bloomberg View]

* A Trump presidency will threaten the rule of law, at least according to a bunch of libertarian legal scholars. [New York Times]

* Florida banned Medicaid patients from using Planned Parenthood, and now PP is fighting back in court. [Slate]

* There seems to be more legal bad news for Uber. [Law and More]

* Ammon and Ryan Bundy still don’t think the rules apply to them, even when they are in jail. [Huffington Post]

* If only all court filings were as easy as The Onion imagines they could be… Maybe with the next Apple update. [The Onion]

* Fascinating, and maybe just a bit unsettling for those that’ve gotten inked: how law enforcement is using biometric technology in tattoo identification. [Electronic Frontier Foundation]

* Are the members of the Supreme Court getting bored waiting for a ninth justice? [Slate]

* The true story of how a small, informal lawyer listserv got recognized by the Supreme Court. [New York Personal Injury Blog]

* New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, isn’t mincing words when it comes to Trump University, calling it a “straight up fraud.” [Huffington Post]

* Don Verrilli is retiring, here’s a look at the Solicitor General’s role and success in generating petition grants when he (and his office) recommends them. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* A Black Lives Matter activist was convicted on for “attempting to unlawfully remove a suspect from police officers” in a move some have criticized as an attempt to chill lawful protests. [Gawker]

* Will wearing makeup increase your earning potential? (Yes, they only mean for women, the patriarchy is a real bitch like that.) [Corporette]

* Ken Starr says he is resigning from his position as Baylor chancellor “as a matter of conscience.” Yup, he still plans on teaching at the law school. [ESPN]

* Donald Trump’s terrible comments about Judge Gonzalo Curiel are all part of a branding exercise. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw is fighting to make people remember the women killed by police. #SayHerName [The Guardian]

* The cleanup after a storm can be even more challenging than weathering the storm in the first instance. [Katz on Justice]

* Has Election 2016 convinced you our electoral system is hopelessly broken? Here are the best ways to fix it. [Brennan Center for Justice]

* Reflections from Richard Levick on Peter Thiel v. Gawker (including commentary from our very own David Lat). [Forbes]