* Congratulations to Marc Randazza, ATL’s counsel in Jones v. Minkin, on another successful representation. [The Legal Satyricon]

* Speaking of free speech, is a college acting unconstitutionally by banning so-called “empty-holster protests”? [Courthouse News Service]

* Maryland bar exam results are out. Congrats to all who passed! [Maryland State Board of Law Examiners]

* In the wake of the Maine vote, is there such a thing as “Gay Apartheid”? [Transracial]

* Remember the Notre Dame 1L impersonator? He may be “weird and unethical,” but he didn’t break any laws. [WNDU]

* The ATL running group will be meeting tomorrow (Saturday) at 10 a.m., at the East River 6th Street track. All are welcome. [Above the Law]

* Did I miss the part where beating your wife became a civil right? [Double X]

* The Anonymous Lawyer opines on Biglaw bonuses. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Justice Antonin Scalia will be speaking at Ohio State. Any chance he’s looking for clerks? [Moritz College of Law]

* Stealing court documents in plain sight. [The Victorious Opposition]

* Why does Facebook hate pregnant women? [Gothamist]

* Anyone wondering why Carrie Prejean abruptly settled her suit with the Miss America people? It’s pretty hot, or horrible, I can’t decide. [TMZ]

* Defending free speech requires one to defend some pretty annoying junk. [Underdog]

* Have you ever been framed by a prosecutor? [Bad Lawyer]

* An openly pagan Republican lawyer won a city council seat last night. In the words of Winston Zeddmore: “I love this town.” [Double X]

* I don’t think you should be called a super lawyer unless you have an alter ego of some kind. [Tax Prof Blog]

* David Lat on the joys of blogging. He shares some good advice for people just starting out. [Blackbook Legal]

* And as Marin explains, legal writing can be a decent way out of Biglaw. You know, so long as you don’t mind having an apartment like mine that resembles a spider hole. [TechnoLawyer]

* I wish I had read this post before I voted this morning. [What About Clients?]

* Gay marriage activists are outing the names of those who stand opposed to gay rights. Good political strategy or straight up intimidation? [True/Slant]

* New Wachtell partners. Congratulations boys, enjoy your fabulous wealth. [Am Law Daily]

* Lawsuits against Deloitte have come back from the dead. [Going Concern]

* To be clear, if any group is getting “screwed” by affirmative action it is rich Asians. [Tax Prof Blog]

* The Bogeyman cometh to Blawg Review. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog via Blaw Review]

* “Beckner represents exactly the kind of cop that should be stripped of his badge, covered in s*** and bees, and then rolled off a cliff in a shopping cart.” But, tell me what you really think of officer Beckner? [The Legal Satyricon]

* Will work for food free. [Craigslist]

* An argument against privatizing prisons? [New York Times]

* County jail doesn’t sound so great either. [Ann Arbor Chronicle via Daily Kos]

* For the iPhone obsessed. [Business Insider]

* Nothing like a Justice Stevens podcast to get you through a marathon. [Concurring Opinions]

* Looking for a new reason to hate on Goldman Sachs? [McClatchy Newspapers]

* Baby monitors can be used for good or for evil. [Chicago Tribune]

* Somebody call up the Cornell School of Hotel Administration and get them to teach their people how travelers actually use computers. [Drug and Device Law]

* Police can search your email without telling you. Bring it on coppers, bring it on. [True/Slant]

* If your Biglaw career has stalled, maybe you should become a CPA. [Going Concern]

* An Indiana law school dean is getting pushed out because he is too old. Peyton Manning, welcome to your future. [Law Librarian Blog]

* Is a globally integrated law firm that provides one-stop shopping still a viable business model? I don’t know, Wal-Mart seems to be doing just fine. [Ideoblog]

* I didn’t know water intoxication existed. It doesn’t sound nearly as fun as regular intoxication. [ABA Journal]

* Don’t forget to come down and poke me with sticks meet me in Atlanta on Monday. [Georgia Association for Women Lawyers]

* TP-ing is still an effective deterrent. [Going Concern]

* Could getting braces hurt a 1L’s job prospects? It’s hard to say, since there are no jobs for 1Ls anyway. [Corporette]

* Proskauer partner Jon Oram, a rising star of the sports law bar (and Lat’s law school classmate), was heavily involved in the sale of the Chicago Cubs. Oram’s a Yankees fan, so maybe some of that winning karma will rub off on Chicago’s lovable losers. [National Law Journal]

* Why is Shyne wearing an HLS T-shirt? [Baller Status]

* Is the 7th Circuit the coolest? [Blackbook Legal]

* Can you get in trouble for saying that creationism is religious, superstitious nonsense? [Bell & Bar]

* Body shots taken a bit too far. [Litination]

* Are bankers even more narcissistic than lawyers? Consider the evidence. [Dealbreaker]

* No, Justice Scalia did not say he would have dissented in Brown v. Board of Education. [Balkinization]

* Of course, “[t]he misrepresentation of Scalia’s remarks went viral almost instantly, which is the way things go these days.” [Althouse]

* Patterico slaps around Scott Glover of the L.A. Times for Glover’s slanted coverage of a recent Third Circuit decision clearing Chief Judge Alex Kozinski (9th Cir.) of wrongdoing. [Patterico’s Pontifications]

* Justice Sonia Sotomayor, photographed by Annie Leibovitz for the pages of Vogue? Be still my heart! [Memo Pad / Women’s Wear Daily]

* “Too many people practice law who should not. Practicing law is hard.” Ain’t that the truth? [What About Clients?]

* Is it legal to kick out Redskins fans at the Redskins game for voicing their considerable displeasure with the Redskins? I guess it depends on if the fans have hired Quinn Emanuel. [D.C. Sports Blog]

* Even though the GAO tied the high cost of law school to competition in the U.S. News rankings, there is still more than enough blame to go around. [Ideoblog]

* Scientologists should have expected the Spanish Inquisition. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Look who’s flinging the poo now. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]

* Listen all y’all it’s a sabotage. [Technolawyer]

* Short stories from John Grisham [Daily Beast]

* An obituary for one person who actually sought justice. [Simple Justice]

* Jeff Sesssions, ranking member fn the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other legal luminaries will be speaking in D.C. tomorrow about how to reform our profession. [Legal Reform Summit]

* If you are a fan of ESPN’s Bill Simmons (a.k.a. The Sports Guy), you’ll note that I steal from him he inspires me. I’ll be at Professor Thom’s tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. for the Bill Simmons book signing. If you’d like to meet him (or me! or the Fashionista editors!) please stop by. [Bill Simmons Book Tour]

* You never know when your Halloween costume will come back to haunt you. [Siouxsie Law]

* Anti-blasphemy laws make Jesus cry. [Overlawyered]

* Hey, we’re in the middle of a recession. If you really want to avoid legal pitfalls, hire a lawyer. Please. [Double XX]

* Note to traffic cops: driving while not being able to speak English is not a crime. Not even in Texas. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Oh criminal conspiracy laws that mock common sense with reckless joy. Long may they reign. [Legally Unbound]

* I think I’m at the point where if I called the cops myself I wouldn’t say anything to them once they arrived. I would just hope that they figured out for themselves the nature of the crime I called them to prevent/investigate. [Underdog]

* A tangled web links the SDNY U.S. Attorney’s office with the bottom of a pool in Florida. [Main Justice]

* If Gawker was written by Percy Fitzwallace I believe they would have responded to Joanne Lipman with this line: “I’ve got some real, honest-to-God battles to fight, Leo. I don’t have time for the cosmetic ones.” [Gawker via Law and More]

* Does R.E.M. have a copyright infringement claim against the government if their music was used to torture Guantanamo detainees? What if R.E.M. was simply used to give the interrogators a blueprint on how to torture somebody? That’s me in the corner, that’s me in the spotlight, losing my religion. [The Volokh Conspiracy]

* Gibson Dunn is joining Pepin Tuma to battle police abuse of disorderly conduct laws. I’d make a joke about cops now, but I’m in the privacy of my own home and I don’t want to tempt any officers to come in here and arrest me. [Huffington Post]

* Parents in Las Vegas don’t want their children to perform a version of Rent as a school play. You live in Las Vegas and you’re worried about what a Bohemian musical is going to do to your kids? That’s like living in Mississippi and wondering if Jackass: The Movie is going to make your kids dumb. [Legally Unbound]

* You know what, screw first time home buyers. What about longtime home renters? Where’s our tax credit? [Blackbook Legal]

* It’s been a good day for jokes about male reproductive organs. [Courtoons]

* Kanye West managed to keep his mouth shut long enough to have his vandalism charge dismissed. [Popsquire]

* Iowa Supreme Court is asking for 50 hours of pro bono work from the state’s attorneys. I wonder if the Court would consider asking Iowa state law schools to forgo a semester of law school tuition? [Gazette Online]

* “Secretary with benefits.” Oh yeah. [Legal Blog Watch]

* Do you think anybody is going to run against Obama from his left? Matt Taibbi imagines a Harvard Law School challenger. [True/Slant]

* What’s the best credential to have as a sports agent, a J.D. or an M.B.A.? [Sports Agent Blog]

* How many docs can you review per hour? [Young Lawyers Blog]

* When Bar Examiners screw up. [New York Personal Injury Law Blog]

* I’ll go with whatever theory of economic development makes me a better engine first. [The Volokh Conspiracy]

* A quick note for husbands worried about the Brooke Hundleys in their lives: keep it in your pants. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Blackwater lawyers are asking for protection. [Politico]

* The police really need to stop going after people who are minding their own business in their own home. [wTop]

* I’m on a list with Jay-Z and Tyra Banks. That’s pretty cool, but I really want to hook up with Harvard economist Roland Fryer to carry the “Student Loan Bailout” message to the next level. [The Root 100]

* This guy’s obsessive running could be why he’s “of counsel” instead of a partner. [True/Slant]

* How much would you pay to stop plagiarism? How much do you think your professor would pay? [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]

* Maybe Biglaw isn’t dying. It’s just in a malaise. [Ideoblog]

* A great piece on the Mark Levy tragedy. [ABA Journal]

* A Las Vegas legal celebrity sighting: Can Attorney General Eric Holder make it rain in the club? [Main Justice]

* Professor Ann Althouse weighs in on the Obama Administration’s new approach to marijuana prosecutions. [Althouse]

* Additional proof that S&C’s Rodge Cohen is God. [Am Law Daily]

* Is the boundary between insider trading and legitimate market research fuzzier than some might think? [Professor Bainbridge]

* When our toilets are unclean, we blame Dealbreaker. [Gawker]

* People are still responding to the Quinn Emanuel Check BlackBerry Always situation. I have one question for those addicted to BlackBerry usage. How long do you wait to check your device after intercourse? [Josh Blackman’s Blog]

* Everybody who thinks Santa Claus works at their law firm, please raise your hands. GUARDS! Arrest these clinically insane associates before they cause harm to themselves or others. [TechnoLawyer]

* “The world, unfortunately, is much like a playground at a third-rate junior high school in a mixed neighborhood.” [What About Clients?]

* I used to decorate my law firm office with inspirational messages like “You didn’t want to make partner anyway,” and “You’ll survive the jump from the window, so you’ll just end up working remotely from the hospital.” But I’ve never had a flair for interior design. [Litination]

* It’s conflict resolution week at Blawg Review. “I, Elie Mystal, do hereby resolve to seek out conflicts be they big or small, whether they involve me directly or not. And I resolve to do all of this without allowing conflicting emotions to sway me from my conflict starting agenda.” [Settle It Now via Blawg Review]

* Massachusetts’s treasurer says the state can’t afford a new public law school. [Boston Globe]

* Organized crime is infiltrating law schools in the Czech Republic. This would never happen in New Jersey! [Blackbook Legal]

* Microsoft’s General Counsel, Paramount’s General Counsel, and the VP of MySpace talk about funding professional content in the modern age. [IP Colloquium]

* Sorry UVA Law, but Professor Bainbridge will be staying at UCLA Law. I promise, I had nothing to do with it. This is all on UCLA Law Dean Mike Schill — who is of course leaving UCLA Law to go for Chicago. [Professor Bainbridge]

* Don’t ask, don’t tell, doesn’t seem to want to go away. [Miss Trials]

* There’s one thing that every lawyer thought when they first heard about Balloon Boy. [Law and More]

* Rush Limbaugh was dumped by the group of people looking to purchase the St. Louis Rams. Would the NFL have had a problem with antitrust laws if Dave Checketts hadn’t cashiered him? [Blackbook Legal]

* It appears that the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners put up the results of the bar exam, hosted on a new site, but then yanked the link shortly thereafter. Did somebody call them to inquire? [Virginia Board of Bar Examiners]

UPDATE: Check this list, captured by a reader before the results were removed, to see if you passed.

* Leave Meghan McCain alone. Just leave her alone! [Politico]

* Don’t forget to tell us what — if any — afflictions you’ve suffered during your time in Biglaw. So far the results have been very interesting, and totally depressing. [Above the Law]

* David Lat was on the radio today, talking about the importance of transparency. Click on the link to access the broadcast. [Legal Rebels]

* Here’s all you need to know about this link: Elizabeth Wurtzel, curtains, no rug, “vaginal hegemony.” [Jezebel]

* Never take sex photos you don’t want everybody to see after you break up with the guy. [True/Slant]

* On-campus interviewers are very interested in your answers to “behavioral questions.” I guess they are trying to figure out if you are a drone or a droid. [Young Lawyers Blog]

* Can law firms use the grapevine to their advantage? [Law and More]

* It appears that Jobless Lawyer (we linked there yesterday) is a former associate at Latham & Watkins. Maybe he’ll be an inspiration to all of the former Latham associates? [Legal Blog Watch]

* Alfred Nobel’s grudge against lawyers. [Legally Drawn]

* Lat is doing a call-in program tomorrow at 2 p.m., moderated by Edward Adams of the ABA Journal, entitled “Why Openness & Transparency at Law Firms Matters.” [Legal Rebels / ABA Journal]

* A national, uniform bar exam is being developed. People are wondering if New York and California will sign on, but it seems to me that this will be the perfect excuse for Texas to secede. [Adjunct Law Prof Blog]

* “Customize” your hours and compensation at Thompson & Knight. Hmm … I’ll take the least possible amount of hours for the most possible pay, kthxbye. [Texas Lawyer]

* A laid-off lawyer found work off of Craigslist. No, seriously, real legal work! I mean, he hasn’t gotten the job yet or anything, but there was an interview and everything! [Jobless Lawyer]

* What kind of fringe benefits are there to doing adult entertainment defense? Methinks we need another small law open thread. [Underdog]

* Birther sanctioned. [Washington Independent]

* Thomson Reuters is making some law books available on the Kindle. We are getting close to the time when we are going to need an iKindle PhoneBerry. I’d buy it. [Thomson Reuters]

* The American Law Institute-American Bar Association is hosting a summit that will discuss, in part, critical issues facing legal education providers. I wonder if they’ll talk about how there are too many of them? [ALI-ABA]

* Remember when marrying Christie Brinkley was more of an American dream than a cautionary tale? [Popsquire]

* Is everybody ready for the upcoming Bear Stearns trial? Here’s the pregame information you need to know. [Dealbook]

* In the matter of Jon v. Kate, maybe people don’t have enough sympathy for Jon? I don’t know, China’s “one child” rule looks better and better every day. [Double X]

* With all the talk about increased efficiency in legal services, you’d think that legal services have been ineffectively delivered up until now. [Technolawyer]

* How long should it really take to go from judicial misconduct to judicial apology? [Legally Unbound]

* Did you think my Obama-colored glasses were knocked off when he won the Nobel Peace Prize? [True/Slant]

* Meanwhile, they also give Nobel Prizes for other disciplines. Professor Bainbridge has some thoughts on this year’s winners in economics. [Professor Bainbridge]

* A 24-year-old woman tried to enroll in a high school as a 15-year-old boy. No pictures are available, but I have to assume that was one unattractive 24-year-old woman. [My Law Life]

* A Blawg Review to inspire all the would-be Emperors out there. [Popehat via Blawg Review]