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Non-Sequiturs: 03.25.18
Non-Sequiturs

Non-Sequiturs: 03.25.18

* Brad Karp and Christopher Boehning of Paul, Weiss make the case in favor of stripping gun manufacturers and sellers of their statutory immunity from suit in most negligence and product liability actions. [New York Times]

* Remember the Moonlight Fire case? Ten state AGs have filed an amicus brief in support of the cert petition. [U.S. Supreme Court]

* It's almost time to file your taxes -- and the Supreme Court just made it a little bit easier to cheat on them. [Volokh Conspiracy / Reason]

* In other SCOTUS news, the Court is taking its sweet time in handing down opinions this Term, as Adam Feldman observes. [Empirical SCOTUS]

* And speaking of Adam Feldman, he's now working with SCOTUSblog -- congratulations to both parties! [SCOTUSblog]

* Leading media lawyer Charles Glasser looks at the challenges that corrections pose to the media (both print and digital). [Daily Caller]

* Vineeta Vijayaraghavan points out that gun violence doesn't spare the elite, noting that firearms killed three of her Harvard classmates (including Professor Dan Markel). [USA Today]

* Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics consulting firm, has been widely condemned for its work on the 2016 Trump election campaign -- but it's not clear that its conduct violated data-protection laws or even Facebook policies, according to Tim Pullan of ThoughtRiver. [Artificial Lawyer]

* Professor Michael Dorf remembers lawyer, author, and editor Julie Hilden, who passed away earlier this month. [Dorf on Law]

We’re All Gonna Die — See Also
See Also

We're All Gonna Die -- See Also

IF YOU GO TO THESE LAW SCHOOLS, YOU WON'T PASS THE BAR: But, they might earn you a deferment from whatever war we're about to get into.

DON MCGAHN WANTS OUT OF THIS DOOMED ENTERPRISE: I'm not sure why he should be allowed off this sinking ship, having already done so much to lead us into the iceberg.

TRUMP SAYS HE WANTS A LINE-ITEM VETO: I decided to remind President Trump that the line-time veto has already been ruled unconstitutional, but that's because I forget that he's functionally illiterate.

TIFFANY TRUMP'S BREAKUP: What's the point of dating when the end is so near?

THIS LAW FIRM AD IS FUNNY: Don't show it to John Bolton, though. There are brown people in it that he'll surely try to bomb at some point.

JOIN US FOR TRIVIA AND DRINKS IN D.C.: We're going to be there next Tuesday, which is about as far out as is worth planning these days.

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