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Admin, Birthdays, Copyright, Intellectual Property, John Paul Stevens, Morning Docket, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Screw-Ups, Sports, Supreme Court, Trademarks
Morning Docket: 04.06.07
[Ed. note: ATL will be on a pretty laid-back publication schedule today. It’s Good Friday, the markets are closed, and many folks are probably traveling for the holiday weekend. We will be posting, but not at our regular pace.] * Stevens’s key role. [USA Today via How Appealing] * Surveillance laws outdated? He’s probably referring […]
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Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: The Final Four
ATL’s March Madness, our quest to crown America’s coolest law school, is entering the home stretch. Please decide which pair of law schools will emerge victorious from the Final Four: Update: The box on the left that says “undefined” used to contain the NYU-Michigan poll. To learn why the poll was pulled, click here. - Sponsored
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Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: Round 2 Results
The real March Madness may be over (and congratulations to the Gators). But ATL March Madness rolls on! Just as in college basketball, upsets are common in ATL March Madness — which is part of what makes it so exciting. None of the top four seeds made it into the third round. To see what […]
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Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: Closing In on the Final Four
If you’re tired of endlessly arguing over which law school is best, we have a suggestion for you: Cast your vote in ATL’s Law School March Madness!!! We’ll close the second round of the tournament on Tuesday, April 3, at 3 PM (Eastern time). The law schools in the lead at that point in time […] -
Crime, Drugs, Morning Docket, Sports
Morning Docket: 03.29.07
* Pitcher Urbina sentenced to 14 years in Venezuelan prison. [ESPN] * Son of N.C. St. coach facing multiple criminal charges. [SI.com] * Barry Bonds’s trainer says he’s “never going to speak” in steroid investigations. [MSNBC Sports] * Nine Bengals have been arrested in the past year, and one of them is Chris Henry. [ESPN] […]
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Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: Law Schools, Round 2 (continued)
(This is a continuation of an earlier post. We’ve broken up the four polls for formatting reasons.) Earlier: ATL March Madness: Law Schools, Round 2 -
Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: Law Schools, Round 2
We just announced the results of ATL March Madness: Round 1. And you know what that means: Round 2! Update: Two of the four polls appear below. For formatting reasons, we are moving the other two polls to a separate post. -
Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: Round 1 Results
The first round of ATL March Madness is over. And we have some exciting results to announce — including a number of big-time upsets. (If we had started the contest just a little bit later, we could have based it on the brand-new U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. But we didn’t, and […] - Sponsored
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Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: When Round 1 Will End
Just a quick administrative announcement about ATL March Madness. You can participate in the tournament, by voting for your favorite law school(s), by clicking here and here. At this early point in the tourney, most match-ups are looking lopsided. The closest ones at the current time are Boalt Hall v. Michigan (Michigan leads, 51-49); Yale […] -
Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: Law Schools, Round 1 (Part 2)
This morning we announced, with much fanfare, the arrival of ATL March Madness: Law Schools. We posted the brackets, which you can review by clicking here, and we opened the polls in one half of the draw. Now we bring you the other half of the tournament. Here’s the first poll, pitting the Midwest against […] -
Contests, Law Schools, Reader Polls, Sports
ATL March Madness: Law Schools, Round 1 (Part 1)
We noticed that you guys enjoy trash talking about rival law schools. And we also realize, despite our general ignorance about sports, that we are now in the midst of “March Madness.” So, as several of you requested, we are introducing a March Madness-inspired feature to ATL. Welcome to ATL MARCH MADNESS: LAW SCHOOLS!!! Here […] -
Alberto Gonzales, D. Kyle Sampson, Department of Justice, Federal Government, Sports, U.S. Attorneys Offices
Kyle Sampson Has A Streaky Three-Point Shot
The U.S. Attorneys firing scandal has claimed its first victim (other than the fired U.S. Attorneys): D. Kyle Sampson Sampson, who served as chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, tendered his resignation on Monday. It was reported that Sampson failed to keep AG Gonzales and other top Justice Department officials in the loop […] -
Art, Email Scandals, Intellectual Property, Non-Sequiturs, Sports, Trademarks, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 03.05.07
* This really could happen to anyone who uses public transportation. Seriously, slow down people — that extra 5 minutes isn’t going to tear off three of your fingers and half your palm, or turn you into a deserving-yet-questionable plaintiff. [Gothamist] * I love it when the art world gets nasty. [New York Sun] * […]
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Anna Nicole Smith, Celebrities, Deaths, Drugs, Guantanamo Bay, Morning Docket, Murder, Racism, Sports
Morning Docket: 02.27.07
* Southern Poverty Law Center’s getting it done. [CNN] * NLJ reports that Camp 6 at Gitmo shows little improvement for cleared prisoners. [Law.com] * Bobby Brown has to stay downtown (until he throws down about nineteen thou’). [CNN] * Barry Bonds won’t cooperate in steroids investigation. [Sportsline] * Anna Nicole Smith’s mom appeals. [CNN]
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Anna Nicole Smith, Anthony Kennedy, Federal Judges, Football, Malpractice, Money, Morning Docket, Sports, Weddings
Morning Docket: 02.15.07
* Lawyer was grand jury leak in BALCO case. [MSNBC] * Justice Kennedy: Pay the judges! [Law.com] * Notre Dame’s Coach Weis testifies in gastric bypass malpractice case. Tom Brady may testify. [CBS Sportsline] * Judge allows burial of Anna Nicole Smith. [MSNBC] * Should you marry a lawyer? [WSJ Law Blog]
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Elena Kagan, Harvard, SCOTUS Potential, Sports, Weirdness
Dean Elena Kagan: Not the Next Harvard President -- But A Talented Coxswain
Our condolences to Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan. Dean Kagan, who was under consideration for the president of Harvard University, was passed over for the job in favor of historian Drew Gilpin Faust (aka “Dr. Faust”). But maybe it’s for the best. As Harvard president, it can be tough not to make enemies. See, […] -
Anna Nicole Smith, Bad Ideas, Crime, Football, Intellectual Property, Iraq, Morning Docket, Sports, Technology
Morning Docket: 02.12.07
* The next great chapter in first-year Contracts: stupid sports bets. [CBS] * What’s a little software piracy between post-Cold War friends, right? [CNN] * Soldiers busted for bribes in Iraq contracts. [MSNBC] * Lawyer takes advantage of that First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances… And it works! [WSJ […]
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Aerobics, John Roberts, Old People, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, Sandra Day O'Connor, SCOTUS, Sports, Supreme Court, William Rehnquist
Justice O'Connor: Retired, But Not Reclusive
Newsweek has an interesting article about retired Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor. The gist of the piece is that even though Justice O’Connor is longer on the Court, she’s still extremely busy. Since her SCOTUS retirement, she has served on the Iraq Study Group, which published its report not too long ago; sat by […] -
Bad Ideas, Copyright, Football, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Intellectual Property, Morning Docket, Sports, Trials, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 02.02.07
* More details constantly emerging from the Scooter Libby trial [CNN] * That Boston duo is out of custody for ATHF ads that caused a bomb scare. They gave a bizarre press conference, insisting on speaking only about ’70s haircuts. One reporter asked, “[Lawyer], are you disappointed by your client’s behavior?” to which the attorney […]
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Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Biglaw, Deaths, Divorce Train Wrecks, Football, Murder, Non-Sequiturs, Prisons, Racism, Religion, Sports, Tobacco / Smoking, Violence
Non-Sequiturs: 02.01.07
* His world may have collapsed, but his lung won’t. [MSN] * They probably weren’t staying together for the kids. [Judicial Reports (third item)] * Some African-American college students are, in fact, just African. Another way to summarize this “finding” is that “Not All [insert color here] People Are the Same” (or, as many a […]