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  • Morning Docket: 05.09.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.09.22

    * Goodbye: ABA recommends dropping the LSAT as an admissions requirement. But how will we know who is the next Learned Hand? [NYT]

    * Who cares about the 1st when you have a gun? Trump asked if it was okay to “Just shoot protestors” he didn’t like while he was in office. [NPR]

    * Law school speed run sub 20: South Texas College of Law has just minted its youngest JD. Maybe they finally have the time to watch a few Elden Ring playthroughs. [KHOU]

    * About 60% of Americans think that abortion should be legal federally. That’s larger than the percentage of people that approve of the SCOTUS. I wonder if they are related concepts? [The Hill]

    * Senate will vote on if Roe ought be codified into law on Wednesday. Time to see where our leader’s allegiances lie. [Reuters]

  • Morning Docket: 04.24.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 04.24.22

    * Meaning what you say: Climate change activist self-immolated in front of the Supreme Court on Earth Day. [Independent]

    * Are our founding principles stronger than historical revisionism? This 1st Amendment suit against banning history will let us know. [WCGU]

    * Nixing the 77%: Mississippi now requires that women be paid the same amount as men for the same work. Fanfare aplenty. [ABC News]

    * …And Mississippi is also banning vaccination mandates. Being newsworthy twice in a row counts for something, right? [Clarion Ledger]

    * Three’s Company: Brandeis must be overjoyed about this relapse into old antitrust jurisprudence. [Bloomberg]

  • Morning Docket: 03.31.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 03.31.22

    * Texan student who was threatened with being given a failing grade for not reciting the Pledge of Allegiance earns a lot of lunch money. Gotta love the 1st Amendment. [Chron]

    * Facebook and Apple were so deferential to cops that they gave sensitive information to kids pretending to be them. What happened to two-factor authentication? [Dudes Code]

    * Loan company hit with a million-dollar fine for misleading its clients about loan forgiveness. Stop playing with people’s money! [Business Insider]

    * Pentagon drops a 700+ list of places named after members of the Confederacy they’re considering renaming. About time we stopped handing out participation trophies to the pro-slavery people. [Military]

    * Tennessee is trying to overturn Obergefell. See what you’ve started now, Texas? [LBGTQNation]

  • Morning Docket: 03.18.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 03.18.22

    * In memoriam: A son remembers a legal giant. [The Pulse]

    * Gagging the 1st: 11th Circuit considers the constitutionality of a law that imposes heightened penalties on a class of protesters. [CBS 12]

    * The police are called on Yale students who protested a Federalist Society lecturer. What happened to fighting speech with speech? [New York Post]

    * Texas is locking up folks without filing charges or giving them lawyers. No way this is legal. [The Texas Tribune]

    * Turns out Pepe does not go to the moon: 500k lawsuit follows after an NFT buyers faces the power of ctrl + v. [Notebook Check]

  • Morning Docket: 03.17.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 03.17.22

    * On truth and lies in a legal sense: Ever wonder about politicians fibbing? [NPR]

    * Judge fired pregnant woman 10 days before she was due. Now that’s petty. [WaPo]

    * Three anti-sexual-harassment laws are a prime opportunity to dunk on Cuomo. [NY Post]

    * Stop hitting yourself: Microsoft so focused on preventing theft it labels itself a scammer just to be safe. [Bleeping Computer]

    * Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Not you if the mayor of NY has anything to say about it. [Audacy]

  • Morning Docket: 03.07.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 03.07.22

    * White House condemns Russia’s legal campaign against fake news. [Reuters]

    * Nevertheless, they persisted: More Texans than expected were able to get healthcare access despite SB8’s limitations. [NYT]

    * Washington’s House just approved limitations on gun magazine sizes. Oddly enough, the nerf will not effect Nerf products. [Seattle Times]

    * Six feet! Oregon wants to prevent home buyers from getting a little too personal with their please-sell-us-the-house “love letters.” [USA Today]

    * Long legacy: lawmakers are trying to get rid of a 1950 California Constitution addition meant to keep Black families out of White neighborhoods. [SFGate]