2nd Amendment
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.20.23
* What say the Constitution about “True Threats”? I promise this isn’t a spinoff show about vampires and faeries. [The Daily Beast]
* The folks at Volokh aren’t too happy about how the Supreme Court reads its adequate and state ground doctrine. [Reason]
* You aren’t the only one suspicious that Clarence Thomas did a major rehaul of the 2nd Amendment. [Washington Post]
* If Donald Trump gets charged, it’ll take a while before the process really sets in. Bring a good book. [Reuters]
* A Virginia judge went out of his way to show that he knows the law when it comes to embyos. Slave law. This is 2023. [ABA Journal]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.19.22
* Changes to the gig economy may be impacting your favorite California strip club(s). [Wired]
* Just in case the wage gap isn’t enough, you’ve gotta be aware of the race gap too. [Reuters]
* New York’s AG wants to prevent the sharing of killing spree videos. There probably should have been a law against helping killers get famous ages ago. [Bloomberg Law]
* New San Jose gun law could result in fines for violators. Better mind your Ps and Mac 11s! [MSN]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.06.22
* Boutique firm aims to represent problem clients. Guess they’re taking “everyone deserves representation” seriously. [NBC News]
* New York church sues for right to bring guns into church. Looks like the armor of God just isn’t what it used to be. [WGRZ]
* Law school accidentally accepts 4,000 applicants. Before you ask, this probably isn’t IIED. Still sucks though. [Boston]
* Stanford is experimenting with income sharing! Let’s see how long it takes for other law schools to adopt. [Stanford Daily]
* An internal investigation turned deadly — LAPD officer investigating his four colleagues alleged gang rape was killed during a “training accident”. His lawyer suggests there was foul play. [Complex]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.28.22
* I know there is a lot of money to be made at a law firm, but I’d also think they’d pay attention to laws being broken. [News Leader]
* Baltimore cop caught planting a gun on someone gets less than 2 years. Remember that time they gave a dude life for stealing a pair of gardening shears? Odd, that. [KossyDerrickEnt]
* Rifle law would effect period reenactors. You know what? This may actually be what The Founders™ had in mind by bearing arms! [WHEC]
* Rutgers will be offering a certificate in cannabis law and business. GO RU! [ROI-NJ]
* Some New York teachers are still doing the ol’ beating-other-people’s-children thing. Thankfully, it looks like laws will be changed to curb it. [Times Union]
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Government
Lawmakers Are Absolutely Trying To Prevent An Absolute Right To Gun Ownership
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Government
How The First Amendment Will Protect Us From Our Gun Crisis
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.28.22
* Here’s a map showing the legality of abortion, state by state. [The Guardian]
* Stare decisis? I hardly knew her! [CNN]
* A matter of judgment: Louisiana judge temporarily prevents abortion ban from kicking in. [WDSU]
* States scramble to prevent the 2nd Amendment from being an absolute right. [NYT]
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Who Needs Antitrust To Break Up Major Firms When You Have The Second Amendment?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.02.22
* The proposed solution to school shootings? Stronger doors. We are in the worst timeline. [News4Jax]
* New York aims to stop post-crime shaming. Good on them. [WKTV]
* Tennessee protesters reconsider the ease of gun access. Makes sense after having 17 mass shootings in one week. [WPLN]
* It may be time for a refresher on Heller. Who better to do it than the clerks involved? [NYT]
* Choice Havens: Blue cities in Red states could keep abortion access available. [Axios]
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Courts
Hey, Tyranny People, You Do Realize SCOTUS Just Said It's Okay For The State To Kill Innocent People, Right?
I'd honestly be less salty if their justification was 'Me have gun because pew pew sound cool,' but that's a lot harder to balance out with the whole people-being-murdered-as-a-regular-occurrence thing.
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.12.22
* Unforeseen consequences: The wording of strict anti-abortion laws likely to make IVF illegal too. [The Guardian]
* Glock-19s for teenagers is enshrined in the Constitution, apparently. [AP News]
* Is the right to protest next on the chopping block? [Politico]
* The legal system just works a little differently when you’re a rich former president, I guess. [The Hill]
* Vandy alum give $17.5M to the law school. Now that’s a hell of a tax write-off! [Nashville Post]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 04.21.22
* Irate Policing or Intellectual Property?: Cops play Disney songs on patrol to prevent the public from recording them. [CNN]
* Special lasagna: Newly weds break in their relationship with criminality after dosing their special guests. [CNN]
* Texas and Florida are looking to end tenure. If only this directly impacted a certain professor at Penn. [The Hill]
* SCOTUS may give the ok for people to carry guns on NY trains. I still shudder thinking about Goetz. [Fast Company]
* Its my money and I need cash now!: Seattle law clinic helps workers fight wage theft. [King 5]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.31.22
* GULC’s Black Law Student Association wants Ilya Shapiro’s teaching contract revoked. My only question is, how do you get fired on your day off? [Newsone]
* Swiper, No Swiping! Jersey has new heavy penalties for porch thieves. [UPI]
* Another gun rights case could be headed to the Supreme Court soon if these 25 states get their way. [The Center Square]
* Is recording officer arrests speech? The legality of a law meant to prevent interference with Miami officer’s arrests may be unconstitutional. [Miami Herald]
* An Arizona senator wants to make the state more crypto-friendly by recognizing Bitcoin as legal tender. I’ll give it two weeks before an employee who makes $1500 a week sues for receiving a paycheck below the federal minimum wage because the crypto-market tanks after a spicy Elon tweet. [CryptoPotato]
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Government
Nice Glock. Do You Have Insurance For That?
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.12.22
* SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED! Indiana is a step away from removing a common sense restriction on gun ownership. [Newsweek]
* Florida is looking to pass a 15-week abortion ban. See what you started, Texas? [Politico]
* Missouri police chiefs support a lawsuit that will take a shot at pinning down the meaning of an ambiguous gun law. [STL Today]
* Decisions have been made. Market is open. Giddy is up. Who wants the Broncos?! [Denver Post]
* A former officer sued the Seattle Police Department for firing him because he punched a woman handcuffed in the back of a police car. [Publicola]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.01.21
* In the only country where it is a regular event, the completely unforeseeable 28th school shooting of this year happened in Oxford, Michigan. [NY Times]
* Saying Dr. Fauci has Dr. Mengele vibes is decidedly not the best way to celebrate Hanukkah. I know free speech is important; I just wish news sources were more quiet about it from time to time. [Vanity Fair]
* If Roe v. Wade gets overturned, it’s worth having a battle plan in mind. Here’s a good start. [Scientific American]
* Professor who goes on record saying “Hey! Sex discrimination is pretty good, actually!” proceeds to double down. Definitely won’t be the basis for lawsuits if his female students just happen to have statistically significant lower grades than their male counterparts. [Daily Beast]
* Nashville is banning booze on open air party vehicles. Where else are you supposed to drink after eating a goofy spicy chicken sandwich?! A bar?! [Tennessean]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.22.21
* On today’s episode of Strange Scholarships™: Sheriffs who pick and choose when to enforce the laws they are supposed to uphold. [The Daily Beast]
* New York’s “Nourish Bill” will encourage farmers to send their surplus produce to food banks. This is a kind of corn-y I can get behind! [WIVB]
* Texas passes law that puts penalties on being too good of a Samaritan. [The Battalion]
* If you’ve served your country and need another reason to not harm your partner(s) — be horrible and they may take your precious gun(s) away. [Military.com]
* For any 0Ls who’d like some help wrapping their heads around the Rittenhouse verdict, here are a couple lawyers who might help make sense of self-defense doctrine. [NPR]