ACLU
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 01.30.17
* Uber is the new Chick-Fil-A. [New York Daily News]
* Trump administration now says the Muslim ban doesn’t apply to green card holders. It’d be funny to watch them defining the parameters of their bigotry if it wasn’t so horrifying. [New York Times]
* There should be a special place in hell for immigration officials who try to swindle immigrants out of their legal rights. [Policy.Mic]
* The ACLU received $24 million in donations this weekend, from 356,306 people. Where the rest of you at? [Washington Post]
* Google has created a $4 million “crisis fund” to help fight Trump’s Muslim ban. [USA Today]
* I keep calling Trump’s Muslim ban a “Muslim ban” because it’s a goddamn Muslim ban. But if administration officials would like me to call it “Trump’s ban on Muslims he doesn’t do business with,” I’m open to it. [Independent]
* I wanted to something unrelated to our country’s despicable behavior. All I came up with is getting baked in Maine. [Portland Press Herald]
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Justice, Politics
Court Hits Pause On Muslim Ban, But Nation Remains On A Precipice
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.25.17
* The United States has been downgraded to a “flawed democracy.” [New York Daily News]
* The irony is too much. [Washington Post]
* Rick Hasen on how a voter fraud investigation should really go. [Slate]
* The ACLU wants Jeff Sessions back before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. [ACLU]
* Trump’s election changed a lot of things. [Medium]
* Get ready for insurance to be disrupted. [Law and More]
* Wait, where the heck _is_ Staci?
https://twitter.com/stacizaretsky/status/824339825063055364
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Crime, Health Care / Medicine, Justice
Infecting People With HIV Shouldn't Be A Crime... I Think
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.11.16
* Maryland knows what’s up. [NBC News]
* Jefferson County, Alabama, just elected nine black women to the judiciary. [The Slot]
* Kamala Harris is being floated as the the person who may become the first woman president. [Huffington Post]
* Maybe the Bluebook isn’t really the problem. [Ziff Blog]
* The ACLU is building up its war chest. [Uproxx]
* TPP is dead. [BuzzFeed]
* Taking a look at Trump’s potential cabinet. [Slate]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 11.10.16
* The ACLU prepares to take on Trump in court. [KETV]
* Loving looks like it will be a great movie. Which is particularly relevant as these folks gain power. [Vulture]
* Trend alert? Prosecutors campaigning on less jail time. [Vice]
* Is there a way forward for bail reform? [Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle]
* Trump was probably lying about locking up Hillary Clinton. [Huffington Post]
* Redefining the role of immigration attorneys in Donald Trump’s America. [Law and More]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.27.16
* Game theory and the battle over the Supreme Court. [Harvard Business Review]
* No punishment for Professor Reynolds from the University of Tennessee Law School over questionable Tweets. [Knoxville News Sentinel]
* The blame game over Donald Trump’s bad debate performance. [Law and More]
* Check out this event with Gillian Thomas, attorney at ACLU Women’s Rights Project and author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work. [Rewire]
* A look at close cases at the Supreme Court. [Empirical SCOTUS]
* This is horrifying. [Slate]
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ACLU, Immigration
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Free Speech
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 01.20.16
* Living the goddamn dream! This Biglaw attorney is retired… at age 33. [Mr. Money Mustache]
* Law school lecture goes viral! In fairness, “don’t talk to the police” seems like extra relevant advice after binge-watching Making a Murderer. [The Blaze]
* Pissed off about price gouging on Super Bowl tickets? Well, the Third Circuit sure isn’t going to help. [Bloomberg BNA]
* Is there a way to wish anger away? It may not be easy, but here are some tips to help with anger management. [Katz Justice]
* The ACLU has filed a class action over Louisiana’s underfunding of the public defender system. [ACLU]
* Great advice for keeping your firm’s (and client’s) sensitive information out of the hands of hackers. [Reboot Your Law Practice]
* Congratulations to Elizabeth Wydra, longtime chief counsel of the Constitutional Accountability Center, who takes over as CAC’s new president. [National Law Journal]
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Health Care / Medicine
Ebola Quarantines Were Probably Unconstitutional And Certainly Stupid, Says New Report
Those Ebola restrictions were as terrible as they seemed. -
ACLU, Breasts
Mayor Wonders If Nipple Lawsuit Will Survive The Winter
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Federal Judges
Federal Judge Scared Of Change, Dismisses Transgender Student's Claim
One judge seems woefully out of line with the national zeitgeist. -
Sexism
Can They Do This? Should They Do This? ACLU Takes On Hollywood
The ACLU is going after Hollywood... I wonder how that'll work out. -
2nd Circuit, Privacy, Technology
Second Circuit Blasts NSA Phone Metadata Collection Program
In a huge decision, the Second Circuit reinstated a challenge to the NSA's warrantless phone records program. -
ACLU, Layoffs
Nationwide Layoff Watch: Lawyers Swept Out For Spring Cleaning
It's sad that even our nation's do-gooders can't escape the cruelty of layoffs. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.09.15
* Amal Clooney, the attorney who tamed George Clooney’s heart and is now considered one of the most famous human rights lawyers in the world, will be teaching at a New York law school this spring. Which one? We’ll have more on this fun news later today. [USA Today]
* Talk about a Hail Mary play: The ACLU has decided to come to the defense of a very unlikely cause. Per a recently filed federal brief, the organization thinks that the USPTO’s cancellation of the Redskins trademark was unconstitutional. [WSJ Law Blog]
* According to a new BARBRI study, the vast majority of third-year law students think they’re ready to go when it comes to practicing law, but the lawyers who have had the (dis)pleasure to work with new graduates don’t seem to agree. [National Law Journal]
* “Those kinds of jobs are never going to be enough to absorb the number of people graduating from law school over the next five or 10 years.” Northeastern’s dean laughs in Biglaw’s face — his grads measure their success in other ways. [Boston Business Journal]
* Ellen Pao’s “racy” gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins serves as a harsh criticism of the sexist culture of Silicon Valley. Luckily, jury members will be able to busy themselves with the case’s more lurid details. [The Upshot / New York Times]
* Kyle McEntee of Law School Transparency is working on a new podcast that will help prospective law students to see what working in the legal profession is really like. “I Am The Law” debuted in January 2015, and it’s worth a listen. [U.S. News & World Report]
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ACLU, Baseball, Google / Search Engines, Intellectual Property, Job Searches, Laurence Tribe, Non-Sequiturs, Prostitution, Sex, Technology, Trademarks
Non-Sequiturs: 08.15.14
* Suit filed questioning the parentage of Blue Ivy Carter. Plaintiff claims to be the real… mother? Hm. You’d think that would be pretty easy for everyone to remember. [International Business Times] * The Washington D.C.-area NFL team has filed suit to get its trademark back. They think the USPTO are Indian Givers. [DCist] * The ACLU is asking courts to define “freedom of the press” in the wake of Ferguson. I understand their impulse, I just don’t think they’re gonna like the answer. [Fox2Now] * A 71-year-old lawyer allegedly called two escorts over to his house and they asked for more money. Even for rich lawyers it’s the principle of the thing. [South Florida Lawyers] * Sad to see Professor Larry Tribe join the “let’s blame the teachers instead of funding public schools” parade. But now that he’s become a high-profile supporter of ending tenure for those teaching the young, perhaps he’ll renounce his own tenure. Or at least fight to revoke it from all his colleagues. [National Law Journal] * A Colombian lawyer is suing FIFA for $1.3 billion over bad officiating. Of all the things FIFA deserves to get sued over, this isn’t making the list. [Washington Post] * Congratulations to Rob Manfred, a Harvard Law grad formerly of Morgan Lewis, on his promotion to MLB Commissioner. He will continue the proud tradition of keeping us bored all summer long while we wait for football to come back. [New York Times] * New lawsuit says Google kept records of plans to infringe intellectual property… on Post-Its. Unwise. Office supplies are for back-to-school shopping, not writing down wrongful acts. [Valleywag] * If you’re a current 3L or a law grad about to come off a clerkship, NOAA has a job opportunity for you. Imagine how exciting it will be when the next Sharknado happens! [USAJobs via NOAA] -
ACLU, Biglaw, Drinking, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Food, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Politics, Tax Law
Morning Docket: 07.11.14
* Judge Emmet Sullivan (D.D.C.) wants the IRS to explain, in a sworn declaration, how exactly it lost Lois Lerner’s emails. [WSJ Law Blog]
* And the fun for the IRS continues today in the courtroom of Judge Reggie Walton (D.D.C.), as reported by Sidney Powell, author of Licensed To Lie (affiliate link). [New York Observer]
* Speaker John Boehner wants to take the Republicans’ crusade against Obamacare to the courts. [New York Times]
* Andrew Calder, the young M&A partner that Kirkland & Ellis snagged from Simpson Thacher for a reported $5 million a year, is already bringing in big deals. [American Lawyer]
How the cupcake crumbles: the once-successful venture of an NYLS grad and her husband needs a rescue.
* “Duke University is not and never has been in the business of producing, marketing, distributing, or selling alcohol.” Some bros down in Durham disagree. [ABA Journal]
* If you see something… sue someone? The ACLU and Asian American civil rights groups, together with some help from Bingham McCutchen, have filed a legal challenge to the Suspicious Activity Reporting database. [New York Times]
* Congrats to David Hashmall, the incoming chair of Goodwin Procter — and congrats to outgoing chair Regina Pisa, the first woman ever to lead an Am Law 100 firm, on her long and successful leadership. [American Lawyer]
* A group of investors might end up devouring Crumbs, the cupcake-store chain founded by New York Law School grad Mia Bauer that suddenly shut down this week amid talk of a bankruptcy filing. [Wall Street Journal (sub. req.)]