Animal Rights
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Morning Docket: 10.21.22
* Your move: $100M lawsuit filed after accusations of cheating during a chess match. [WSJ]
* Does this mean I’d get CLE points for going to a computer lab? [Forbes]
* Enough about the right to bear arms, what about bear rights?! [NPR]
* Been thinking about taking the law school plunge but don’t know where to start? Here’s a primer. [Her Campus]
* Biden’s loan forgiveness survives another attempt at being snuffed out in court. Woop Woop! [The Hill]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.12.20
* A California family is being sued by an animal rights group for allegedly mistreating their cows. Maybe the farmers were lactose intolerant… Bet they’ll file a “moo”tion to dismiss…(I can go all day!). [My Valley News]
* A veteran Oregon attorney has surrendered his law license amid allegations of theft and other illicit conduct. [Oregonian]
* A woman has been charged with damaging the car of a lawyer representing a former cop allegedly involved in the death of George Floyd. [Minneapolis Star Tribune]
* A federal judge has dismissed the Trump Campaign’s lawsuit concerning election procedures in Pennsylvania. [AP]
* An ethics board has approved of a New York lawyer withdrawing from a representation involving a court appearance out of fear of contracting COVID-19. [Bloomberg Law]
* A woman was cited over the weekend for allegedly drunk driving at over four times the legal limit and crashing into a bridge causing a traffic nightmare. Maybe she’ll get four times the normal punishment… [Fox News]
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Animal Law, Justice
Actual Chimpanzees Don't Have Legal Rights: Seems Like An Important Distinction Just At The Moment
Rights and responsibilities go hand-in-hand.
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Animal Law, Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Sponsored Content
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Public Interest
Wyoming 'Data Censorship' Law Under Fire In Federal Court
Will this law face the same fate as one in a neighboring state? -
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Animal Law
No, A Judge Didn't Say Chimpanzees Are People
No, a judge didn't really say chimpanzees have personhood -- check out the order. -
Animal Law, Lawsuit of the Day
Appeals Court Hears Chimpanzee Rights Case
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Animal Law, Crime, Dubious Defenses, Jury Duty, Oral Sex / Blow Jobs, Trials, United Kingdom / Great Britain
Cow Rejects Man’s Sexual Advances. What Happens Next... Is the Jury Laughs At Him.
Jury reveling in the hilarious testimony in an attempted bestiality case. -
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Alan Dershowitz, Bar Exams, Gloria Allred, Jeffrey Toobin, New Jersey, Non-Sequiturs, Pets, Violence, Wall Street
Non-Sequiturs: 11.20.12
* Better late than never: congratulations to everyone who passed the New Jersey bar exam. You’re just in time to get in on some Sandy class-action litigation. [New Jersey Board of Bar Examiners] * Congratulations to all the honorees from the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association conference in D.C. last weekend — including, but not limited to, the Best Lawyers Under 40 awardees. [NAPABA] * And congrats to Professor Sherrilyn Ifill, incoming president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. [Concurring Opinions] * Does every bra made in America have Gloria Allred’s phone number sewn into it? [WSJ Law Blog] * Who is “Portfolio Manager A” in the latest major insider-trading scandal? [Dealbreaker] * You don’t need to be a dog lover to find these allegations abhorrent. [Alabama Live] * Want to avoid dating Democrats (or Republicans)? There’s an app — okay, two websites — for that. [Jezebel] * After the jump, Jeffrey Toobin and Alan Dershowitz discuss Obamacare…. Toobin is the author of The Oath (affiliate link). Dersowitz is the new owner of a $1.7 million Manhattan apartment. Their conversation took place last Friday, November 16, at the 92nd Street Y. -
Animal Law, Crime, Deaths, Kids
'Dingo Ate My Baby' Defense Actually Works!
An Australian coroner concludes that a dingo really did eat this woman's baby. -
American Bar Association / ABA, Animal Law, Attorney Misconduct, Bankruptcy, California, Football, Law Schools, Legal Ethics, Morning Docket, Student Loans, Utah, Violence
Morning Docket: 02.06.12
* More law school graduates are trying to get their day in court for bankruptcy protection. Looks like these people didn’t read their student loan MPNs carefully (or at all). They state pretty clearly that you’re screwed for life. [Reuters] * Part-time programs are closing their doors. Even Cooley Law took a hit, trimming its […]
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Animal Law, Basketball, Blogging, Divorce Train Wrecks, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Sports, Tax Law
Non-Sequiturs: 12.20.12
* It’d be easy to say “a former Tea Party candidate posted about assassinating the President.” But it’s probably more accurate to say a crazy, racist, loony person scrawled something naughty on Facebook and is now in trouble. [Huffington Post] * I’d like to buy this, and then use it to TP Herman Cain’s house […] -
6th Circuit, Animal Law, Quote of the Day
Quote of the Day: Throw the Court a Bone
This is perhaps the dog-gonest case ever to reach a federal appellate court. — Judge Ronald Lee Gilman, writing for Sixth Circuit in O’Neill v. Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, a case that involved the forcible implanting of microchips in a family’s dogs without consent. -
Animal Law, Insider Trading, Law Professors, Lindsay Lohan, Morning Docket, Music, Racism, Sentencing Law
Morning Docket: 10.26.11
* Rajabba is appealing his insider trading convictions and prison sentence, but someone needs to suffer for this outrage. Where are Solo and the Wookiee when you need them? [Bloomberg] * PETA is suing SeaWorld on Thirteenth Amendment grounds for enslaving killer whales. Oh, so the only marine animals you’ll help have to be black […]
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American Bar Association / ABA, Animal Law, Law Schools, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Ted Olson
Non-Sequiturs: 10.19.11
* The American Bar Association is hiring Carol Stevens, former managing editor of USA Today, as its new director of media relations. Yeah, ’cause it’s the media that makes the ABA look bad, not the ABA’s refusal to regulate law schools during a time of dishonesty and profiteering by member institutions. [Poynter] * Let’s play […] -
Alston & Bird, Animal Law, Benchslaps, Biglaw, Cars, Deaths, Federal Judges, Law Schools, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Musical Chairs, Non-Sequiturs, Sam Sparks, Texas
Non-Sequiturs: 09.01.11
* Remember the “kindergarten party” that Judge Sam Sparks (W.D. Tex.) was planning to hold? His Honor has canceled the festivities. [WSJ Law Blog] * John Althouse Cohen — yes, son of La Althouse — discusses one way in which Texas might be emulating… Europe? [Jaltcoh] * Professor Paul Campos opens up a can of […] -
Animal Law, Crime, Pets
Piercing Your Cat Will Not Make You Better at Being a Goth
Something we don’t really get a chance to write about that often on Above the Law is the rise of the Goth subculture in America — and that’s probably because no one cares about it. Just like how no one cared about most Goth kids when they were growing up, which led them to believe […] -
Animal Law, Crime, Pets
Animal Abusers Are One Step Closer to Being Treated Like the Soon-To-Be Human Abusers They Really Are
Suffolk County, my old ‘hood, just took a huge step forward in the cause for animal rights. The WSJ Law Blog reports: New York’s Suffolk County legislature on Wednesday signed off on a measure that would publicly name anyone convicted of animal abuse by having them report to a registry for five years after their […]