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  • Morning Docket: 01.12.18
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 01.12.18

    * M&A lawyers see a banner year ahead as companies feel flush with cash and eager to spend it on flashy deals. Relatedly, bankruptcy lawyers should start gearing up for a monster 2019. [American Lawyer]

    * Army filed a challenge to the Las Vegas Golden Knights alleging it’s being harmed by people confusing the NHL hockey team with Army’s parachute team. With this filing, the three different “Tigers” in the SEC all start eyeing each other warily. [Washington Post]

    * Attorneys file fresh legal challenge on behalf of 11 men still detained at Gitmo since Trump’s been consistently Tweeting that they should be categorically held there indefinitely. [Huffington Post]

    * Some prominent Nazi-wing personalities are planning to sue privately owned social media companies for discriminating against their content. Because free enterprise should allow companies to not make cakes for immutable minorities but should not allow companies to choose how they present ideological content on their platforms. Yeah, that makes sense. [Hollywood Reporter]

    * Find yourself a job where you can not work for 500 days and still get paid. [New Jersey Law Journal]

    * Dean’s position gets $5 million endowment. [Duke Chronicle]

    * New Mexico toying with complete legal immunity for law enforcement. Because no one’s been arbitrarily killed by a cop in this country in, like, a whole two weeks. [Courthouse News Service]

    * If in-house work is outsourced is it really in-house work? Mind. Blown. [Law360]

  • Non-Sequiturs: 04.27.16
    Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 04.27.16

    * Amal Clooney lays the smackdown on Donald Trump, all without even uttering his name. Classy. [Vanity Fair]

    * If you’re convicted of a felony in connection with the murder of your mother, then you should probably expect to lose your law license. [Law Profession Blog]

    * Yes, Ted Cruz is making a fool of himself, running a Sisyphean race for president. But does that mean the founding fathers were right about that natural born citizen crap? (If someone born in Canada to an American mother is even what they meant by the phrase.) [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

    * BYU’s Title IX problem: Are they making sexual assault more likely by linking honor code investigations to reports of rape? [Slate]

    * Hooah! Army Captain Kristen Griest, one of the first women to earn a Rangers tab, will be transferring branches, becoming the first female infantry officer. Combat arms branches were recently opened to women for the first time, and Captain Griest’s move is part of the Army’s effort to integrate those branches. [Army Times]

    * Encounter with Ted Bundy! A victim of the notorious serial killer recalls the experience. [Huffington Post]

    * Should a settlement deal with a federal agency include a clause to prevent people from speaking negatively about the agency to Congress and the press? [Volokh Conspiracy]

    * The robots are coming for our jobs, but maybe, if we are lucky, some of us can survive. [Speechwriter Ghostwriter]

  • Non-Sequiturs: 03.01.16
    Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 03.01.16

    * It really isn’t okay that there are children that go hungry. Harvard Law student Thomas Tobin knows there is something that can be done to alleviate the problem. [Arkansas Online]

    * The Supreme Court rejected requests for expedited audio in today’s two big cases: Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt and U.S. v. Texas. When are we going to be able to force them to put cameras in there and be done with it? [Fix the Court]

    * Are the lawyers to blame for the giant Sharp / Foxconn deal falling through at the last second? And what can be done to salvage it? The clock is ticking and stock prices are falling. [Quartz]

    * Remember a few months ago when Republican governors were all butthurt about Syrian refugees? U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt ruled Indiana Governor Mike Pence was way outta line about the whole mess. [Wonkette]

    * The EEOC is going after employers that discriminate on the basis of sexuality, saying such actions are banned under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. About time. [Buzzfeed]

    * Looking back at one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time to understand how important filling Justice Scalia’s seat really is. [Huffington Post]

    * A Sikh officer in the Army is suing, complaining his religious observations have subjected him to increased testing. [New York Times]

    * For those of you who missed last week’s event at NYU Law, here’s video from “Love, Law, and… Clerkships,” featuring Professor Barry Friedman, Judge Alison Nathan (S.D.N.Y.), and our very own David Lat. [YouTube]

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjX6wLQmMIM&index=1&list=PLBC7DDA1DA3578169

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