Boy Scouts

* The Girl Scouts recently sued the Boy Scouts over recruitment tactics. Maybe the winning side will give their lawyers merit badges… [Guardian]

* The next Attorney General will be greeted with a large number of highly charged legal matters. [Wall Street Journal]

* A new lawsuit alleges that two women were unlawfully denied entry to a Florida strip club because they were not accompanied by a man. [Orlando Sentinel]

* Check out this article on why the booby traps in Home Alone are perfectly legal. [Movie Web]

* Cardi B has settled a lawsuit with her former manager. The ex-manager should know she’s making money moves… [TMZ]

* Is Paul Manafort planning on responding to his Congressional subpoena with receipts? [The Root]

* A much needed W for the First Amendment. [Patterico’s Pontifications]

* Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Supreme Court strategy. [Politico]

* This case will make you think about burping more than you care to. [Lowering the Bar]

* Trump can’t stop talking about Sessions. [Huffington Post]

* Your job is killing your posture. Can anything be done to stop you from developing a computer hunch? [Corporette]

* What is Jared Kushner hiding? [Slate]

* Learning the value of being a troublemaker. [Ghostwriting-Speechwriting]

* Maybe I’m biased (I definitely am), but Girl Scouts > Boy Scouts. [Jezebel]

* Preet Bharara is the hottest speaker on the law school graduation circuit. I guess if you can’t get Mindy Kaling… [Business Insider]

* An octopus is a vertebrate under some statutes. A reminder that law will not bow to your precious “science.” [Lowering the Bar]

* It’s tempting to feast on the carcass of a collapsing law firm, but partners should take this advice before rushing into a lateral hire. [Big Law Business / Bloomberg BNA ]

* The importance of not looking like a creep in front of a jury. [What About Clients?]

* Boy Scouts Prez Robert Gates thinks it’s time that the organization lift its ban on gays. In other news, Robert Gates is the president of the Boy Scouts now? [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]

* Too often disasters slip out of our consciousness before the problem is truly solved. In that vein, consider donating to Nepal Earthquake relief. [Help Nepal Network]

* Judge Richard Kopf reviews Mark Herrmann’s book, Inside Straight (affiliate link). [Hercules and the Umpire]

They may not be able to pass a budget, but they can give easily abused special rights to the Boy Scouts.

* “Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs.” Thanks Obama, but AG Eric Holder was the one who kind of signed off on the James Rosen search warrant. [Open Channel / NBC News]

* The chief judge of the D.C. Circuit apologized for a lack of transparency in the James Rosen probe, and this is one of the least embarrassing things that happened this week. [Washington Post]

* Despite having “done nothing wrong,” embattled tax official Lois Lerner announced she’s been placed on administrative leave in light of recent events. I salute you, fellow WNE grad. [National Review]

* Watch out, patent trolls, because this proposed bill might actually be — gasp! — helpful. If enacted, the Patent Abuse Reduction Act’s goal is to help keep discovery costs down. [Hillicon Valley / The Hill]

* It’s a hell of a drug: for some lawyers, the sequester won’t be such a bad thing after all, because Coast Guard and Navy forces won’t be available to intercept 38 tons of cocaine. [Breaking Defense]

* Proskauer Rose’s ex-CFO, Elly Rosenthal, has cut down her $10 million suit against the firm to just one allegation. She claims the firm fired her solely for her diagnosis of breast cancer. [Am Law Daily]

* A third perpetrator emerged in the Berkeley bird beheading case, and he was just sentenced to two days in jail. Can you listen to BARBRI in a jail cell? I guess he’ll find out. [San Francisco Chronicle]

* The Boy Scouts of America will now admit openly gay youths into their ranks for the first time in the history of ever. You should probably “be prepared” for a flurry of litigation over this. [New York Times]

* A mistrial was declared in the penalty phase of the Jodi Arias murder trial. Ugh, come on with this, the Lifetime movie is already in post-production! How on earth are they going to work this in? [CNN]

* Same-sex couple says their Eagle Scout badges helped prepare them for marriage. I don’t remember badges for nagging incessantly and dealing with your goddamned mother-in-law. [The Atlantic] * The British legal system: Now with more farting! [Legal Cheek] * #wheninlawschool and the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia comment on the 3L job market. [#wheninlawschool] * Out in Michigan, Judge Wade McCree is suspended with pay in escrow. Say it ain’t so? He’s had such a sterling reputation before this. [My Fox Detroit] * Because “You’ve Barely Gotten Anywhere” doesn’t have the same ring of female empowerment. [The Careerist] * You may think there wasn’t more to say about University of Denver dean Martin Katz’s bogus plea for more students. But you’d be wrong. [Lawyers, Guns & Money] * A pretty good description of American reactions to the drone strike memo. [The Onion] * The woman who flipped off a judge has apologized. [NBC Miami] * And Elie just sent me this one: “Sometimes, illegal hackers reveal something so beautiful they cannot be charged with a crime.” [Free Beacon]