Civil Rights
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Courts
Police And Prosecutors Allegedly Engaged In Scheme Of Using Sex And Drugs To Coerce Confessions
This took prosecutorial discretion way too far. -
Biglaw, Courts
Biglaw Firm Does Good In A Big Way: Gibson Dunn Secures Major Win For George Floyd Protester Injured By LAPD Officer
This is the first time a verdict has been secured against the LAPD arising from the George Floyd protests. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 06.29.22
* Texas sheriff decides that Dobbs just didn’t happen. [The Guardian]
* The “deeply rooted” rhetoric from the Dobbs opinion is already getting used to attack trans folks. If only America was deeply rooted in equality. [Axios]
* The SCOTUS Dobbs ruling was so bad — *How bad was it?* — that it tanked American soft power. Please clap. [WaPo]
* Reminder: Respect to Dick’s and all, but planning on corporations to save you generally isn’t good praxis. [Commondreams]
* With Bremerton nixing the Establishment Clause, I wonder how the Court will process religious justifications for abortion? [Miami Herald]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.11.22
* Democratic Senators are trying to enshrine and expand Roe in light of the Alito leak. [AP News]
* Might need faith bigger than a mustard seed for this one: the Supreme Court’s approval rating is tanking. [Yahoo!]
* Prep begins for a civil rights lawsuit after police appear to racially profile a lacrosse team. [USA Today]
* Biden may issue an executive order that increases abortion access. [Reuters]
* Weed being legal in NY means that employers have less leeway penalizing their employees for what they do in their free time. Oh noes. [Newsday]
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Drugs
How The Drug War Corrupts Our Institutions
The evidence has been compelling for decades that the policy of drug prohibition corrupts our institutions into creating more harm rather than mitigating it. -
Courts
The Loss Of Civility
It is no coincidence that the same figures who seek to enact gratuitously cruel policies or deny fundamental liberties are always the ones opining about a loss of 'civility.' -
Constitutional Law
Gross Hypocrisy Is No Longer A Political Sin, And Other Reflections On A Year Gone By
It’s Tyler Broker’s one-year anniversary here at Above The Law, so he felt compelled to take some perspective. - Sponsored
How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Findings from the "Future of Professionals Report," based on a survey of 1,200 professionals from North and South America and the UK. -
Constitutional Law
Poverty Is Wholly Preventable And Escaping It Should Now Be Considered A Natural Human Right
My generation has a chance to completely wipe out poverty, but the result will be not achieved by a statist, communist method, and neither will it come from a conservative ‘deserving only’ system. -
Small Law Firms
Lawyer Sends Around Racist Pictures Of Beer, NAACP Gets Involved
After facing consequences for posting an offensive image online, a lawyer complains that it's everyone's fault but his. -
Courts
Qualified Immunity Empowers Constitutional Violations, But That Can Change…
SCOTUS has an opportunity to reverse this trend and insist that those who have been constitutionally wronged have some available means to vindicate their violation. -
Crime
Will The Confederate Justice Department Refuse To Prosecute Eric Garner's Killer?
I have literally no faith in the current Justice Department to do the right thing when black lives are taken. -
Trials
Collars For Dollars: An Unconstitutional Police Practice?
Other juries will soon be asked to decide whether a petitioner's civil rights were violated through arrests by police seeking to make overtime dollars.
Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
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How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
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Government
Unpacking The Ways Trump's NYC Tweets Violate Due Process
Can somebody get a message to the president that he's not helping? -
Department of Justice, Justice, Police
St. Louis Police Now Just Arresting And Taunting Protestors
As the Department of Justice declines to intervene. -
Justice, Law Schools, Politics
University Of North Carolina Bans Civil Rights Center From Protecting Civil Rights
Take note, potential students: at UNC Law, saying that you support civil rights is "out of order." -
Immigration, Law Schools
With DACA Under Attack, Janet Napolitano Works To Create A New Generation Of Public Interest Lawyers
Above the Law chats with Janet Napolitano about her efforts to help law students seeking public and government work and the assault on DACA. -
Biglaw, Department of Justice, Politics
Disclosure Forms Reveal Biglaw Partner's Salary, Despicable Clients
Another Trump nominee releases financials and we get another look inside the black box of Biglaw compensation. -
Crime, Justice, Police
Officer Who Shot Fleeing Black Man Pleads Guilty To Civil Rights Violation
South Carolina will drop murder charges. -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 04.14.17
* Eli Manning might be getting burned by discovery. [ESPN]
* The Covington & Burling report on sexual misconduct at Choate that is rocking the world of elite boarding schools. [New York Times]
* Aaron Hernandez found not guilty of a 2012 double murder. Don’t worry, he is still serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder. [Deadspin]
* Did Donald Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, misplace $350,000? [Buzzfeed]
* If only this was what really happened behind the scenes at SCOTUS. [Huffington Post]
* DOJ gives up on HB2 litigation. [Slate]
* The civil rights of students are… probably not in good hands. [Salon]