* From prosecutor to prisoner: former Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen Kane gets sentenced to 10 to 23 months. [CNN] * Oh, the irony: the ABA won’t publish a report calling Donald Trump a “libel bully” because of “the risk of the ABA being sued by Mr. Trump.” [New York Times] * How the AT&T/Time Warner […]
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* Marriage equality, religious freedom, voting rights, campaign finance reform, racial justice... one civil rights issue outweighs them all: the composition of the Supreme Court. [Talking Points Memo] * Reminder to all the fresh lil' 1Ls out there: you just might find love. [Go Knoxville] * I'm glad someone is fact-checking How To Get Away With Murder; watching that show was getting exhausting. [Refinery 29] * How quickly what is considered "offensive" changes. [What About Paris?] * The latest review of Supreme Ambitions (affiliate link), by Katelyn Kye of Major, Lindsey & Africa (note: some spoilers). [In Brief] * Try not to let the misery of the courtroom get you down. [Katz Justice] * Taking a look at the process of adopting legal tech. [Law Technology Today] * A tribute to how Doug Kendall changed the way liberals talk about the constitution. The founder of the Constitutional Accountability Center, Kendall passed away this weekend. [Think Progress]
* Curious about what Ant-Man has to say about Civ Pro? And while you're there vote for ATL fav Legal Geeks for best podcast in The Geekie Awards. [Legal Geeks] * Speaking of podcasts, here's a great one about the movement to abolish the death penalty, with a particular focus on the recent spate of botched executions. [Punishment Podcast] * Update from the wide world of organized labor -- yes, that's still a thing -- there is a major steelworkers lockout with employers advertising on Craigslist to get scabs to work 84 hours a week of hard labor. See this is EXACTLY why we need unions. [Lawyers Guns and Money] * The latest in James Woods's suit to reveal the anonymous Twitter user that called him names: Twitter sends the actor a harshly worded letter. [The Hollywood Reporter] * Should the Supreme Court take up a case to have the remains of Jim Thorpe moved from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma? [The Hill] * Was the latest decision on protesting in SCOTUS plaza motivated by personal factors? [Fix the Court] * Today's the 60th anniversary of the murder of Emmett Till, whose death was a catalyst in the civil rights movement. [Time]
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* The Department of Justice has launched an antitrust investigation looking at potential price collusion between major airlines. The airline industry doing something to make customers' lives difficult? Surely you jest. [Associated Press] * Loretta Lynch went back to her hometown of Durham, North Carolina yesterday and held a roundtable on civil rights. She called particular attention to the recent violence at historically black churches “whether they are burned or through bullets." [WNCN] * J. Michael Farren, a White House attorney under George W. Bush, was disbarred in the District of Columbia. He was convicted of attempted murder for beating his wife, a former Skadden attorney, and sentenced to 15 years in jail. [National Law Journal] * Is there a gender bias in job descriptions? And if there is, what should be done about it? [American Lawyer] * Biglaw is making big bucks, but only giving small amounts to pro bono efforts. [ABA Journal] * An Ohio courthouse was evacuated Tuesday after a woman brought a bottle of perfume, shaped like a grenade to the court. I guess you can't be too careful. [Huffington Post]
* Getting a SCOTUS justice to attend your wedding is tough, but maybe invite one for dinner? [Washington Post] * A DOJ investigation concludes that the Ferguson Police Department and courts engaged in a "pattern and practice" of discrimination against African Americans. The investigation was conducted by the DOJ's division of obvious things. [CNN] * When police didn't respond to his call fast enough, this guy tried to rob a convenience store to get the cops out there faster. And then they still didn't come... [Legal Juice] * King v. Burwell argument is almost here! Conservatives are really eager to take the law down. But would hurting Obamacare really hurt conservatives more in the end? [Bloomberg View] * A California lawyer is proposing a new law to address homosexuality with "bullets to the head or by any other convenient method." I don't think that'll pass. [Huffington Post] * Authorities still harassing family who trusted a 10-year-old to walk outside without a parent hovering over them. It's hard to criticize helicopter parents when they're only following the law. [Washington Post] * Well, well, well. Now that they've sent out a harassing C&D letter, Katy Perry's people have thrown some Left Shark merchandise up on their site. [Katy Perry] * Fascinating use of the Internet: a crowdfunding campaign to help refugee mothers and children secure release from government detention. [Go Fund Me] * In this preview of Professor Nancy Leong's latest videocast, she talks with Professor Jessica Clarke about how courts treat sexual harassment cases in same- vs. opposite-sex harassment. [TheRightsCast] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVqYDrYNV0Y&utm_content=bufferd2ca9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Today we honor the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- and 2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches and the Voting Rights Act, so it's especially meaningful this year.
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* When it comes to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage mandate, corporate personhood only goes so far. Religious freedoms apply to human beings, not their businesses, and the Third Circuit agrees. [New York Times] * According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal sector added 2,800 jobs in July after major losses in the two months prior. We’re sure that the eleventy billion members of the class of 2013 will be very pleased. [Am Law Daily] * Not a Nigerian scam: Biglaw firms in Washington, D.C. — like Covington & Burling, Greenberg Traurig, and Williams Mullen — are busy chasing business in Africa. [Capital Business / Washington Post] * A New Jersey municipal judge faces ethics charges due to his “extra-judicial activities” with an exotic dancer. It seems she appeared before him in his courtroom and in his bed. [New Jersey Law Journal] * Tawana Brawley, the woman who dragged a New York prosecutor into an elaborate rape hoax (complete with race-baiting), is finally making payments on a defamation verdict. [New York Post] * “Either I’m a stupid lawyer, or I’m stupid for thinking the court will enforce the rights of guys.” Former Cravath attorney and men’s rights advocate Roy Den Hollander is at it again. [New York Daily News] * Morehouse College will be the fifth undergraduate school in the nation to publish a law journal. This is basically a case study in what it means to begin law school gunning while in college. [Daily Report] * Things are pretty dire for New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. Not even “that [law grad] who takes pictures of himself in his underwear in the mirror” would vote for him. [Delaware News Journal] * Julius Chambers, famous civil rights lawyer and former leader of the NAACP LDF, RIP. [NBC News]
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