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* Rudy Giuliani may be hot to trot for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but that doesn’t mean his relatives are. His daughter, Caroline, has indicated that she’ll be casting her ballot for Hillary Clinton. [Big Law Business]

* Police in New Jersey have made their first creepy clown arrest. The alleged perp is a 12-year-old from Toms River who made an “unspecified threat” against her middle school from the Instagram account “Killerclownfromnj.” [Fault Lines / Mimesis Law]

* Just like your country, you’re young, scrappy, and hungry, but that unauthorized “Hamilton” merchandise you’re selling is a definite way to lose your shot — and find yourself on the receiving end of an IP lawsuit. [THR, Esq. / Hollywood Reporter]

* Why not combine your love for liquor with your love for the law? Be a beer and wine attorney! Raise your glass, because these are the three coolest job listings this week in that field, and two of them are in-house! Cheers! [Greedy Associates / FindLaw]

* Why haven’t you registered for the Academy for Private Practice yet? You can network with your peers at our cocktail reception *and* receive CLE credit. It’s taking place in Philadelphia on October 27 and 28, and we’re offering a huge discount. Use code “10YRDISCOUNT” to receive $100 off the price of your ticket! [Above the Law]

* The ABA is finally cracking down on law school accreditation… and ham-fistedly came down on the wrong school. [Big Law Business]

* The EU Playboy verdict could undermine the online press. [Engadget]

* Today, on the anniversary of the Attica uprising, prisoners across several states planned a mass work stoppage to protest systemic injustices. How does something like this come together? [Wired]

* Meanwhile, across the pond, the Supreme Court is selling off art made by prisoners for £30-£500 a pop. [Legal Cheek]

* We need more judges like this. [Katz Justice]

* A chat with activist Amanda Nguyen on the occasion of President Obama’s expected signing of the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights. [NPR]

* The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline is generating as much buzz as anything can over the cacophony of the election and football, but is there a legal case to be made for putting a stop to the project? [The Atlantic]

* Forget about the Prime Directive, why doesn’t Star Fleet have a duty to warn about some of the crazy stuff they run across? [The Legal Geeks]

* Speaking of Star Trek, the National Marine Fisheries Service just delisted nine humpback whale populations from the endangered species list. Thanks, Admiral Kirk! [Courthouse News Service]

* It’s official: a judge has ruled Beyoncé’s landmark visual album, Lemonade, did not infringe on a white dude’s indie film. [Hollywood Reporter]

* Tim Cook is pissed off about his Irish tax bill. [Huffington Post]

* Will writing these things on legal documents get you fired? [Defenestration Magazine]

* The chances of lawyers landing on their feet when they’ve been fired at 61. [Law and More]

* Does the length of a jury’s deliberation have a correlation to the verdict returned? [Versus Texas]

* Quinn Emanuel sanctioned by the U.S. International Trade Commission over the Apple-Samsung case. [Law.com]

* No rest for the dissolving: Kenyon & Kenyon hit with malpractice suit. [Law360]

* Indiana’s Go Ahead And Hate Gays Religious Freedom Act invoked in child abuse defense. It’s truly a testament to how kerfunkered this whole election is that this episode isn’t going to be a devastating scandal for the Trump-Pence ticket. [Chicago Tribune]

* Former tech GC takes on housekeeping gig. [Corporate Counsel]

* Katten Muchin Rosenman; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips; and Eisner Jaffe all land stadium renaming deals, proving that there’s money to be made everywhere. Enjoy AshleyMadison.com Park! [The Am Law Daily]

* Score one for the anti-trolls: A federal judge orders a lawyer to pay $22K in legal fees after he filed multiple lawsuits over the use of his pictures. [ABA Journal]

* Palestinian Authority terrorism verdict given the heave ho by Second Circuit. [NY Times]

* You know who no one talked about at that convention? Merrick Garland. Here’s a theory as to why… [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

* Steven Avery is not pleased with Dean Strang and Jerry Buting and he’s got a handwritten screed about it. [USA Today]

* Law professor has bats in her belfry. [Tax Prof Blog]

* Jury nullification in the murder of Bruce Banner. [The Legal Geeks]

* Professor Orly Lobel on the prisoner’s dilemma of reporting sexual harassment. [Fortune]

* This is how easily a Supreme Court vacancy is handled in a civilized country. [Legal Cheek]

* French court says Lockout was plagiarized from Escape From New York. I thought it was a little suspicious that Lockout followed the adventures of Lizard Flissken. [io9]

* What is the proper choice of law for space crimes? Um, pretty sure it’s Judge Dredd, but you write up your little piece anyway. [Seeker]

* Becoming addicted to Biglaw power. [Law and More]

* Bill Cosby replaces Quinn Emanuel as his counsel. [Deadline]

* One of the One Direction boys is dating a law student… [Legal Cheek]

* Take the Lowering the Bar Supreme Court trivia quiz! [Lowering the Bar]

* Showing the sort of rationality long thought lost on major studios, Paramount releases guidelines for Star Trek fans hoping to make fan films. [The Legal Artist]

* “Law School Is The New Bootcamp.” The title may be a bit misleading, but this article bemoans the rise of lawyering over soldiering in political appointments. [American Spectator]

* Prosecutors clinging to their own deluded sense of justice seek same prison term at resentencing — even after some vacated convictions. [Sentencing Law and Policy]

* More analysis of the Justice Ginsburg comments on Donald Trump. In all the hubbub over free speech and judicial ethics, it seems to me that we give judges lifetime tenure specifically so they can voice whatever goddamned opinions they want without fear of reprisal. [The Faculty Lounge]

* It shouldn’t shock anyone, but some other countries are a lot better about handling student debt. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]

* In case you haven’t been keeping score like we have, these are the firms that recently raised salaries: Duval & Stachenfeld; Seyfarth Shaw; and Foley & Lardner. If you’re worried you’ve missed any of our coverage on pay raises, check out our omnibus 2016 salary chart where we collect these stories. [2016 Salary Increase / Above the Law]

* Lawyers are “the best-paid writers in the world,” so grammar god Bryan Garner suggests they emulate one of the greatest language snoots of them all: the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Garner identifies with Scalia’s textualism because “[he] believe[s] that words have meaning, and that we should take them seriously.” [Wall Street Journal]

* According to constitutional law scholar Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Irvine Law, SCOTUS may be at a turning point since the next president will likely be able nominate up to four justices. “Whether you see yourself as conservative or liberal … this affects all of us, our most intimate and important aspects of our lives.” [Los Angeles Times]

* Lawyers for Led Zeppelin are seeking about $800K in costs and legal fees for their defense of the seminal rock band in the “Stairway to Heaven” copyright infringement suit. Peter Anderson, the band’s lead counsel in the case, claims that his $330 per hour rate is “actually below” the going rate for this caliber of high-profile work. [Ars Technica]

* Venezuelan authorities have arrested a woman connected to Mossack Fonseca, the firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, for allegedly being “in charge of seeking customers to invest illicit funds in outsourcing-type business arrangements.” She’s been charged with illegally obtaining funds in violation of banking regulations. [Reuters]

* A look back on this noteworthy Supreme Court term. Conservatives started the term with such high hopes, but those were dashed after the death of Justice Scalia. [Jost on Justice]

* More Perfect, a podcast bringing the stories behind the highest court in the land to life. [RadioLab]

* Review of the new book (affiliate link) that posits the Supreme Court’s move to the right began with the Berger Court. [Washington Independent]

* Yay! You can sing “happy birthday” in public! Thank you plaintiffs’ bar! [TMZ]

* Remember lawyers, clients are there for you to take care of, not the other way around. [Katz Justice]

* Got a parking ticket? Maybe this robot lawyer can take care of it for you. [The Mirror]

* An excellent source for in-house lawyers, and yes, it’s free. Unless You Ask: A Guide For Law Departments to Get More From External Relationships [Association of Corporate Counsel]

* On the subject of raises, yesterday we heard — a mixed bag of news — from Linklaters (technically the night before), Barack Ferrazzano, Chadbourne & Parke, Pryor Cashman, Tensegrity, Steptoe & Johnson LLP, and Reed Smith. [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase]

* If you’re an associate serving in your firm’s London office, I sure as hell hope you’re getting paid in dollars. [BBC]

* UK legal experts explain why this vote isn’t legally binding. [Legal Cheek]

* On the other hand, could this be a boon for lawyers? [Big Law Business / Bloomberg]

* Who’s on first in front of Second. [Law360]

* Dentons global government sector co-chair leaves for boutique. As you’re statutorily obligated to say to every Biglaw lawyer moving to a small firm: “you’re not going to have the same support services… are you ready for that?” [The Am Law Daily]

* Penn State’s former general counsel testified that at least he understood that the school needed to report Jerry Sandusky back in 2001 and told the school as much. Which is impressive, since he told the New York Times in 2011 that he’d never even heard of any allegations against Sandusky. [Fox News]

* Former law firm executive sentenced to prison. [Atlanta Journal Constitution]

* A deep look at the horrific side of criminal justice: a long-form account of four months as a private prison guard. Think of it as “Orange Is The New Black” without having to listen to Piper prattle on. [Mother Jones]

* OK Cravathketeers! Sound off if you raised salaries yesterday. Greenberg Traurig (sort of)! Olshan (consistent with its existing scale)! Stroock! Haynes and Boone! [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase]

* Second Circuit nixes former Bryan Cave attorney Harvey Newkirk’s effort to put off jail. [Law360]

* Armed with well-compensated associates, Latham & Watkins targets laterals to its partnership. [The Am Law Daily]

* Some questionable reasoning on the value of law school. Sure there are haves and have nots. But the conclusion is basically, “hey, a senator went to a mediocre law school, so… I guess those work out.” Not exactly encouraging. Especially when your example of a successful law grad is a guy who faced questions raised over his ability to cover his personal expenses. [New York Times]

* The defense rested yesterday in the ongoing Led Zeppelin trial. I’m sure the closing will sound vaguely like someone else’s closing argument and spur another stupid lawsuit. [Courthouse News Service]

* The ABA really likes Judge Merrick Garland. I’m sure that will melt hearts on Capitol Hill. [WSJ Law Blog]

* Our compatriots across the pond talked Brexit with Shearman & Sterling partners [Legal Cheek]

* Happy Friday! Let’s start by giving props to the firms that announced pay raises yesterday: Morgan Lewis, Andrews Kurth, Ashurst, Crowell & Moring, Orrick, and Dechert. [Above the Law / 2016 Salary Increase]

* Speaking of the Great Pay Raise of 2016, law firm leaders want to reassure irate in-house counsel: don’t worry, you won’t see this (directly) reflected in your rates. [Big Law Business]

* Biglaw Game of Thrones: who are the leading contenders to succeed Jeffrey Stone and Peter Sacripanti as co-chairs of McDermott? [American Lawyer]

* The Second Circuit plays a sad song for record companies in a closely watched copyright case. [How Appealing]

* And in other copyright news, SCOTUS (sorta) clarifies the standards for awarding attorneys’ fees in copyright cases. [New York Times]

* Look for indictments to issue from the grand jury in the Dan Markel murder case. [News4Jax]

* Noam Scheiber of the Times takes a close look at struggling Valparaiso Law — and it’s not a pretty picture. (Expect more on this later.) [New York Times]

* Ex-prosecutor gone bad: a Cleveland criminal defense attorney just got convicted after agreeing to launder thousands of dollars for someone he thought was a cocaine dealer. [Cleveland Plain Dealer]

* Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) is leading a filibuster to demand Congress actually act on gun control. Many Democrats and Republican Senator Pat Toomey have all spoken on the issue. [Slate]

* Music is the first order of business in a copyright trial — well, when the subject of the complaint is Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven, it is. [Courthouse News Service]

* An analysis of the role of a human rights worker. [Lawyers, Guns and Money]

* Gawker is under more legal threats, this time for writing an article about Donald Trump’s hair. [Law and More]

* But Nick Denton assures us, despite legal threats and filing for bankruptcy, the business will be just fine. [Gawker]

* A ray of light for Madonna as the Ninth Circuit hands her a victory in a long-running copyright infringement case, creating a circuit split in the process. [Billboard]

* The New York Court of Appeals overturns the $17.2 million award Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder earlier won against Cadwalader at summary judgment. Life’s hard for billionaires who beg regular people pay their bills for them. [Law360]

* Kirkland & Ellis plays hardball with departing partner, forcing him to repay a $120K bonus before walking out the door. [Legal Week]

* This is why we can’t have nice things. Literally. Intellectual property concerns threaten customizable goods. [Corporate Counsel]

* Texas AG Ken Paxton’s still gonna have to face those criminal fraud charges. [Courthouse News Service]

* Industry groups come out of the woodwork to challenge a Department of Labor rule requiring retirement advisors to act in the best interest of their customers. Crocodile tears abound as the groups claim they agree with the sentiment of the rule but just want the SEC to write it — knowing full well that the SEC isn’t going to write it. [Wall Street Journal]

* Add ABA President Paulette Brown to the list of people outraged that Donald Trump is criticizing a federal judge for, among other things, being of Mexican descent. [Law360]

* Irell gets sneaky in this copyright win over pre-1972 songs. [Litigation Daily]