Debt Ceiling

  • Morning Docket: 05.12.23
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.12.23

    * Noticed the big changes in US News’ law school rankings? Here’s your primer. [Reuters]

    * When pigs cause splits: Who knew pork could fragment SCOTUS so? [Slate]

    * Not only are the incessant conversations about the debt ceiling annoying — the whole concept of the ceiling could be unconstitional. [Vox]

    * Bearing witness is hard enough without having to deal with a judge’s unwelcome remarks. [ABA Journal]

    * Guess which state doubled down on it being okay to own a gun before your first beer? [Reuters]

  • Boalt Hall, Depositions, Federal Government, Insider Trading, Law Schools, Mark Cuban, Morning Docket, New Jersey, Politics

    Morning Docket: 10.17.13

    * The fiscal impasse in our nation’s capital is over! The government shutdown is over! Obamaphones for everyone!!!!! [Washington Post]

    * Tim Geithner was recently deposed as part of a lawsuit alleging that the government bailout of AIG was unconstitutional. Muammar Gaddafi was less recently deposed as part of a coup alleging that his female bodyguards were unconstitutionally sexy. [Fox Business]

    * Berkeley Bird Beheader begins boot bivouac. [Fox5 Vegas via Las Vegas Law Blog]

    * Cory Booker (Yale Law ’97) won a Senate seat last night, promptly bumping Lat from the cover of the next Yale Law alumni magazine. It was the Halloween issue — the annual Boo Haven edition. [ABC News]

    * Mark Cuban was acquitted of insider trading charges yesterday. In related news, this basset hound loves fans. [CBS News]

    * Brooklyn Law faces a possible debt downgrade from Standard & Poor’s. The school’s unemployed graduates, substandard and poor, have yet to weigh in. [Crain’s New York Business]

    * In other law school news, Chicago-Kent announces an interesting new initiative (with a Whopper of a name). [IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law (press release)]