DNA
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Crime
Breaking New AI Technology Brings Racial Profiling Into The 21st Century
No way this is going to definitely put innocent people in prison if it is widely adopted! -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.12.21
* The CEO of Marvel claims his DNA was stolen from a water bottle during a deposition. This sounds like a pretty strange origin story… [Property Casualty 360]
* The inspiration for a lawyer in the film Erin Brockovich has lost his law license. [Wrap]
* A lawsuit about the departure of the St. Louis Rams to Los Angeles has been delayed until 2022. [NBC News]
* Ghislaine Maxwell is allegedly selling her London home to pay for legal fees spent defending her criminal case related to Jeffrey Epstein. [Wall Street Journal]
* The Indiana Attorney General is in hot water for allegedly receiving thousands of dollars for advisory roles. Guess he’s having a hard time making ends meet on a government salary… [Indianapolis Star]
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Finance
Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test Doesn't Matter, But Her Policy On Congresspeople Owning Individual Stocks Does
Understanding Elizabeth Warren's policies seems far more important than understanding her family history.
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Crime
DNA -- Debate Or Debacle, And Why A Good Judge Makes All The Difference
When infallible science turns out to be not so infallible, the consequences can be grave. -
Continuing Legal Education / CLE, Sponsored Content
5 Monumental SCOTUS Decisions Every Lawyer Should Know About
As the highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court serves as the final arbiter of the law and guardian of America’s constitutional liberties.... -
Crime
How To Start Your Own Exoneration Project
It's a known fact that thousands of people are wrongly convicted of crimes and spend decades of their lives in jail because of it. -
Holy Crap, Labor / Employment, Nauseating Things
Legal Precedent Set By The 'Devious Defecator'
Have a rogue pooper in the workplace? Well, employers cannot request genetic materials to find the culprit. -
Antonin Scalia, Crime, Death Penalty, Quote of the Day
Discredited Death Penalty Prosecutor Doubles Down, Hurls Insults At Successor
Joe Freeman Britt won't forgive murder. Or, apparently, people who DON'T commit murder. - Sponsored
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Antonin Scalia, Death Penalty, Quote of the Day, Supreme Court
Justice Scalia Forced To Eat Crow For His Own Smugness
Justice Scalia snarked at Justice Blackmun. It turns out Justice Blackmun was right. -
Barack Obama, Election Law, Insider Trading, Mergers and Acquisitions, Morning Docket, Pepper Hamilton, Securities and Exchange Commission, Technology
Morning Docket 11.12.13
* Who are the real victims of insider trading? It’s the Duke brothers, duh. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Judge Ellen Huvelle has ordered the government to turn over to her an executive order that the feds claim is subject to executive privilege. Judge Huvelle rejected the administration’s argument that privilege exists because, “we don’t want to give it to you.” [Politico]
* Pepper Hamilton has joined the greener pastures of Silicon Valley, opening an office with three partners poached from Goodwin Proctor. [Reuters Legal (sub. req.)]
* Speaking of poaching, Martin Dunn, former deputy director of the SEC and O’Melveny partner is joining Morrison & Foerster. [The Blog of the Legal Times]
* And while we’re at it, M&A partner Sean Rodgers has left Simpson Thacher to merge with Kirkland & Ellis. [The AmLaw Daily]
* Publisher ALM (The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal, The New York Law Journal) has a new technology partner and hopes to boost its readership. If they want to boost their readership, wouldn’t starting a new law school be a better investment? [Talking Biz News]
* Conservative groups are miffed about video of this Democratic party lawyer “attacking” a Republican at the polls and trying to “steal” an election. It seems like he put his hand over the lens of a camera phone, but sure, this is exactly like telling minorities the wrong day to vote. [Bearing Drift]
* The Amanda Knox case has a trade secret component as a battle rages over DNA testing technology. [Trade Secrets Watch / Orrick]
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Crime, Pro Se Litigants, Rape, State Judges
Court Clerk Helps Free Innocent Man and Gets Fired For Her Effort
Proving that judges and prosecutors are wrong may be hazardous to your career. -
9th Circuit, Crime, Death Penalty, Football, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 07.11.13
* Authorities are exhuming the Boston strangler suspect to attempt to match his DNA with a sample recovered from a victim killed almost 50 years ago, highlighting advances in DNA harvesting technology. In other news, COBRA Command claims that Project: Serpentor is moving along nicely. [NY Times] * Ninth Circuit Judge William Fletcher dissents in the case of Deere v. Cullen. Judge Fletcher writes: “The majority holds that a judge suffering from dementia may sentence a man to death.” He’s so unreasonable. [PrawfsBlawg] * The Texas student that Tamara Tabo wrote about this morning, whose arrest for making terrorist threats sparked a Facebook phenomenon, has been released on bail. [The Blaze] * Kash Hill reports on the decision in the Sarah Jones case. The former cheerleader and current paralegal won $338,000 in her defamation suit. [Forbes] * The advent of a new job in the field of sex work: The “Coparazzi,” documenting cop mistreatment of sex workers. This job title is offensive because it suggests that the Paparazzi are doing something admirable. [Jezebel] * An argument for compromising reputation for scholarship money when selecting a law school. As one of the commenters on the article (steponitvelma) put it: “Congratulations. How wonderful.” [The Billfold] * Women are realizing that husbands are crimping their style. [The Careerist] -
Akhil Amar, American Constitution Society (ACS), Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Conferences / Symposia, Constitutional Law, John Paul Stevens, Rape, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Justice Stevens Address: Guys Who Wear Bow Ties...
Justice Stevens defends the decision in Maryland v. King to an audience of folks who could not disagree more.
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Drugs, iPhone, Law Schools, Marijuana, Non-Sequiturs, Patents, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Non-Sequiturs: 06.05.13
* Washington is facing an unexpected issue with its new marijuana laws: training all the drug-sniffing dogs not to go crazy over pot. [Volokh Conspiracy] * Maryland v. King, but with more Betty Draper. [Eff Yeah SCOTUS] * The International Trade Commission has banned the importation of older iPhones and iPads for patent infringement based on a standard-essential patent. Don’t know what that means? Well, it’s kind of a big deal. [FOSS Patents] * A federal judge likens herself to the Hulk because she lengthens sentences over the objections of prosecutors. When we first wrote about Judge Rose, Staci felt the one Senator voting against her confirmation needed a good reason. This is that reason. [Des Moines Register] * Student trolls law professor to get grades posted before she can finish the professor’s book. The race is on! [Josh Blackman's Blog] * As previously mentioned, THE Ohio State University President Gordon Gee was in hot water. Now he’s been s**tcanned retiring. Louisville basketball coach Rick Pitino declared Gee a “pompous ass.” One tipster noted, “Pitino Rick is an expert on the subject of pompous. Restaurant Sex too.” [CBS Sports] * Lots of lawyers are former debaters. If you are looking to give back, there’s a new organization trying to raise money for high school debate in Kalamazoo. I mention this partly because I care about the cause, but mostly because I like writing Kalamazoo. [Go Fund Me] * After reviewing the mindblowingly crazy BARBRI lecturer vid yesterday, Themis sent us a couple of their bar prep vids. Enjoy after the jump… -
Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Constitutional Law, Police, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
The Police Can Take Your DNA Now, and Justice Scalia Doesn't Like It
No affirmative action ruling today, but the Supreme Court did hand down an important criminal procedure decision. -
Crime, Death Penalty, Department of Justice
You Stay Classy, Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Mike Randolph
The lone dissenter from a stay of execution takes the time to channel Glenn Beck in a written opinion. -
Crime, Drinking
Caretaker Either Drinks Or 'Evaporates' $100K Worth Of Whiskey
The last Prohibition-related arrest... kind of. -
Crime, Federal Judges, SCOTUS, Sentencing Law, Supreme Court
Today at the Supreme Court: Moving The Starting Point
What happened at the U.S. Supreme Court today? Our SCOTUS correspondent, Matt Kaiser, offers an eyewitness report. -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Breasts, Dewey & LeBoeuf, Movies, Non-Sequiturs, Partner Issues, Privacy, Racism, Screw-Ups, State Judges, State Judges Are Clowns, Technology
Non-Sequiturs: 08.16.12
* A St. Louis plastic surgeon has been sued for allegedly posting topless photos of her breast augmentation patients online — with their names attached to the photos. It’s just more evidence that sooner or later everyone will be naked on the internet. [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] * Dewey have enough partners to make the Partner Contribution Plan viable? It seems that we do! [Thomson Reuters News & Insight] * Wow, the miracles of technology. Now if you have a paternity dispute that you need to clear up, you don’t need to go on Jerry Springer. All you need to do is visit your local taco truck DNA testing van. [Legal Blog Watch] * You know that scary feeling when it seems you have forgotten something but you can’t figure out what it is? Well, you forgot your toddler — at the grocery store. There, fixed it for you. [Legal Juice] * Oh boy, another misbehaving state judge. This one, from Georgia, allegedly pre-signed arrest warrants and hit on a woman who appeared before him in court. Sounds like quite the stand-up dude. [Atlanta Journal Constitution] * What are the top five movies all law students should watch? Let the arguing over this list begin… [Greedy Associates] * I’m sure there must have been a legitimate reason for a federal judge to compare the civil liberties of Muslim Americans to a “hideous sea monster,” but c’mon, really? [Chicago Tribune] -
Gay, Gay Marriage, John Roberts, Lawyerly Lairs, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Vanessa Bryant
Non-Sequiturs: 07.31.12
* Chief Justice John Roberts, in his capacity as circuit justice for the Fourth Circuit, has given the green light — for the time being — to Maryland’s continued collection of DNA samples from people charged with violent felonies. [New York Times] * Professor Dan Markel isn’t a fan of the practice, arguing that it “is yet another abuse of the presumption of innocence.” [PrawfsBlawg] * In other Supreme Court news, the proponents of Prop 8′s ban on gay marriage have filed a petition for certiorari with the Court. [Arthur Leonard / Leonard Link] * And in other gay marriage news, yet another federal judge — Judge Vanessa Bryant (D. Conn.), a Bush II appointee — has struck down Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act. [Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed] A California litigatrix's lawyerly lair. * Lawyerly Lairs: Emily Alexander’s beautiful, light-filled home is awash in color. There are no hunting prints in sight — even though she used to practice at Sullivan & Cromwell. [California Home + Design] * The mother of a man who died during a police chase has sued the SFPD over her son’s accidentally shooting himself. Opines SFist: “It remains unclear to us why [Kenneth] Harding has been chosen to serve as a martyr, given his not-so-stellar record and the self-inflicted wound.” [SFist] * Poor Professor Campos — does his self-loathing know no bounds? The prominent law professor, one of legal academia’s harshest (and most eloquent) critics, has now turned his powerful fire on baby boomers — of whom he is one. [Salon]