Drunk Driving

  • Morning Docket: 05.06.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 05.06.22

    * Mum’s the word: They’ve been fighting for a ruling like the Alito leak for decades — why so quiet? [HuffPost]

    * Louisiana is going all in on criminalizing uteri. [FOX]

    * States consider laws that will make drunk drivers responsible for paying child support. Please just take an Uber home. [USA Today]

    * Colorado is setting itself up as a refuge for abortion access. [NPR]

    * A brilliant 19-year-old just achieved a JD. Not sure if no bar review made it harder or easier to do. [CBS]

  • Morning Docket: 02.14.22
    Morning Docket

    Morning Docket: 02.14.22

    * Missouri’s “Make Murder Legal Act” was kind enough to not actually become a law. Had us worried there for a bit. [USA Today]

    * Prescriptive law is just what the doctor ordered: Utah has lower rate of crashes after setting a more restrictive blood alcohol limit. [CNN]

    * A new Frontier: word of a big airline merger dropped and law firms are jumping at their cut. [Law.com]

    * Justice pending: A Florida civil rights case hinges on if trasngender folks should be allowed to use the bathrooms they want to. [WUSF]

    * Those who can do, dean: Case Western’s Michael Scharf will be arguing about presumption shifts in insanity defense cases before the International Criminal Court. If TiVo is still a thing, can you record this for me? [News 5 Cleveland]

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  • 7th Circuit, Barack Obama, Basketball, Drinking, Frank Easterbrook, Gay, Law Schools, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Rap, Richard Posner, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court, Television, Videos, YouTube

    Non-Sequiturs: 08.23.13

    * Former federal prosecutor Moe Fodeman of Wilson Sonsini breaks down the case against Walter White. Spoiler: Fodeman thinks Orange Is the New Black for White. [Esquire Culture Blog] * President Obama joins the chorus calling for an end to the 3L year. But when will students take all those "Law and Running a Massive Domestic Spying Operation" seminars? [Buzzfeed] * At the end of this HuffPost Live clip, Elie suggests anti-gay clergy should unsubscribe from the Bravo network. Seems unfair to those who enjoy watching “Real Housewives of the Provo Tabernacle.” [HuffPo Live] * Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant formed a dominant NBA Jam team. But without Grant, Pippen got dismantled by the duo of Easterbrook and Posner (and Williams). [FindLaw] * Jim Beam has resuscitated Seinfeld attorney Jackie Chiles in a new ad campaign about suing bears for stealing honey. It mkaes slightly more sense when you see the whole ad. Slightly. [Hollywood Reporter] * Judge E. Curtissa Colfield seems to have gotten a little drunker than she thought the other night and started berating cops. Maybe drinking is why she had that problem getting those decisions issued on time. [Legal Juice] * Is rapping about crime probative to charges of committing a crime? Both the majority and dissenting opinion are worth a read. [Las Vegas Law Blog] * Speaking of…. Taking the Notorious R.B.G. label seriously, here’s some SCOTUS-themed lyrics to Biggie’s Juicy. Embed after the jump….
  • Blogging, Drinking, DUI / DWI, John Roberts, Law Schools, Media and Journalism, Morning Docket, Pictures, Pornography, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Weddings, Women's Issues

    Morning Docket: 03.05.12

    * Apparently the Roberts Court is unusual in that its elite members lacked opportunities to gain “the most critical judicial virtue: practical wisdom.” Yeah, right. Tell that one to the Wise Latina. [Washington Post]

    * In the wake of the contraception controversy, Rush Limbaugh apologized for calling Georgetown 3L Sandra Fluke a “slut.” He’s so very, very sorry… that he lost some of his advertisers. [The Caucus / New York Times]

    * The powers that be in Massachusetts have decided to show law bloggers a little bit of respect. Now they’ll get to cover judicial proceedings like real, live journalists — press passes and all. [Metro Desk / Boston Globe]

    * Pornography: now with ten percent fewer HIV infections! A Los Angeles city ordinance requiring porn actors to wear condoms during filming will be taking effect today. [L.A. Now / Los Angeles Times]

    * After making two other DWI arrests disappear from her record, former Bronx ADA Jennifer Troiano pleaded guilty to drunk driving last week. It looks like the third time really is the charm. [New York Daily News]

    * New York newlyweds allege that Glamour Me Studio Photoshopped their heads onto naked bodies. Groomzilla Todd Remis must be glad that his wedding photography woes weren’t so graphic. [New York Post]

  • Cars, Crime, Drinking, DUI / DWI, Guns / Firearms

    Drinking, Driving, and Packing

    Maybe we should look at this as a grand test of the “theory” of evolution via natural selection. Eventually, over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years, the gun nuts should really die out, while those who favor sensible gun regulation will live and procreate and prosper. But then again, maybe this […]