Education / Schools
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ACLU, Education / Schools, Facebook, Free Speech, Kids, Rank Stupidity, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology
When Will We Stop Punishing Children for Being Children?
The ACLU is defending three teenage girls who were expelled for saying on Facebook that they wanted to kill people. Here's why they shouldn't have been expelled… -
Education / Schools, Insider Trading, Law Revue, Law Revue Video Contest, Non-Sequiturs, Religion, Technology
Non-Sequiturs: 04.19.12
* In America, secret agents drive awesome spy cars. In Soviet Russia, awesome cars spy on you. Actually, cars spy on Americans, too. [Not so Private Parts/Forbes] * An accused inside trader used his ill-gotten gains to buy a jet, four houses, and an island help the homeless. The government is still prosecuting him. Sir, with all due respect, you are doing it wrong. [Dealbreaker] * The Vatican is going to crack down on radical nuns. I can’t even think of a good joke because radical and nun so obviously don’t belong in the same sentence. Unless you’re having some sort of nun surfing contest and the Mother Superior catches a really sick wave. [BBC News] * I frequently get upset with schools that punish students too quickly and harshly for relative nonissues. But hacking into the school attendance system and “selling” absences — yeah, that’s probably not okay. [Bay Citizen] * Let me explain to you how this works: you see, the corporations finance the law firms, and then the law schools go out… and the corporations sit there in their… in their corporation buildings, and… and, and see, they’re all corporation-y… and they make money… Matt Damon! [Centre Daily] * Don’t forget to vote for your favorite ATL Law Revue entry. Also, tune in tomorrow to see our picks for honorable mention. [Above the Law] - Sponsored
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Education / Schools, Old People, Student Loans
Student Debt: It's Not Just For Young People Anymore
There’s a great story in the Washington Post this morning about how senior citizens are still struggling to pay off their educational debt. Senior. Citizens. The story says that collectively Americans over 60 owe $36 billion in student debt. That figure includes seniors who have co-signed on loans for their children or grand-children. And yes, […]
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Education / Schools
Nanny State Ban on Words Is Lazy Educating By New York State
I wonder if "lazy" is one of the words the NYDOE banned. Not because it's controversial, but because it so aptly describes their policies... -
Education / Schools, Free Speech, Kids, Privacy, Rank Stupidity, Technology, Twittering
Why the F*** Was This High School Student Expelled for Tweeting the F-Word?
An Indiana high school student was expelled for a 2:30 a.m tweet from his home -- a tweet that was simply a juvenile exploration on the word “f***." You have to be f***ing kidding me.… -
Education / Schools, Job Searches, Law Schools, New Jersey, New York Times, Unemployment
Quote of the Day: Hey, At Least He's at a 'T14' Law School
You shouldn't go to law school, right? Well, here's a counterargument: what else are you going to do with yourself? Class of 2011 college graduates are suffering massive unemployment. -
Education / Schools, Gay, Lawsuit of the Day
Lawsuit of the Day: No Gay Prom Royalty for This High School
It looks like one high school in Georgia wants to keep students’ memories of prom as heterosexual as possible. Let’s take a look at the allegations made in our Lawsuit of the Day.... -
2nd Circuit, Education / Schools, Kids, Rank Stupidity
This Ten Year Old Told a Bad Joke, But Was It Bad Enough To Earn Him a Six-Day Suspension?
It was completely absurd when a 10-year-old was suspended from school for six days because he unsuccessfully tried to be funny and drew kind of a violent picture in class. Yesterday, the Second Circuit upheld the dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the boy's parents five years ago, but the dissenting judge's opinion showed at least someone behind the bench still understands what it means to be a kid… - Sponsored
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Abortion, Biglaw, Chadbourne & Parke, Education / Schools, Money, Morning Docket, Police, Rape
Morning Docket: 03.21.12
* Here’s a reason why Proskauer Rose and Chadbourne & Parke might skip out on spring bonuses this year: millions of dollars worth of blowback from Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme. [Thomson Reuters News & Insight]
* And speaking of spring bonuses, a lot of people noticed that Sullivan & Cromwell seems to have misled associates. “Just because it hasn’t happened yet, doesn’t mean it won’t.” Yeah, right. [Am Law Daily]
* Next up in the war on women: a senator from Idaho thinks that women are such strumpets that they might be lying their way into abortions by claiming rape. Because that’s not incredibly insensitive. [Washington Post]
* Apparently George Zimmerman, the man accused of fatally shooting a boy armed with a pack of Skittles, wanted to become a police officer. Looks like it’s time to kiss that dream goodbye. [Los Angeles Times]
* Give me your lunch money, kid! Teachers aren’t supposed to be bullying students, but that’s what one Baltimore mother is alleging in a $200K lawsuit against the city’s school board. [New York Daily News]
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Deaths, Education / Schools, Privacy, Trials
BREAKING: Verdict in the Dharun Ravi Case
Dharun Ravi has been charged with a number of counts of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation because of the events surrounding Clementi's suicide. On March 16, the jury reached its verdict.... -
Crime, Education / Schools, Politics, White-Collar Crime
Federal Investigators Pay Visit to Rich 'Honkey' Lawyer
Remember David Shulick, the Philadelphia lawyer who filed the famous "honkey" lawsuit against two airlines? Well, he's back in the news. -
6th Circuit, ACLU, Education / Schools, Gay, Gay Marriage, Religion
Should Therapists Be Able to Turn Away Clients on Moral Grounds?
Over the weekend, Mark Oppenheimer wrote an interesting New York Times piece about the Sixth Circuit’s recent ruling in Ward v. Polite (PDF). In that case, Judge Jeffrey Sutton — noted feeder judge, judicial hottie, and possible SCOTUS nominee in a Republican administration — handed a (partial) victory to Julea Ward, an evangelical Christian who […] -
Education / Schools, Law Schools
Is Business School the Answer?
It’s been a while since we had a good Xtranormal video. The So You Want To Go To Law School sensation inspired a number of predictable spinoffs. But that mediocre flow eventually subsided. But Xtranormal is still a pretty funny way of getting your point across. A tipster came across a good one over at […]
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Canada, Education / Schools, Law Schools, LSAT
The Early Numbers on Law School Applications
Somebody got a hold of a password-protected report from LSAC that discusses the state of law school applications. Do you want to hear the good news? It's too early to know the full scope of this law school application season, but the early numbers suggest that law school applications are going to be down -- way down.... -
Ann Althouse, Books, Crowell & Moring, Department of Justice, Education / Schools, Emily Goodman, Musical Chairs, Non-Sequiturs, Office of Legal Counsel, Student Loans
Non-Sequiturs: 01.12.12
* Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s lawyer has a challenge for you: “I defy you to tell the difference between a naked prostitute and any other naked woman.” [Dealbreaker] * It’s not often that Cravath partners leave for other firms, but it happens. Jeffrey Smith, former head of the environmental practice at Cravath, recently decamped for Crowell & […] -
Biglaw, Education / Schools, Job Searches, Law Schools, LLMs, Student Loans, Tax Law
The Value of the LL.M. Degree? Still Low
Every so often, people ask us about the "value" of getting an LL.M. degree. Our answer has remained pretty consistent. Is it a tax LL.M. from Georgetown or NYU? No? Then save your money and buy something valuable like gold or drugs. The National Law Journal made that EXTREMELY OBVIOUS point this week (again).... -
Education / Schools, Fashion, Fashion Is Fun, Free Speech, Hotties, Kids, Pictures, Porn Names, Sex
Sexy Teen Fights for First Amendment Freedoms Over Slutty Yearbook Photo
School administrators are trying to ban a teenager's picture from the yearbook. They say that her attire in her photo of choice violates the school's dress code, but why? Probably because the photo in question features the teenager posing a bit too provocatively for a girl who just turned 18. She's considering taking legal action against the school for trampling on her right to free expression. So who is this mystery girl? What does her scandalous yearbook photo look like? Keep reading for pictures and video of this too-sexy-for-high-school, First Amendment freedom fighter.... -
Benchslaps, Education / Schools, Federal Judges, Law Professors, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Sonia Sotomayor
Outsiders Criticize Law Schools, But Will Change Ever Come?
While many of the law school deans and other administrators at the AALS conference acknowledged problems with the system, most of the actual critiquing came from people with no power to change it. Media members criticized law schools, judges criticized law schools, outgoing deans that shamelessly profiteered off of unwitting law students criticized law schools -- and the people who could actually change their systems dutifully listened. But despite all of the critiques, there weren't a lot of schools that seemed ready to institute sweeping change to the business of educating lawyers.... -
Disability Law, Drugs, Education / Schools, Health Care / Medicine, Law Schools, Reader Polls
Is Using Adderall to Get Through Exams the Worst Thing in the World?
A little while back, we asked how many of you had tried Adderall, the ADHD drug that some students use to get a boost around study time. A whopping 30% of you said you had tried the drug and 70% of you are lying. But now let's ask the fun question. Is using Adderall that big of a deal? -
American Bar Association / ABA, Law Schools, New York Times
Revenge Is Best Served... Quickly: ABA DENIES Accreditation To School That Talked To The New York Times
Over the weekend, the New York Times unleashed a feature article about the role of the American Bar Association in keeping the cost of legal education absurdly high. The school profiled in that article was Duncan Law School, which was seeking provisional accreditation from the ABA. The article came out in print on Sunday. Everybody talked about it on Monday. And today, on Tuesday, the ABA denied Duncan its provisional accreditation....