Free Speech
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Law Schools
Weird How Quiet The 'Campus Free Speech Crisis' Crowd Has Been About CUNY Law School
It's almost as if their commitment to free speech was entirely one-sided... -
Technology
Montana Won't Be Able To Hit The Finisher On TikTok Without Addressing The Constitution
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 05.18.23
* Fifth Circuit judge scolds attorney for “personal attack” because she accurately described the district court opinion as unprecedented. As Inigo Montoya would put it, “I don’t think that word means what Judge Elrod thinks it means. [Slate]
* After watching Disney’s experience beating up on Florida lawyers, Penguin Random House is starting to sue Florida school districts for banning books. [AP]
* Montana has banned TikTok in a reminder that “free speech” is now limited to punishing students for carrying mean signs during FedSoc events. [Wall Street Journal]
* Deutsche Bank paying $75 million to settle claims that the bank facilitated Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operations. Another win for Boies Schiller Flexner and Edwards Pottinger representing Epstein’s victims. [Reuters]
* Massachusetts US Attorney accused of abuse of power “to achieve a political goal epitomiz[ing] the type of ‘political justice’ that Congress intended to prohibit.” Too bad she wasn’t a judge taking free vacations from parties before the court… she’d be home free by now.[Law360]
* WilmerHale earned 5 percent of its total revenue from Meta, the company you remember as Facebook before they completely retooled to chase a creepy VR chat room that they’ve since killed after costing the company about $13 billion. Which is all to say that Wilmer may want to diversify its revenue streams at this rate. [Bloomberg Law News]
* A discussion of Shadow Docket by Steve Vladeck (affiliate link). [ABA Journal]
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Courts
People Annoying You On Facebook? Block Them. Unless You Are A Government Official, Maybe?
The Supreme Court will take any case to distract us from Clarence Thomas being bankrolled for the last 20 years, huh? -
Law Schools
Stanford Law School Defused Free Speech Crisis By Throwing Minority Students Under The Bus
And then backing that bus over the DEI dean. -
Law Schools
Stanford Law School Moderates May Be The Biggest Snowflakes Of All
Protecting the 'silent middle' from strong opinions might be the worst of all possible law school outcomes. -
Law Schools
Law School Students Make Critical Comments On Social Media And Now THIS Is A 'Free Speech Crisis'
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.27.23
* “This is our third major financial crisis,” said Sullivan’s Mitchell Eitel describing his experience weathering the legal fallout of economic troubles. Remember the 50 years where we didn’t have major bank collapses? Maybe we were all onto something. [Bloomberg Law News]
* Supreme Court to hear more argument about law banning speech about illegal immigration and practically deployed to surveil journalists. [Courthouse News Service]
* “Utah governor: Social media law limiting minors’ access not ‘foolproof.'” I think he meant to say “constitutional.” [Axios]
* Purdue’s online law school seeks permission to send graduates to the bar exam. Because rather than regulate legal education to graduate lawyers who can practice immediately or require a comprehensive exam for any interested potential practitioner, we have BOTH. [Journal Gazette]
* Someone leaked Twitter’s source code online in latest development from clown car central. [Reuters]
* Shearman revenue down 10 percent and partner profits off 17.5 percent. No wonder they were so hot to merge. [American Lawyer]
* New York will take another stab at selecting a Chief Judge. [Law360]
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Technology
Middle School Sued After Getting Stupid About ‘Justice For Lil Pickle’ T-Shirts Worn By Students
Feel free to craft your own 'in a pickle' joke. -
Law Schools
Stanford Law Protects Their Speakers From ‘Institutional Orthodoxy And Coercion’ By Forcing Their Students To Undergo ‘Mandatory Educational Programming’
The letter was a full throated "If you don't like it, just have a counter speaker somewhere else". -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 03.20.23
* What say the Constitution about “True Threats”? I promise this isn’t a spinoff show about vampires and faeries. [The Daily Beast]
* The folks at Volokh aren’t too happy about how the Supreme Court reads its adequate and state ground doctrine. [Reason]
* You aren’t the only one suspicious that Clarence Thomas did a major rehaul of the 2nd Amendment. [Washington Post]
* If Donald Trump gets charged, it’ll take a while before the process really sets in. Bring a good book. [Reuters]
* A Virginia judge went out of his way to show that he knows the law when it comes to embyos. Slave law. This is 2023. [ABA Journal]
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Technology
Yes, The US Government Threatening To Block TikTok Violates The 1st Amendment
From the free-speech-until-china-builds-a-successful-app? department....
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Courts, Law Schools
Judges Are Encouraging Law Schools To Snitch On Students Who Make Use Of Their First Amendment Right To Protest
Next, judges will start shaming student that refuse to just let the cops search their stuff instead of demanding a warrant. -
Law Schools
Federal Judge Calls Stanford Law Students 'Appalling Idiots' After Refusing To Answer Their Questions
Judge Duncan goes to Stanford, 'looking more like a YouTuber storming the Capitol.' -
Law Schools
T14 Law School Embraces Hot New Trend Of Promoting 'Civility' By Inviting Hate Groups To Campus
Law schools keep getting played by these people. -
Biglaw
Biglaw Isn't A Cancel Culture, It's A Business That Cares More About Money Than Your Feelings
If love means never having to say you're sorry, then surely 'cancel culture' means never having to take responsibility. -
Law Schools
Yale Law School Had So Much Fun The First Time, They've Brought Recognized Hate Group Back To Campus!
What could possibly go wrong? -
Law Schools
Free Speech Is The Freedom To Shut Up And Listen To Your Betters, Trump Judge Explains
Judge's campus free speech rhetoric betrays that it's not about balancing viewpoints, but imposing authority. -
Law Schools
Much Ado About Nothing: Law Schools Had An Odd Fixation On Free Speech This Year
I doubt we will be having the Twitter free speech debates this time next year. Not because anyone will be any better informed — I just don't think Twitter will last that much longer.