Gene Nichol

Take note, potential students: at UNC Law, saying that you support civil rights is "out of order."

The state legislature plans to gut funding for the UNC School of Law. This is a bad idea.

* The North Carolina legislature’s war on UNC Law School continues. The Senate just proposed a $3 million budget cut. Tarheels adjust by ending Civ Pro right before International Shoe. [The Herald Sun]

* U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer enjoys living dangerously. When the D.C. Circuit tells her the CIA needs to disclose more about drone policy, she… tells the CIA to keep its mouth shut. AC/DC has a song about that behavior. [Politico]

* Most attention is, justifiably, fixed on marriage equality and health care, but there are some huge pending decisions we’re overlooking. [Slate]

* Will Chief Justice Roberts save Obamacare again? [Mother Jones]

* Speaking of SCOTUS, Professor Ilya Somin and Constitutional Accountability Center chief counsel Elizabeth Wydra talk Supreme Court in this podcast. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]

* Career hiccups begin with you. So, you know, stop doing that to yourself. [Corporette]

* Why have car insurance in this case? A fair question. [Legal Juice]

* If you didn’t make it to see David speak with a panel of distinguished guests at the Fix the Court/Politico Supreme Court event this week, here’s the video! [Politico]

* A special committee of the Board of Governors at UNC Law is trying to shut down its Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity because its butthurt that the center spends it time talking about “poverty.” UNC Dean Boger thinks this is some bulls**t and says so. [UNC School of Law]

* Becoming a patent lawyer has been one of the safest bets in an otherwise atrocious market. That may change. Study predicts a huge drop off in job openings. [The Faculty Lounge]

* If you’re a radical law student, you’ll want to read this. [National Lawyers Guild]

* So many social media contests are illegal. So be careful. [Grow]

* Good to see scandals about fudging employment data aren’t confined to the U.S. [Legal Cheek]

We love internecine warfare at law schools and in other academic settings. As the old saying goes — our cursory Googling doesn’t immediately generate the exact wording or source, so we’ll paraphrase — fights in academia are so vicious because the stakes are so small. As Hillary and Barack do battle in Virginia today, so […]