Gitmo
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 09.30.21
* Loophole in Massachusetts law could leave Lyft and Uber drivers making $4.82 an hour. That would drive me crazy. [Business Insider]
* Two narcotics officers arrested for dealing fentanyl and accepting bribes. I’m sure they did so in self-defense, somehow. [Whio]
* Appeals court may be deciding if Guantanamo Bay detainees have due process rights. Prepare your Con Law outlines! [WaPo]
* Seattle continues to test if voting coupons could be the answer to funny money driving politics. [The Nation]
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Government
Judge Tatel Renders GITMO Verdict: It's A Sh*tshow
The effort to pass laws to bar alleged terrorists from the U.S. court system so they're forever locked up on extra-judicial island is pretty much a failure. - Sponsored
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 12.29.15
* The legalese in user agreements is no joke. Fortunately there’s a cartoon — yup, you heard right, a cartoon — to make sense of the iTunes agreement. [Slate]
* Science says we should let go of our workplace grudges. I guess “science” never spent Christmas Eve redacting Excel spreadsheets so a production could be made by midnight. [Quartz]
* The Tennessee judge who characterized the Supreme Court as wielding an “iron fist and limp wrist” over Obergefell… yeah, he got reprimanded. [Legal Profession Blog]
* What the hell is going on at University of Louisville Law School. [Tax Prof Blog]
* The bureaucratic bulls**t behind Obama’s inability to close the doors on Gitmo. [Huffington Post]
* The best (worst?) of the right-wing blogosphere. Be sure to take your blood pressure medication before you click. [Village Voice]
* The crime of being young, black and free. [The Root]
* Congrats to Texas’s Tweeter Laureate, Justice Don Willett, on this latest positive press! [San Antonio Express-News]
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Barack Obama, D.C. Circuit, Guantanamo Bay, Politics, Prisons, War on Terror
Who Cares If Gitmo Detainees Starve to Death?
Is forced feeding a form of torture? What does President Obama think? -
9/11, Barack Obama, Bloomberg, Books, Guantanamo Bay, Military / Military Law, Politics, Trials, Videos, War on Terror
Is It Time To Close Guantanamo Bay?
One retired admiral thinks so, and a new book by a Wall Street Journal reporter provides supporting evidence. -
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Education / Schools, Guns / Firearms, Kasowitz Benson, Non-Sequiturs, Pornography, Pro Se Litigants, Women's Issues
Non-Sequiturs: 01.22.13
* Two guys, one gun, three wounded. Definitely what the Founders intended. [KENS 5] * Here’s the affirmance of the dismissal of Greg Berry’s $77 million lawsuit against Kasowitz Benson. Fun times. [Appellate Division, First Department] * Ex-girlfriends are uniting to go after a revenge porn site. If this stupid site ruins Section 230 for everybody, I’m going to be pissed. [Jezebel] * Not that anybody should need the help, but here is another reason to hate lawyers. [She Negotiates / Forbes] * Honestly, I kind of forgot Gitmo was still open. What with all the talk of having a progressive president, I kind of assumed that this would have been a promise he kept and stuff. [How Appealing] * Speaking of things I’ve forgotten about, say hello to the 27th Amendment. [The Volokh Conspiracy] * It looks like the world has forgotten about Atari. [Bloomberg Law]