Guns / Firearms
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Government
Conservatives Have 'Won' The Argument That The Constitution Is Too Flawed To Protect Children
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Small Law Firms
Former Partner Interrupts Law Firm Holiday Party And Starts Shooting
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.06.17
* “They’re not just preparing for a court challenge. They’re prepared to lose.” President Trump has been including severability clauses in some of his most controversial executive orders and proclamations (e.g., Travel Ban 2.0, Travel Ban 3.0, and the transgender military ban). At this rate, he’s on pace to use them more than all of his most recent predecessors combined. [USA Today]
* Special counsel Robert Mueller filed his legal team’s first expenditure report yesterday afternoon, and it’s a doozy. Thus far, $6.7 million has been spent between May 17, 2017, and September 30, 2017, and contrary to popular belief at the White House, the Russia investigation is nowhere near an end. [National Law Journal]
* The Justice Department is now open to regulating guns; we repeat, the Justice Department is now open to regulating guns — or at least parts that can make guns even more deadly than they already are. That said, the DOJ has entered into a rule-making process that will redetermine the legality of bump stock devices. [CNN]
* All has been quiet on the Sedgwick front for about a week, but now we’ve got word that “many” of the failed firm’s lawyers from numerous offices — including San Francisco-based team led by partners Bruce Celebrezze and Alexander Potente — will be joining British insurance firm Clyde & Co in the new year. [American Lawyer]
* In case you missed it, Judge Valarie E. Turner — who allowed a law clerk to wear her robes and preside over cases — was recently forced into retirement after admitting that she’d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and “acknowledg[ing] that she [was] permanently unable to perform her judicial duties.” [Chicago Sun-Times]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 11.06.17
* Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families, friends, and colleagues of the victims of the deadliest church shooting in modern U.S. history, which took place yesterday in Sutherland Springs, Texas. This is the second mass shooting in a little more than one month. [ABC News]
* The Russian election collusion investigation is just getting started, but lawmakers have introduced a nonbinding resolution demanding that special counsel Robert Mueller resign due to his “obvious conflicts of interest.” [POLITICO]
* “Jeff, you need to tell us everything you know about Russia.” Senator Lindsey Graham wants AG Jeff Sessions to testify again before the Senate Judiciary Committee about whether there were any arranged meetings between President Trump’s campaign and Russia. [UPI]
* According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the legal profession lost 1,100 jobs in October, which is depressing news for jobless law school graduates who just found out positive bar exam news. [American Lawyer]
* LSAT or GRE? Thanks to a vote by the ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, it might not matter. If this proposal passes, soon law schools won’t even have to test potential applicants seeking admission. [Law.com]
* Advice for the internet hero who shut down President Trump’s Twitter account on his last day of work: “Don’t say anything and get a lawyer.” Why? He likely violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. [The Hill]
* Todd Macaluso, one of Casey Anthony’s former attorneys, has been found guilty in an international cocaine distribution conspiracy involving a plane load of drugs worth about $13 million. He plans to appeal his conviction. [New York Daily News]
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Supreme Court
How Long Before The Second Amendment Is Perverted To Include The Right To 'Sell' Arms?
You can't count on the Supreme Court to be originalist when it comes to the Second Amendment. -
Guns / Firearms, Justice, Politics
The NRA's Intellectually Dishonest Stand On Bump Stocks, Explained
The NRA hopes you fell asleep during Admin Law. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 10.06.17
* The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to toss the travel ban case on mootness grounds — and to scrub the lower-court rulings against it from the books. [How Appealing]
* Meanwhile, the District of Columbia won’t take the fight over its concealed-carry law to SCOTUS, fearing that the Court might just make the situation worse if called to rule on gun rights. [Washington Post]
* At age 86, Marty Lipton of Wachtell Lipton is still in the mix, issuing influential client memos on important issues of corporate law. [Big Law Business]
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robes? Zoran (Zoki) Tasic, a former Seventh Circuit staff attorney, calls out Judge Richard Posner over alleged errors in the judge’s new book (affiliate link) about the treatment of pro se litigants. [How Appealing]* Support staff at Hogan Lovells seem to love the firm’s buyout offers; the firm’s voluntary-retirement program attracted even more interest than expected. (Expect more on this later.) [Law.com]
* What does the future hold for the Obama administration’s proposed changes to overtime rules? Senators seek guidance from Cheryl Stanton, the former Alito clerk and Ogletree Deakins partner who enjoyed smooth sailing at her recent confirmation hearings to serve as head of the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division. [Bloomberg BNA]
* In other news about the fate of Obama-era regulations, it looks like the Trump administration will be rolling back the federal requirement for employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans, expanding exemptions for religious objectors. [New York Times]
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Guns / Firearms, Supreme Court
The Supreme Gun Lobby Makes Us Afraid To Even Defend The Gun Laws We Have
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Guns / Firearms
Silencer Bill Silenced (Again) But You Can Still Totally Buy Silencers
You realize that this Congressional fight is about taxes and not your safety, right? -
Guns / Firearms, Violence
The Next Gun Massacre Is Coming
If past is prologue, death in the form of a gunman will happen again, very soon. -
Deaths, Solo Practitioners
Attorney Fatally Wounded During Las Vegas Mass Shooting
A friend said she was 'singing and dancing to country music when she was shot in the head.' -
Free Speech, In-House Counsel
Senior Attorney Fired For Cruel Commentary On Las Vegas Shooting
She deserved to get fired. She doesn't deserve to become a pawn. -
Crime, Violence
Our Gun Sickness In One Sentence
Nevada has some of the most permissive gun laws, but we know that ain't changing.
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Deaths, Law Schools, Police
Federal Inquiry Requested After Police Officer Who Shot Law Student To Death Escapes Indictment
The Case Western Law community believes 'bias-based policing' may have been a factor in his death. -
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Next Week, Swords Are Legal To Carry Down The Street In Texas
New law brings Texas into the Middle Ages. -
Guns / Firearms, State Judges
Judge Shot In Ambush-Style Attack Outside Courthouse
The judge is expected to survive. -
Biglaw, Crime
Kirkland & Ellis Partner Shot In Armed Robbery
He was medically evacuated from Turks and Caicos and is now in stable condition. -
Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 07.26.17
* “[W]e will see what happens, time will tell, time will tell.” President Trump has reiterated how “very disappointed” he is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions decided to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, but hasn’t publicly stated in so many words that he wants to fire the AG. For what it’s worth, it didn’t take very long for time to tell what happened with James Comey, Marc Kasowitz, and Sean Spicer. [CNN]
* Which in-house officials make the most money? Big Law Business took a look at the summary compensation tables from the 500 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue to figure out the answer. Take a look at the list of the 30 highest earners, gasp at their eye-popping compensation, and then wonder why you haven’t decided to move in-house yet. [Big Law Business]
* A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit struck down Washington, D.C., regulations which required that residents prove they had a “good reason to fear injury” in order to obtain a concealed-carry permit for firearms, ruling that the carrying of firearms was a “core” Second Amendment right. The District may seek an en banc review of the decision. [BuzzFeed]
* “There is not a law firm function that happens without alcohol” Do law firms enable alcoholism? In a word, yes — and the fact that we still have to ask ourselves this when one-third of attorneys have admitted that they drink too much and even more have admitted that they have a serious drinking problem is simply appalling. [Am Law Daily]
* The bar exam is now well underway, and those whose fates are now in the hands of the bar examiners have taken to Twitter to unleash their anxieties via humorous tweets. Here are 10 of the best bar exam-related tweets from before the test began. The tweets from Day 1 are a little more… aggressive. [Law.com]
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Deaths
Lawyer Shot To Death In His Own Home By Mentally Ill Assailant
The suspect had been 'obsessed' with the attorney for years. -
Deaths, Plaintiffs Firms
Plaintiffs' Firm Support Staff Member Shot To Death During Morning Commute
May her killer be swiftly brought to justice in the wake of her brutal slaying.